Emerald Publishing Lifts Paywall and Offers Free Access to 10 Library Research Articles (National Library Week 2016)

From Emerald:

In celebration of National Library Week, Emerald Group Publishing, global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society, is offering free access to a selection of its latest Library and Information Science (LIS) research.

The research, taken from Emerald’s Library and Information Science journal and book series, is available free to access until May 6 2016.

Here are links to the ten articles. You do  not have to register in order to access full text for free.

• “Beyond books: The concept of the academic library as learning space”, New Library World

• “Cloud libraries”, Library Hi Tech News

• “Engaging with entrepreneurs in academic and public libraries”, Reference Services Review

• “FYI for FYE: 20-minute instruction for library orientation”, Reference Services Review

•  “Libraries and Human Rights – Working Together to Reach Our Full Potential”, Advances in Librarianship

• “Libraries as publishers: a winning combination”, OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives

• Library spaces in the 21st century: Meeting the challenges of user needs for information, technology, and expertise” Library Management

• “New Trends that Define the 21st-Century Library”, Advances in Library Administration and Organization

• “No One Gets Left Behind”: Managing Library Human Resources during Dramatic Shifts in Academic Libraries”, Book Series: Advances in Library Administration and Organizations

• “Transforming library communication: from Gutenberg to Zuckerberg”, New Library World

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