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New Report From OCLC Research: “Building RDM Capacity Through Strategic Library Collaboration”
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access
|From OCLC Research: OCLC Research has published the new report Building Research Data Management Capacity: Case Studies in Strategic Library Collaboration, which provides actionable recommendations based on real-world case studies that libraries can apply to make their own collaborations successful and sustainable. Research data management is an increasingly vital strategic interest for academic libraries, and many […]
NY Review of Books: Robert Darnton Reviews Peter Baldwin’s, “Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Jobs, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From Robert Darnton’s NYRB Review: In Athena Unbound Baldwin takes a hard look at the world of knowledge. Have no illusions, he warns: journal publishers are gouging their customers, scholarly monographs reach a tiny audience, libraries are floundering under budget pressures, academics are pursuing careers rather than truth, and readers are not getting all the information they […]
From a COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) Post: Open Science is ushering in a new paradigm for research; one in which all researchers have unprecedented access to the full corpus of research for analysis, text and data mining, and other new research methods. A prerequisite for achieving this vision is a strong and well-functioning […]
A New Issue of Code4Lib Journal (Issue 58) is Now Available Online
Academic Libraries, Dashboards, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, New Issue, News, Open Access
|Direct to Complete Table of Contents + Abstracts (Issue 58, December 4, 2023) Direct to Articles Editorial Enhancing Serials Holdings Data: A Pymarc-Powered Clean-Up Project The Use of Python to Support Technical Services Work in Academic Libraries Pipeline or Pipe Dream: Building a Scaled Automated Metadata Creation and Ingest Workflow Using Web Scraping Tools A […]
New White Paper: “Access to Science and Scholarship: Key Questions About the Future of Research Publishing”
Data Files, Funding, Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From MIT Press: The project—including MIT Press’s Director and Publisher Amy Brand and Director of Journals and Open Access Nick Lindsay—examines the current state of the research enterprise and what might come nextThe MIT Press is proud to collaborate with our colleagues across the Institute on the release of “Access to Science and Scholarship: Key […]
Books, Internet and Naloxone: In-House Nurse Supports People in Crisis At Edmonton Library; ALISE Position Statement: The Importance of Graduate Education and Professional Certification in Library and Information Science;
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries, Publishing
|Alberta Books, Internet and Naloxone: In-House Nurse Supports People in Crisis at Edmonton Library (via CBC) California Mellon Foundation Gift Supports Expansion of San Diego Public Library Digital Memory Labs Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) DOAJ Finances – Updated For Year-End 2022 Iowa Iowa Teachers Union and a Book Publisher Launch A Second Lawsuit […]
IARLA Statement: “International Principles for Research Libraries on a Safe and Open Internet”
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Preservation
|From the International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA): Research libraries, along with their home institutions, provide access to the internet for students, faculty, researchers, and the broader communities we serve. As such, it is a key priority to ensure that users have unfettered access to information in a safe and open environment. As technology […]
Just Released: An Updated Joint Statement on Research Data From STM, DataCite, and Crossref
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From the Joint Statement: In 2012, DataCite and STM drafted an initial joint statement on the linkability and citability of research data. With nearly 10 million data citations tracked, thousands of repositories adopting data citation best practices, thousands of journals adopting data policies, data availability statements and establishing persistent links between articles and datasets, and the introduction […]
DEAL Consortium and Wiley Sign New 5-Year Open Access Agreement; ResearchGate and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Announce New Journal Home Partnership for Science Partner Journals; & More News Headlines
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries, Publishing
|American Library Association ALA Announces the 2024 Class of Emerging Leaders British Library British Library Hack: Customer Data Offered For Sale on Dark Web (via BBC) Canada Montreal Libraries Will Be Able to Kick Out People For Smelling Bad (via VICE) Center For Research Libraries (CRL) Robert Van Rennes to Join CRL Licensing & Acquisitions […]
Canada: CARL, OCUL, and University of Toronto Libraries Sign MOU Outlining Collaborative Intent to Develop a National Institutional Repository Service
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation
|From a Joint Release (via OCUL): The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), and University of Toronto Libraries are pleased to announce their signing of an MOU outlining our collaborative intent to develop a National Institutional Repository Service to be hosted by Scholars Portal. The agreement establishes a […]