Guest Post — Library Vendor Platforms Need a Strategic Reboot to Meet Librarian Curriculum Development Needs
David Parker looks at platform strategy for supporting learning and curriculum development.
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.
Guest Post — An Update to OhioLINK’s Affordable Textbooks Initiative
Gwen Evans from OhioLink looks at the positive results of the consortium’s statewide affordable textbooks initiative.
UC Davis Experiments with a New Textbook Model: An Interview with Jason Lorgan
An interview with Jason Lorgan, executive director of campus stores at @UCDavis, about the university’s innovative new textbook-affordability program.
Articles Summaries that “Spoil” the Paper to Save Reader Time
As there is too little time to read all the papers, Paper Digest automatically lists out the key sentences of a paper.
Landscape Analysis: A SPARC Report on the Changing Nature of the Academic Publishing Industry and the Implications for Institutions
The latest report from SPARC is a departure from advocacy and is very well done. Robert Harington discusses key findings from Claudio Aspesi et al., for SPARC – A Landscape Analysis: The Changing Academic Publishing Industry – Implications for Academic Institutions
Guest Post — Low Cost Textbook Alternatives: Worth the Effort?
When a University of Utah professor grew frustrated with the slim textbook offerings available to students of Arabic, she turned to the library for help. The result was the collaborative creation of a new and radically cheaper text — that got much higher ratings from students than the old one had. How did we do it?