by David Nelson, Chair, Collection Development and Management, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University I think all library websites stink. Now that I have your attention, I can retract a bit the bluntness of that statement. But, I don’t think there will be...
A couple of articles have come to our attention that bring to the fore some of the thorny issues surrounding open access and peer review. The first article Critics Say Sting on Open-Access Journals Misses Larger Point was written by Paul Basken, senior reporter for...
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) continue to cause lively discussions on campuses across the country. This recent article by Ry Rivard entitled “MOOC-Skeptical Provosts” highlights an effort by provosts of Big 10 universities and the University of Chicago to make...
Good Question! Why are shares of B&N returning 34.5 percent over the last 12 months if books, their main stock in trade, are on life support? There is no denying that on the surface things are not looking good for the bookstore giant as it continues to suffer...
A number of you may have read Information Today's article F1000Research Launches Following Successful Beta-Testing Phase reporting the successful launch of F1000Research's new Open Science publishing program for life scientists. According to the article this new...
As many of you will remember, the recent Charleston Conference ended with a Hyde Park Corner Debate between Rick Anderson and Derek Law over the proposition that the traditional research library is dead. After a feisty debate, Rick prevailed when the audience vote to...
The 12 Planets and the Unidentified Flying Elephant By Sue Wiegand Okay, so the elephant isn’t really flying, but the six blind monks in the old story who were trying to identify it based on different parts of its anatomy (“It’s like a tree branch!” cried the one who...
As many of you know the Finch Committee Report and its support of "gold" open access has gotten a lot of press both pro and con. The battle lines continue to be drawn. InfoDOCKET reports an article in the Guardian that notes the UK government "is to unveil...
MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES arXiv announces new policy on ChatGPT and similar tools According to the arXiv.org blog "The recent release of AI technology that generates new text has raised serious questions among the research community....
MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES arXiv announces new policy on ChatGPT and similar tools According to the arXiv.org blog "The recent release of AI technology that generates new text has raised serious questions among the research community....
OhioLINK and De Gruyter reach agreement for eBooks from 6 university presses According to KnowledgeSpeak, "OhioLINK and De Gruyter have announced an agreement to provide OhioLINK’s 89 member libraries with newly published frontlist eBooks from University of...
American Society for Microbiology Is Now Using CCC's RightsLink for Scientific Communications According to Information Today, "CCC announced that “the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), has adopted RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC) to manage its...
NORTH OER Librarian, Bentley University, Waltham, MA Data Reference & Collections Librarian - New York University, Division of Libraries – New York, NY Assistant Director, Prospect Research & Management, Salem State University, Salem, MA Research and Teaching...
