- Don’t Panic: Why Catastrophism Fails Libraries
- Breaking Up with Libraries
- Resolved: All LIS students should not take that course
- Once a Librarian, Always a Librarian?
- Editorial: Libraries see opportunity in changing times
- Look to the present of libraries to see the future
- Results of the “Global Research Council” in Berlin Announced
- Wellcome Trust extends open access policy to include scholarly monographs and book chapters
- Open-access initiatives to benefit the academy
- Economics of scholarly communication in transition (Is there enough money in library budgets to unleash all of scholarship instead of locking it away?)
- Joining a CHORUS, Publishers Offer the OSTP a Proactive, Modern, and Cost-Saving Public Access Solution
- Entrepreneurial and Innovative (academics need to talk about what they do)
- The Future of Creative Commons & Dispatches from the Commons (annual report)
- eBooks in 2013: Promises broken, promises kept, and Faustian bargains
- Riding the crest of the altmetrics wave: How librarians can help prepare faculty for the next generation of research impact metrics
- Everybody Already Knows Journal Rank Is Bunk
- Seeking les Mots Injustes (customers or patrons?)
- Are We Guilty of EdTech Hype?
- How the Internet Killed Photojournalism
- The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’ (Julian Assange reviews The New Digital Age)
- State Systems Go MOOC
- Why Big Data Is Not Truth
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Via a mailing list, the Top 1000 Books in the US, ranked in order of library holdings. The Top 25 (after the cut):
As is occasionally my habit when a big story breaks, I have gathered together all the relevant documents I could find concerning the recent controversy about the Canadian Conservative government's recent consolidation of the libraries at their Department of Fisheries & Oceans.
7 Things Librarians Are Tired of Hearing
Library without books debuts at Florida’s newest college
Thanks to Mark Spicer for bringing this item to my attention. Note that the site I'm linking to sells printer cartridges, but still has some cool content.
A modest proposal....The open access model requires somebody to pay for the costs of publication.. Usually this ends up being the author, or their institution, or grantor. This is either a per article or per page fee.
One of the problem with citation counts and other bibliometrics is that any system upon which that much depends is going to be "gamed" in some form or another. So instead of charging authors by the page, why not charge them by the number of citations that have? This puts at least some "skin in the game" and encourages them to only cite articles that they feel are ACTUALLY relevant.