Column Editor: Kyle K. Courtney (Director of Copyright & Information Policy, Harvard University) V35#5 Against the Grain QUESTION FROM A CIRCULATION LIBRARIAN: The Final Order was issued by the district court in the Open Libraries case, Hachette v....
Carefully Selected by Your Crack Staff of News Sleuths Column Editor: Bruce Strauch (The Citadel, Emeritus) V35#5 Against the Grain Enduring Prep Sperry Topsiders, cable knits, popped collars on polo shirts, all remain the rage. Nostalgia for a former time;...
By Rosemary Meszaros (Professor Emerita, Government Documents and Law Librarian, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY) Column Editor: Lesley Rice Montgomery, MLIS (Catalog Librarian, Tulane University Libraries’ Technical Services Department) V35#5...
Column Editor: David Parker (Publisher and Founder, Lived Places Publishing; Phone: 201-673-8784) V35#5 Against the Grain My introduction to academic streaming video occurred in 2013 when I joined Alexander Street Press (ASP). My earliest career experience...
Column Editor: Steve Rosato (Senior Manager, OverDrive Academic, Cleveland, OH 44125) V35#5 Against the Grain Digital audiobook checkouts across the OverDrive Academic global network of colleges and universities have increased by 53 percent year-over-year (Jan-Aug...
By Amie D. Freeman (Scholarly Communication and Open Initiatives Librarian, University of South Carolina Libraries, 1322 Greene St., Columbia, SC 29208; Phone: 803-777-8280) and Lance DuPre (Digital Repositories Development Librarian, University of South Carolina...
ALA Council on Accreditation (COA) Announces 2023 ALA Standards for Accreditation of Master’s Programs in Library and Information Studies (via ALA) "The American Library Association Committee on Accreditation (CoA) of the American Library Association (ALA) is pleased...
R&D Expenditures at U.S. Universities Increased by $8 Billion in FY 2022 According to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), research and development spending by academic institutions totaled $97.8 billion in FY 2022, an increase of...
The best new e-readers of 2023 Good eReader observers that "The year 2023 is drawing to a close and there has been enough e-readers and e-notes launched to keep us engaged all year through. However, as we approach the end of another exciting year, it is also time to...
Research Solutions Announces Acquisition of scite According to this press release "Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS), a trusted partner providing cloud-based workflow solutions to accelerate research for R&D-driven organizations, today announced their...
11-24-23 Just located the video of Charleston Conference at the Frankfurt Book Fair (Oct.2023, First panel moderated by Sven Fund, on Research Integrity: Technology, Trust, and Transparency with Panelists Vivian Berghahn (Berghahn Books), Peter Brantley (UC...
