Scholarly Communications Digest

Here are 10 items of interest from this week:

• Congress to Renew Open Textbook Pilot Grant Program with $7 Million Appropriation | SPARC
• FORCE2019 Conference Presentations | Zenodo
• How to Advocate for the Research You’re Already Doing | Inside Higher Ed
• International Elsevier deals
  • Leaked Dutch Contract with Elsevier Raises Significant Alarm Bells – SPARC
  • Elsevier deal with France disappoints open-access advocates | Science
• MIT’s Framework for Publisher Contracts | MIT Libraries
• Plan S
  • Plan S: from principles to implementation | cOAlitionS
  • ‘Transformative journal’ rules allow titles Plan S reprieve | Times Higher Education (THE)
  • Will the Hybrid Journal Be Transformed by Plan S? | The Scholarly Kitchen
• Public Domain
  • Celebrate Public Domain Day with Events Around the World Creative Commons
  • The Public Domain Line is Moving Again – One Year Later Internet Archive Blogs
• Possible Executive Order on Open Access
  • Politics and Open Access The Scholarly Kitchen
  • Possible Executive Order on Open Access Alarms Academic Publishers EdSurge News
  • Academic Publishers, and a U.S. Senator, Resist Possible Policy Change on Open Access EdSurge News
  • SPARC Statement on Rumored New White House Open Access Policy SPARC
• Ten best practices for faceted search | Jeroen Bosman, Utrecht University Library
• Textbook Spending Down | Inside Higher Ed