Can Parents in Academia “Have it All”?
How can academia better accommodate the diverse needs of parents striving to balance their research pursuits with family responsibilities?
Guest Post — Speak Finance: Gain University Support for Open Scholarship
The federal government is mandating that the knowledge and data produced from federal grants be widely available for our collective good. Libraries remain under-resourced to make this happen. Let’s add some new metrics and language to this narrative to help articulate the value of libraries.
Are Price, Value, and Openness the Most Important Scholarly Communication Priorities?
Today, Roger Schonfeld argues that there are scholarly communication priorities that merit focus beyond price, value, and openness and which require cross-sector collaboration.
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.
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.
SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 14: Open Access Update- A Run-Down of the OSTP Nelson Memo with Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe provides a current refresh on the open access (OA) funding landscape, and more specifically on the 2022 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Nelson Memo.
Guest Post — In Tough Times the Key is to Think Differently
Alan Harvey from Stanford University Press discusses their evolving strategy in turbulent times.
Return of the Big Deal: Developments in Texas and India
New arrangements planned in Texas and India move us away from a universal transition to OA, and back towards the Big Deal.
Web-scale Library Search: Where Are We Today?
Eleven years after the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) launched, I wonder: How are ODI conformance statements helping to drive transparency and cross-sector improvements to web-scale library discovery services?
Guest Post — Three Challenges (and Solutions) to Expand Digital Humanities
Chris Houghton discusses how digital archives and new tools are changing approaches for Digital Humanities researchers.
Returning to the Workplace
With the Omicron surge in the rearview mirror, our Chefs reflect on returning to the workplace.
Libraries in The Scholarly Communications Ecosystem, SSP Early Career Development Podcast Ep 9
Episode 9 of the SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast discusses what libraries mean to the scholarly communications ecosystem.
Reading About Libraries and Librarians
Libraries and librarians the world over are complex, diverse, and distinctive — and they make for fascinating reading.
Guest Post — The Library Technology Market’s Failure to Support Controlled Digital Lending
Nathan Mealey, Michael Rodriguez, and Charlie Barlow look at the state of Controlled Digital Lending.
Celebrating 25 Years of Preserving the Web
Since 1996, the Internet Archive has been capturing the World Wide Web but also doing so much more to preserve our digital world behind the scenes.