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EZProxy etc. log-analysis tool, for gauging and reporting on e-resource usage.
Timothy Gowers is boycotting Elsevier and hopes to spark reform that will replace expensive journals with a more rational system
Western Ontario and UToronto: copyright cops for the big pigs!
let's say your library subscribes to an e-journal package through a licensing consortium, a package that is licensed to grant perpetual access to the journal issues published during the time you are subscribed -- that means you own the content…
Monty Python’s rebels ponder all they must replace if they kill the Romans The researcher rebellion against the closed research-and-publishing system, tallied most explicitly in a petition boycotting publisher Elsevier, continues to expand. (The Economist covers it here, and I covered the complaints last year in a feature.) The big question, of course, is whether this noisy riot will engender something […]
D-Lib Magazine
Keynote presentation American Chemical Society Editors Meeting, La Jolla CA USA, Jan 6, 2012
From The Exponent (Purdue University): Purdue students and faculty could have lost access to the majority of scholastic research articles available online through Purdue libraries today.
This is a post I’ve been intending to write for several months, but now seems to be quite a good moment, since the issue is in the air somewhat. For example, I’ve just read a post by Mi…
With British universities already spending 65 percent of their library acquisition budgets on periodicals, the pressure for change is mounting.