May 5, 2026 by Gary Price
Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Integration Announcement: Johns Hopkins University Press (Hopkins Press) and BioOne today announced their merger, in a bold move designed to enhance community impact, expand future opportunities, and transform how they engage with researchers. BioOne’s flagship aggregation of bioscience research journals, BioOne Complete, as well as their eBook collections, will […]
May 4, 2026 by Gary Price
Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement From EBSCO: EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) announced the appointment of Allen Powell as Chief Executive Officer. Powell brings extensive experience across the organization and a strong understanding of the company’s customers, products and long-term strategy. Powell has served EBSCO in senior leadership roles for more than three decades. Most recently, he […]
April 23, 2026 by Gary Price
From the Chicago Tribune: “More and more taxpayer-funded library budgets are being eaten up by this licensing at unreasonably high prices,” [Monica] Harris [executive director of the Reaching Across Illinois Library System] said. “The hold list gets longer and longer for the constituents who are trying to, you know, use these materials and many libraries […]
April 8, 2026 by Gary Price
Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Launch Announcement: DEAL Open Access Services (DEAS), together with contributing partners the University of California Libraries, Consortia Colombia, the Council of Australasian University Librarians, the Max Planck Society, the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), and the South African National Library and Information Consortium, today announced the establishment […]
March 19, 2026 by Gary Price
The article linked below was published today by The Journal of Academic Librarianship. Title How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Information Literacy in Academic Libraries: A Global Scientometric Analysis (2020–2025) Authors Munazza Jabeen Humboldt zu universitaire, Berlin, Germany Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan Claudia Lux Humboldt zu universitaire, Berlin, Germany Source The Journal of Academic […]
March 10, 2026 by Gary Price
From the Charleston Hub Channel on YouTube: Today’s episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Brewster Kahle, Founder & Director, Internet Archive. Brewster says that back in the 1980’s he believed that everything would eventually become digital. He dreamed of building a Library of Alexandria where humanity’s knowledge would […]
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February 24, 2026 by Gary Price
From the ESAC Blog: The OA2020 and ESAC communities mark a new phase in the evolution of the ESAC Registry—a shared, library-driven infrastructure documenting open access publishing agreements between libraries, consortia, and publishers. Built by practitioners to strengthen transparency and shared insight across a rapidly evolving publishing landscape, the Registry documents how libraries worldwide have translated […]
February 24, 2026 by Gary Price
The journal article linked below was published today by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Title Academic Journals’ AI Policies Fail to Curb the Surge in AI-Assisted Academic Writing Authors Yongyuan He Peking University Yi Bu Peking University Source Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) […]
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February 18, 2026 by Gary Price
From the New Jersey Monitor: New Jersey librarians and lawmakers who joined forces to fight book-banners a few years ago have a new target: publishers whose restrictive e-book licensing agreements have shrunk digital access for library users. [Clip] Such practices would become a violation of New Jersey’s consumer fraud law under a bill Sen. Andrew Zwicker (D-Middlesex) […]
February 14, 2026 by Gary Price
From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA): 128 countries are now signed up to the marrakesh treaty, which removes unnecessary copyright barriers to the creation of and access to books and other materials in accessible formats for people with print disabilities. but how far have they aligned their national laws with the […]

