January 23, 2024 by Gary Price
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) BHL Technical Development: Year in Review Boston Library Consortium, NISO Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and NISO (National Information Standards Organization) Announce Membership Agreement EBSCO EBSCO Information Services CEO Tim Collins to Retire on June 30, 2024 DataCite Meet Maria Gould, DataCite’s New Product Director Google Chrome Browser Adds Three New Generative […]
October 11, 2023 by Gary Price
From an EBSCO Announcement: EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has published the 2024 Serials Price Projection Report. This year’s report projects that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic medical libraries are expected to be (before any currency impact) in the range of three to four percent for individual e-journal titles, two to three percent […]
September 21, 2023 by Gary Price
AI ChatGPT Usage is Rising Again as Students Return to School (via Bloomberg) Universities Rethink Using AI Writing Detectors to Vet Students’ Work (via Bloomberg) Amazon AI-Generated Books Force Amazon To Cap E-Book Publications to 3 Per Day (via ars technica) EBSCO EBSCO Information Services Pursues Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Opportunities Penn State Libraries Penn […]
August 22, 2023 by Gary Price
Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement via The Open Library Foundation: The Open Library Foundation (OLF) is introducing the Open Resource Sharing Coalition (OpenRS), a resource sharing initiative created in partnership with library consortia, open source developers, and vendors. OpenRS is a heterogeneous resource sharing system that is ILS and Discovery agnostic and accommodates […]
July 13, 2023 by Gary Price
infoDOCKET would like to thank SAGE for opening the paywall to this article. The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. Title The Relationship Between University Presses, E-Book Vendors, and Academic Libraries: A Platform Theory Analysis Authors Mei Zhang Syracuse University Kristin Eschenfelder University of Wisconsin-Madison Source Journal […]
April 11, 2023 by Gary Price
Chicago Libraries Now Offer Mental Health Services, Therapists (via CBS Chicago How Bookshop.org Survives—and Thrives—in Amazon’s World (via WIRED) Lyrasis Announces Sessions For Second Annual LyrOpen Fair New Steve Jobs Archive Ebook Now Available as a Free Download (via 9to5Mac) Oklahoma State University to Adopt the FOLIO Library Services Platform With EBSCO FOLIO Tennessee Bills Targeting […]
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April 3, 2023 by Gary Price
GALILEO Picks FOLIO as Its New Library Services Platform (via GALILEO) Global 5G Connections Increase 76% Annually and Now Reaches 1.05 Billion (via 5G Americas) How to Build a Publishers’ Catalogue (via COPIM) New Self-Archiving Policy Enables Immediate Open Access for University of Cambridge Researchers (via U. of Cambridge) Open Library of Humanities (OLH) Publishes 2022 […]
February 21, 2023 by Gary Price
Critics Blast ‘Absurd’ Rewrites to Roald Dahl’s Children’s Books (via NBC News) EBSCO Information Services Joins ReShare Community Five UK Higher Ed Organizations Release Joint Statement of Support for the Sector’s Rejection of the Springer Nature Proposal (via Russell Group) Hachette et al. v. Internet Archive et al Oral Argument in Connection with Motions for […]
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February 14, 2023 by Gary Price
EBSCO Information Services Launches FinancialFit Helper Systems Launches kOS 1.0 Preview (via HS) Library Futures Releases Policy Paper: Digital Ownership for Libraries and the Public New Frog Species Named After Fantasy Author J.R.R. Tolkien (via Pensoft) Newly Processed Manuscript Collections at the Library of Congress (via LC) Springer Nature Acquires Innovative Writing Aid, TooWrite ||| […]
December 7, 2022 by Gary Price
ALA Praises Introduction of Workforce Legislation (via ALA) AM and Big Ten Academic Alliance Sign Landmark Access Deal (via BTAA) arXiv Welcomes Stephanie Orphan as Program Director (via arXiv( EBSCO Information Services Introduces BiblioGraph (via EBSCO) European Book Publishing Statistics 2021 (via FEP) FCC Commits Another $84M for School, Library Connectivity (via MeriTalk) Springer Nature […]