The Charleston Conference — Trailblazing the Return to In-Person Events
Interview with Leah Hinds, ExecDir of Charleston Hub, reflecting on preparations for holding the Charleston Conference in-person as well as virtual. @chsconf @lisalibrarian
Revisiting: Theory of the E-book
Joe Esposito revisits his 2012 post on the unstated theory of the e-book, which assumes that a book consists only of its text and can be manipulated without regard to the nature and circumstances of its creation. This is only one theory of many, but it is now the prevailing one.
Revisiting — The Tyranny of Unintended Consequences: Richard Poynder on Open Access and the Open Access Movement
Looking back at Richard Poynder’s in-depth analysis of the state of open access. What’s changed since then?
Subscribe to Open (S2O): An Interview Post in Two Parts (Part 2)
Robert Harington interviews a number of experts with a few burning questions on the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model in a two part post, part two appearing here.
Subscribe to Open (S2O): An Interview Post in Two Parts (Part 1)
Robert Harington interviews a number of experts with a few burning questions on the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model in a two part post, part one appearing here:
Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing
This substantive work from John B. Thompson provides a historical overview and analysis of technological and legal challenges to publishing practices in the 21st century.
A Media Empire for the (Public) Library? OverDrive Acquires Kanopy
Danielle Cooper and Roger Schonfeld analyze OverDrive’s purchase of the streaming video platform Kanopy.
Out of Office, Meet the Linda Lindas
We’re off through the holiday weekend. In the meantime, meet your favorite new band courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library.
Clarivate to Acquire ProQuest
Clarivate to Acquire ProQuest: analysis by Roger Schonfeld
Friday Video: A Quiet Place II… Study
The BYU Library’s latest humorous promotional video is out, and (if we do say so ourselves) it’s an instant classic.
Global Trends in Open Access: Themes from Africa, Asia and Latin America
A recent Scholarly Kitchen webinar on global open access shared perspectives from Latin America, Asia and Africa. Arianna Becerril García, Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou, Vrushali Dandawate and Siân Harris share key themes
Guest Post — Scaffolding a Shift to a Values-driven Open Books Ecosystem
Emily Farrell from MIT Press discusses how collective open book models offer a chance to help many stakeholders across academic publishing share expertise to make processes easier, costs lower, and access to knowledge more collaborative.
Revisiting: Challenges for Academics in the Global South — Resource Constraints, Institutional Issues, and Infrastructural Problems
Revisiting a 2018 post discussing that for social science and humanities researchers in many parts of the world there are significant barriers to conducting and sharing research, in some cases more so than for science and medicine. In this revisited guest post, Dr. Naveen Minai provides a perspective as a gender studies researcher in Pakistan.
New Open Access Business Models — What’s Needed to Make Them Work?
A look at a session from last week’s CHORUS Forum that discussed new open access business models — what does it take to make them work?
Guest Post — Building the Last Mile: A Plan for Bringing the Expanding Universe of Digital Primary Sources into Classrooms
Getting digitized primary source materials into the classroom requires an open dialogue among researchers, teachers, and archivists. A workshop from historians of business shows how.