Alignment With Editors’ Expectations
« Library publishing is a growing area of interest for academic libraries as journal editors are increasingly seeking the services offered by libraries to start...
Étiquette : academic libraries
Open Textbooks at Oregon State University: A Case Study of New Opportunities for Academic Libraries and University Presses
« INTRODUCTION. This article describes a joint open textbook publishing initiative begun in 2013 between Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries and Press and t...
The Adoption of Open Access Funds Among Canadian Academic Research Libraries, 2008-2012
« As a result of changes in scholarly communication created by the open access movement, some academic libraries established open access (OA) publishing funds. ...
Building a model plan for knowledge sharing among the library and information science professionals in the selected public and private university libraries of Bangladesh: A Study
« The main purpose of the study is to formulate a model plan for KS among the LIS professionals in the selected public and private university libraries of Bangl...
Are there birds in the library? The extent of Twitter adoption and use by Canadian academic libraries
« Twitter, only eight years old, has emerged as an ever-present component of our everyday, online lives. This phenomenon is apparent in academic libraries as we...
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Their Impact on Academic Library Services: Exploring the Issues and Challenges
« 2012 was a year of rapid change for education with the advent of MOOCs—Massive Open Online Courses—available for the world to use to learn for free. But what ...
Don’t Fear the Reader: Librarian versus Interlibrary Loan Patron-Driven Acquisition of Print Books at an Academic Library by Relative Collecting Level and by Library of Congress Classes and Subclasses
« Recently, a great deal of literature on patron-driven acquisition (PDA) has been published that addresses the implementation and results of PDA programs at ac...