Returning to the Workplace
With the Omicron surge in the rearview mirror, our Chefs reflect on returning to the workplace.
Expanded Access to Paywalled Content: A Hidden Benefit of Transformative Agreements
What has not made headlines but is also a noteworthy outcome of transformative agreements is the significant increase in access and readership for paywalled articles that they facilitate.
Guest Post — Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on how COVID-19 is Changing Open Access (Part 1)
A look at open access policies and developments in Canada, especially in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Part 1 of a 2 part post.
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?
Pluralism vs. Monoculture in Scholarly Communication, Part 2
Calls for a monoculture of scholarly communication keep multiplying. But wouldn’t a continued diversity of models be healthier?
Guest Post — Of Brown M&M’s and Publishing in Academic Journals
Why did a certain band eliminate brown M&M’s from their dressing room? And what does that have to do with the formatting requirements at some journals? Nathan Stevenson explains.
What Universities Have Wrought: An Interview with Davarian Baldwin
The crises that US universities are producing in cities are intensifying as fast as others they face. An interview with Davarian Baldwin, author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower.
Security, Safety, SeamlessAccess
The team behind SeamlessAccess discuss why identity federation promotes security and privacy despite coordinated attacks on access systems
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.
NFT Technology versus Subscriptions – The Battle for Ownership of Digital Content
NFTs are the next phase in the ongoing tension between forces supporting subscriptions and those supporting ownership of content
Watch Out for the Silent Librarian: An Interview with Crane Hassold
Silent Librarian is an international phishing organization that “angles” for university network credentials on behalf of the Iranian government. Crane Hassold gives us the lowdown on this dangerous scam.
Historians in Historic Times
Historians have been working overtime to contextualize the ongoing pandemic and the political crises. Read the reflections of scholars who published major projects on how their work intersects with and informs and is informed by the history we’re living.
Are you a robot? Can you prove you’re not?
Are you a robot? Are you sure? Prove it.
Guest Post – Scientific output in the year of COVID — Please See Update
Christos Petrou looks at the impact on publication volumes, and what that might mean for next year.
Elsevier Has Deployed an End-user Tracking Tool for Security. Should Users Be Concerned About Their Privacy?
Should library patrons be concerned about how Elsevier uses ThreatMetrix and how it tracks users? It’s complicated.