Dear all,

Hereby the latest news from the FIM4L working group.

We have published our second version of the recommendations this year. After a public consultation and a final edit we were able to publish it last November on Zenodo. This version is aligned with the REFEDS namings of entity categories. And especially the main principle 4 is improved and updated to latest developments. Please share it in your networks.

Earlier this year we had a series of three talks with Elsevier where we looked for the possibility of what we called "agile access", meaning that you can choose whether to have pseudonymous or anonymous access. Right on the spot/website and whenever you want. That's a hard question. But the talks gave us very interesting findings. You can read this here on this blogpost of LIBER.

Last week Jiri and I presented a live log-in show at the LIBER Winter Event in Amsterdam. This was meant for LIBER members, especially of working groups. We showed the login behavior of Elsevier ScienceDirect and EBSCOhost. And we showed the possibilities of "agile" (pseudonymous/anonymous) login, and background processes. It's worth it to report on this. Perhaps a blogpost will follow. Keep up with our LIBER Working Group website to follow the news and soon find a link to at least the presentation.

I wish you all a lovely Holiday season!

Jos

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