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Image from ‘Fair Diana. By “Wanderer” … With illustrations by G. Bowers. [A novel.]’, 003846960 via the Mechanical Curator, British Library S ession eight already! Today we will again offer two professional points of view on the relationships between libraries and publishers.

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**“**In an attempt to make the debate around the costs of open access publishing more evidence based”, the Readme file (14th March 2013) signed by Robert Kiley says, the Wellcome Trust released into the public domain a dataset including details of its open access spend in 2012-2013, “as reported by UK institutions and the Trust’s Major Overseas Programmes in receipt of an OA block grant”. As I wrote yesterday, Cameron Neylon subsequently

[Updated. I replaced the spreadsheet on figshare twice as a couple of publisher names had to be corrected. This left a version with 101 unique publisher names –note that some might still be subsumable to other publisher names in the set. I have also corrected the first bar chart and added another one two on this post. Please bear in mind there might still be errors in the source data.

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Y esterday we had the first day of the Promoting Discoverability of African Scholarship workshop in Nariboi, Keyna, organised by the OpenUCT Initiative in collaboration with the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It was a fantastic opportunity to meet colleagues from different countries (Kenya, Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, USA…) doing incredibly exciting research and scholarly communications work.

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