White paper suggests ways to improve usage data that will benefit all stakeholders including authors, publishers, funders, vendors, libraries, and readers.
Posted 09 May 2019
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network has launched a list of open access journals held in its member institutions.
Posted 08 May 2019
New archive contains captured website content.
Posted 08 May 2019
International Museums Day is celebrated in May 2019. Kenn Bicknell considers the lessons libraries can learn from museums.
Posted 03 May 2019
The Bookseller and The Reading Agency are inviting submissions for the 2019 Library of the Year.
Posted 29 April 2019
A new international study explores how researchers find and use scholarly literature for their work and finds differences by age, discipline and geography.
Posted 29 April 2019
Libraries matter for Europe and Europe matters for libraries. IFLA and its partners have developed a library manifesto for Europe. Here are the highlights.
Posted 26 April 2019
Research Libraries UK (RLUK) represents 37 research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Posted 24 April 2019
In this Association of Research Libraries white paper expert Wikidata users recommend ways for librarians to use the open knowledge base in advancing global discovery of their collections, faculty, and institutions.
Posted 23 April 2019
Global Alliance of Open Access Scholarly Communication Platforms launched at a session organised by UNESCO.
Posted 23 April 2019
Successful pilot results in early roll-out of ‘In Review'.
Posted 04 April 2019
CUP reaches ‘read and publish' agreement with German academic library consortium.
Posted 04 April 2019
Springer Nature has published its first machine-generated chemistry book.
Posted 02 April 2019
Bryony Ramsden, of the UXLibs conference team, reflects on how inclusivity became an unexpected but critical theme of the 2018 conference.
Posted 21 March 2019
Human computer interaction, machine learning and machine perception are topics receiving most funding.
Posted 20 March 2019
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has released a statement describing the ways in which librarians help advance global scholarship.
Posted 20 March 2019
Melanie Holst describes 'A Million Stories'. The library-led intercultural storytelling project is the largest curated collection of unfiltered personal accounts from refugees in Europe.
Posted 11 March 2019
Over 450 items are now available to academic libraries with more to follow.
Posted 07 March 2019
Two days of discussions about academic publishing covered China's role in OA, Plan S, value propositions, book publishing and much more. The event was not without controversy!
Posted 06 March 2019
Applications should reflect innovative developments in scholarly communication.
Posted 06 March 2019
Major decision reached by UC in push for open access to publicly funded research.
Posted 01 March 2019
Gale, a Cengage company, has released the third installment of its award-winning Archives of Sexuality & Gender series.
Posted 26 February 2019
One million subscriptions achieved in seven months.
Posted 26 February 2019
Partnership has led to thousands of articles being made freely available.
Posted 21 February 2019
The theme of the 20th International Conference on Grey Literature was 'Research Data Fuels and Sustains Grey Literature'.
Posted 07 February 2019