Library Licensing Strategies
Libraries are accelerating engagement with transformative and pure publish agreements, balancing contract-based publishing support with an APC fund, and investing in the scholarly communications ecosystem.
Guest Post: An Interview with Prof. Dr. Liying Yang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mary Miskin offers an interview with Prof. Dr. Liying Yang, Director of the Scientometrics and Research Assessment Unit at the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who manages the Early Warning List and the CAS Journal Ranking.
Can Academia Afford a Holiday Hiatus from Publish or Perish?
As we contemplate a pause during the holiday season, we must ask ourselves: Isn’t the researcher’s overall well-being as crucial as the research itself?
Where Did the Open Access Movement Go Wrong?: An Interview with Richard Poynder
Noted journalist and scholarly communication observer Richard Poynder explains why he has given up on the open access movement.
Observations from the Charleston Vendor Showcase
Reflecting on the Charleston Conference Vendor Showcase @lisalibrarian share what she did — and didn’t — see.
The British Library: The Importance of Legal Deposit
“This library has every book ever published.” A visit to the British Library.
Libraries, Archives, Choice and Red Envelopes: The Growth of Streaming, the Decline of Choice, and the Death of the Red Envelope
The role of libraries and archives as streaming grows, choice declines, and the death of the red envelopes arrives.
Guest Post – Open Access to University Press Frontlists: A Call to Action
Now, two decades into the OA movement, it is high time for university libraries and presses to finally create a future for OA monographs.
From a “Ghost Library” to a “Window on the Big World”: The Story of Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui, Wellington Central Library
What do you do when the building standards governing the safety of your workplace are deemed inadequate?
Appeals Court Rules That Library of Congress Can No Longer Require Deposit of Published Works
An appeals court has ruled that it is unconstitutional for the government to require deposit of published works in the Library of Congress
Fashionable Goodness: Authors’ Choices in Publication
Authors can choose from a number of publication options. What drives an author to self-publish their book? What do they give up when they do?
Critical Archives
Studying the way we’ve studied the past is mutual work. Archivists and librarians, and scholars using their collections, have each been producing critical archives scholarship that too often remains within disciplinary and professional siloes.
Web-scale Institutional Search: What are Publishers Doing Today?
Twelve years after the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) launched, I wonder: How are scholarly content providers leveraging ODI conformance statements to drive transparency and usage via web-scale library discovery services?
The Great Libraries of China
An architectural tour of the great libraries of China turns up a spectacular place to read a book on the beach.
Why Does the U.S. Copyright Office Require Libraries to Lie to Users about Their Fair Use Rights? They Won’t Say.
The copyright warning notice prescribed by the US Copyright Office misleads library patrons about their fair use rights, and must change.