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Academic Library Publishing, Part 1: Changing Times, Changing Roles (1 of a 3 part series) by Nancy K. Herther Today’s academic library is surprisingly different from what it was just ten years ago. For years, spurred on by the internet as the communications...

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2015 Conference, held in Portland, OR from March 25–28, was by all accounts an upbeat event. Academic librarians may be thinking seriously about the future, but for a few temperate and surprisingly...

This year, Open Education Week ran from March 9th to March 13th. Open Education Week, like Open Access Week, is a celebration of what has been accomplished and what is currently being done within the greater open movement. The Open Education Consortium...

The Wellcome Trust strengthened their open access policy last year and now withhold part of the grant available to authors until an author they comply with their approach.  This is because open access increases the impact of the biomedical and...

This member update provided by Shafeek Fazal, Associate Director for Library Technology, Discovery and Digital Services at the University Libraries, Stony Brook University, State University of New York. One of the new directions for Stony Brook University...