By Tom Gilson (Associate Editor, Against the Grain) and Katina Strauch (Editor, Against the Grain) Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 Mitchell Davis ATG: Mitchell, after selling BookSurge to Amazon in 2005 and then working for them for a...
By Anne Osterman (VIVA Director) and Genya O’Gara (Viva Deputy Director) and Sophie Rondeau (Assessment & E-Resources Program Analyst) Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 VIVA, Virginia’s academic library consortium (https://vivalib.org/),...
By Frank Vrancken Peeters (CEO, Springer Nature) www.springernature.com Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 Note From Your Editor: Do you have a point of view or comment to share with us at ATG? We are introducing this new column “Expert Commentaries from...
By Sandra Bozarth (Interim Dean, Stiern Library, CSUB) and Amanda Grombly (Collection Development and Management Coordinator, Stiern Library, CSUB) Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) has actively...
By Marta Bladek (Associate Librarian for Public Services, The Lloyd Sealy Library, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York) Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 Finals Events In Academic Libraries Each exam period, libraries offer a host of...
By Jeffrey M. Mortimore (Discovery Services Librarian, Georgia Southern University) and Dawn (Nikki) Cannon-Rech (Georgia Southern University) Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 Abstract This paper addresses how librarians at a mid-sized R2 university in...
12-1-23 Derek Law presents Darrell Gunter with the Swamp Fox award Darrell Gunter won the Whova most active member in the community leaderboard competition and was awarded a stuffed Swamp Fox (named after the restaurant in the Francis Marion). Plus many...
12-1-23 Derek Law presents Darrell Gunter with the Swamp Fox award Darrell Gunter won the Whova most active member in the community leaderboard competition and was awarded a stuffed Swamp Fox (named after the restaurant in the Francis Marion). Plus many...
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...
