Summary of the debates held during the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) Conference (23rd to 25th of October 2013).

Among the subjects discussed:

– The current state of scholarly communication,
– The expansion of evaluation methodologies and metrics,
– Products and services in editing and publishing academic journals,
– The role played by public policies and programs in the support and evaluation of research communicated by journals.

At Hunt Library, North Carolina State University, the university decided that instead of devoting square footage to its collection, it would prioritize collaborative, high-tech learning spaces.

The new interface for SUNCAT (the Serials Union Catalogue for the UK research community) is now available, it includes improved pre-search library and geographic limits, the ability to combine pre-search limits, and the introduction of post-search filters, links to the local catalogues of holding libraries.

A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no scrutiny at many open-access journals.