Dear readers,

Welcome to the fifth edition of the HIRMEOS newsletter. The HIRMEOS newsletter keeps you updated about developments in the project High Integration of Research Monographs in the European Open Science infrastructure (HIRMEOS).

In this issue:

*   Our new animation video 
*   The fact sheet of the entity-fishing service
*   Recording and presentations of the HIRMEOS webinar on entity-fishing for digital platforms
*   The report on the workshop "Research evaluation and identification services" at the University of Turin
*  The new strategic partnership between PKP and EKT
*  Upcoming talks and presentations on HIRMEOS and OPERAS

Sincerely,

Andrea Bertino

Goettingen State and University Library

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OPERAS-D Conference: “Open Scholarly Communication in Europe. Addressing the Coordination Problem” , 31 May – 1 June, Athens. Here the programm.

107. Bibliothekartag, Berlin, Germany, 12-15 June:
Roundtable on Bücher im Open Access? Wie wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken das Verlegen von Monographien unterstützen, with Margo Bargheer (SUB Göttingen), Andrea Bertino (SUB Göttingen), Isabelle Meinecke (Hamburg University Press)

ELPUB 2018, The 22nd International Conference on Electronic Publishing. Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure, 22-24 June, Toronto, Canada. Three talks on HIRMEOS and OPERAS:
1)  Shared infrastructure for next-generation books: HIRMEOS by Brian Hole (Ubiquity Press) Francesco Devirgilio (Ubiquity Press) and Chealsye Bowley (Ubiquity Press);
2) Collecting inclusive usage metrics for Open Access publications: The HIRMEOS Project by Javier Arias (Open Book Publishers);
3.)The value of network sustainability: Why we join research infrastructures by Elisabeth Heinemann (MWS).

LIBER Annual conference 2018, Lille, France 4-6 July,
Presentation: Mind the gap -- how to integrate research monographs into the ecosystem of open science by Margo Bargheer (SUB Göttingen).

Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, Oxford (UK) 2-6 July.
Presentation of HIRMEOS at the poster session by Andrea Bertino (SUB Göttingen)