25 March 2025 — Sylla, an innovative platform empowering libraries to advance open & affordable educational resources at scale, is excited to announce the expansion of its collaboration with Coventry University.

Read our latest case study with Deakin University. Where Deakin and Sylla partnered around how to enhance open educational resource (OER) identification. Read the case study here.

Earlier this week, Clarivate announced a shift in strategy and that it will “phase out one-time perpetual purchases of digital collections, print and digital books for libraries.”. Full press release here. In a move that has widespread implications for the wider sector, libraries and their workflows, as highlighted well here. Here’s how we can help libraries today:

Four months ago we launched Sylla. Following a year of preparatory work, tinkering and many conversations with our pilot partners we felt ready and opened it up to the wider sector. In 2024 we entered the real world, ready to engage more widely with HigherEd and educators, exploring whether we could help them save precious time and costs. Here we briefly look back on these first couple months and our progress since.

In our most recent article in Against the Grain you can learn more about our vision on how we can move from promise to wide-scale adoption for Open and Affordable Educational Resources.