It's increasingly important for librarians to develop a broad range of skills and to take on a variety of roles in the workplace.
Posted 03 November 2017
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism held focus group discussions in Finland, Spain, the UK and the US. Here's what people said about fake news - and more.
Posted 02 November 2017
A report commissioned by four university presses (Cornell University Press, UCL Press, University of California Press and University of Michigan Press) explores the usage of OA books via the JSTOR Platform.
Posted 02 November 2017
Helen Lane and her colleagues created an Augmented Reality game to engage new starters at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.
Posted 02 November 2017
The goal of the research is to develop a bespoke tool for librarians and related professionals that would allow them to interlink Linked Data sets.
Posted 26 October 2017
The 2017 Tony Kent Strix Award goes to Maarten de Rijke, the Professor of Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Posted 26 October 2017
The story so far and next steps outlined in a series of factsheets.
Posted 21 October 2017
The BBC has announced a five-year research partnership with eight UK universities.
Posted 20 October 2017
A Storify of Tweets using the #ILI2017 hashtag on Day 2 of Internet Librarian International.
Posted 20 October 2017
New British Library exhibition celebrates Harry Potter's 20th anniversary.
Posted 20 October 2017
De Gruyter launches OA journal.
Posted 20 October 2017
A Storify of Tweets using the #ILI2017 hashtag on Day 1 of Internet Librarian International.
Posted 19 October 2017
UKeiG has announced that the UKeiG Jason Farradane Award winner for 2017 is Christopher Gutteridge, Systems, Information and Web programmer at the University of Southampton.
Posted 12 October 2017
The challenge of managing digital life cycles will be ongoing and a focus on built-in discovery is crucial.
Posted 10 October 2017
ProQuest Dissertations in Google Scholar; CUP ebooks and journals in Yewno Discover; co-publishing agreement for Springer and Graz University Press.
Posted 09 October 2017
Report explores the OA publishing landscape in eight European countries.
Posted 09 October 2017
A Pew Internet survey explores how people approach the search for information. What are the implications for librarians tasked with improving digital and information literacy?
Posted 06 October 2017
Science Discoveries features research from across De Gruyter journals.
Posted 06 October 2017
EBSCO publishes its Serials Price Projection Report for 2018
Posted 05 October 2017
Emerald Reach aims to deliver high quality open access content.
Posted 05 October 2017
The EU has ordered Amazon to reply €250m it received in a sweetheart deal in Luxembourg.
Posted 05 October 2017
Organisational and commercial forces are driving change and experimentation.
Posted 04 October 2017
International coalition calls on EU to halt harmful copyright reform; RSC and Publons partner to recognise peer reviewers; De Gruyter launches science news site.
Posted 25 September 2017
ScienceDirect Topics offer a free layer of content on a number of scientific topics.
Posted 23 September 2017
ScienceOpen to host UCL's open access journal programme.
Posted 23 September 2017