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Go To Hellman: Wiley's Fake Journal of Constructive Metaphysics and the War on Automated Downloading
Suppose you were a publisher and you wanted to get the goods on a pirate who was downloading your subscription content and giving it away f...
This presentation to the libraries@cambridge conference held on the 7th January 2016 describes some of the more surprising activities academic publishers are e…
Saying that Sci-Hub is about copyright infringement is like saying the Boston Tea Party was about late-night vandalism.
Publishing an open-access paper in a journal can be prohibitively expensive. Some researchers are drumming up support for a movement to change that.
The 11th anniversary of Google Scholar passed yesterday. Max Kemman provides an overview of the growth and impact of the platform and also looks at why Google Scholar is virtually unrivaled. The sc…
The current weakness of the Canadian Dollar has had a negative effect on many industries in Canada who have seen their purchasing power drop to zilch. One industry particularly effected by the Doll…
Almost a year ago, I wrote about a terrible article that was published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health.
Introduction Protecting user privacy and confidentiality has long been an integral part of the intellectual freedom mission of libraries. The right to free inquiry as assured by the First Amendment
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The University of Connecticut Libraries is in the process of an extensive evaluation and review of our e-resource collections. So that everyone involved in col…
A study at the University of Montreal shows that the market share of the five largest research publishing houses reached 50 percent in 2006, rising, thanks to mergers and acquisitions, from 30 percent in 1996 and only 20 percent in 1973.
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a short talk at the second virtual meeting of the NISO effort to reach a Consensus Framework to Support Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems. The slides from the presentation are below and on SlideShare, followed by a cleaned-up transcript of my remarks.
A recent query to the "LibLicense" listserv asked: Is there any kind of organization that has put together a website or list of database...