International Identifier for serials
and other continuing resources, in the electronic and print world

The Year of the Paywall

The comeback of paying online content for the newspapers following the important decrease of advertising revenues.

Open Access Week 2013: A Recap of This Year’s Global Celebration

This year’s Open Access Week, a global event that just finished its sixth year, was held Oct. 21–27, 2013. Celebrations of various types were sponsored by libraries, students, researchers, publishers, and nonprofit organizations to increase awareness about open access (OA).

2013 Study of Subscription Prices for Scholarly Society Journals

Society publishers face a number of challenges as a result of declining subscriptions, increased competition, demand for mobile access, increasing production prices, and open access mandates. This study is a review of scholarly journal price trends during the past year.

Generating Actionable Evidence on E-journal Archiving

Latest report on the Keepers Registry’s activity by Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA and Head of Edinburgh University Data Library. The Keepers’s registry is a service which helps you discover which e-journals are being archived and by what organization.

New SUNCAT Interface now available

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.