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Isn’t Leakage Good for Libraries?

Leakage has strengthened libraries’ negotiating position with respect to content providers. The emerging syndication model syndication offers libraries the opportunity to provide dramatically improve the research experience for their users — with a number of risks as well, including the prospect of substantially reducing their leverage at the negotiating table.

Guest Post — The Library is the Brand

Libraries provide vital digital services to their host institutions. If these services carry clear library identity branding, it strengthens the library’s position in the university and enables it to secure the budget and political capital necessary to do its work.

Of Paywalls and Proxies: The Buzz about Access at ER&L 2019

This year’s ER&L conference was abuzz with the threats and solutions for digital access in libraries.

An Unlikely Library of Obsolete Technologies

A recycling center in New York has become the go-to library for film and television studios looking for vintage electronic props.

Guest Post — Protecting Patron Privacy in Digital Resources

Mimi Calter, Deputy University Librarian for Stanford, offers a useful framework for libraries as they consider patron privacy.

Content Platform Migrations Cause Headaches. Can We Avoid Some of the Pain?

Libraries and individual subscribers to journals have seen the problems that can occur when a publication moved or was sold from one publisher to another. Perhaps there would be an editorial change, leading to delayed issues. Perhaps all the subscription […]

All the Details of the New York Public Library

A deep architectural dive into the remarkable New York Public Library.

NISO and NFAIS Announce Plans to Merge

NISO and NFAIS announced a planned merger yesterday, designed to better serve their members during a time of rapid change.

Access Alone Isn’t Enough: Revisiting Calls for Discovery, Infrastructure, Technology, and Training

While open access offers great benefit to lower-income countries, more is needed than just access alone. Revisiting several posts about the bigger picture needs.

Extracting Book Data from Library Information Systems

Despite increasingly sophisticated library automation, the data on books in libraries is often hard to come by.

More Scholarly Communications Consolidation as Institutional Repository Provider DuraSpace Merges into Lyrasis

Green open access, and in particular the role of institutional repositories in serving up preprints and other journal article artifacts, is going through some substantial transitions. Yesterday, news broke that DuraSpace and Lyrasis are merging. An important development for institutional repositories and related library systems, this is also yet another example of organizational consolidation among membership organizations in the library community in particular. Roger Schonfeld analyzes the merger.

Different Places, Different Voices

Highlighting a sampling of posts by authors from around the globe to help raise awareness of the communication needs and concerns of the international scholarly community.

Guest Post: MLA InSight — How to Buy Whisky

A report on the 2018 MLA InSight meeting that brought together librarians and publishers: How can our communities work together in collaborative efforts that actually make a difference?

Elsevier Chairman YS Chi: An Interview

Today’s post features an interview of Elsevier’s chairman Youngsuk (“YS”) Chi, conducted by ITHAKA president Kevin Guthrie during the opening session of ITHAKA’s Next Wave conference. It features discussion and perspective not only about Elsevier itself and its strategic direction, but also about broader changes in scholarly communication and approaches to organizational leadership.

Exclusive Deals in Scholarly Discovery: How they Hurt Users and Pose Threats to Open Scholarship

Exclusive indexing deals in scholarly discovery hurt researchers and undermine the drive toward comprehensive library search.

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