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With information provided by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), the lists of titles being cut have been revised.
The scholarly communications landscape in Canada and worldwide is currently under technological and economic pressures that will inevitably lead to new models and approaches (CARL, 2016). As described in CUSP: Canadian Universities and Sustainable Publishing (2016) by Martha Whitehead and Brian Owen, “Many factors are converging: the continuing impact of digital technology on
The following is the first in a series of posts on the subscription-based model and open access alternatives, and how each get stuck from their respective ends of the scholarly information supply chain. As a reminder: Opinions expressed here are my own and do not express the views or opinions of my
(2016). Cutting without Cursing: A Successful Cancellation Project. The Serials Librarian: Vol. 71, No. 2, pp. 112-120.
Freedom of Information request by open science advocates has revealed academic journal pricing through an administrative court decision. Finland is the first country where the subscription prices paid by practically all universities and research institutions to individual publishers are made availab
Is it better to have loved and lost (a research database) than never to have had access at all?
UO Libraries is cutting its collection budget by over half a million dollars this year in response to administration’s realignment process.
I took part in a recent Scopus training webinar about a month ago where it was casually mentioned that Scopus doesn’t index all of Elsevier’s journals. This sparked my interest: Why wou…
Thanks to a new agreement with Springer, MIT-authored articles will automatically be deposited into DSpace@MIT, the Institute's open access repository.
The aphorism “information wants to be free,” coined by entrepreneur Stewart Brand in 1984 at the inaugural Hackers Conference, has come to serve as a...
OAwashing by STM Association.
Memorial University has come to a final decision on cancelling academic journals: as of 2016 the library will stop subscribing to 1,700 titles and will have reduced access to more than 2,000 journals. MUN is cancelling its subscription to four major publisher packages, which cost a combined $1.4
Journal subscriptions are often priced in U.S. dollars, and most university libraries pay for a majority of their collection purchases in American dol...
Costs and benefits of cuts must be weighed accordingly.