L’enquête du Réseau Sudoc PS sur l’application Cidemis, réalisée du 6 au 16 novembre 2023 auprès de 19 responsables de centres, a recueilli des avis sur l’application utilisée par environ 3 000 bibliothèques pour les demandes ISSN et les corrections de données. Une refonte en 2021 visait à améliorer son utilisation. L’enquête avait pour but d’évaluer l’efficacité des flux de travail entre Sudoc PS et ISSN, en identifiant les problèmes pour rationaliser les processus. Les retours guideront les améliorations ciblées, améliorant la performance et l’expérience utilisateur de l’application. L’enquête est disponible en PDF (en français).

The Sudoc PS network survey on the Cidemis application gathered feedback from November 6-16, 2023, involving 19 regional centre managers. Cidemis, used by around 3,000 libraries for ISSN requests and data corrections, underwent a 2021 overhaul for better usability. The survey aimed to assess workflow efficiency between Sudoc PS and ISSN, identifying issues to streamline processes. The feedback will guide targeted improvements, enhancing the application’s performance and user experience.

Music researchers and all those interested in 20th-century cultural, social, and historical disciplines can now access rare music periodicals with the release of RIPM Jazz Periodicals: Music, History, and Culture from EBSCO. The collection, produced by Le Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale (RIPM), includes articles, reviews, illustrations, interviews, and advertisements from jazz publications spanning the early 20th century to the early 21st century. RIPM Jazz Periodicals is updated with new content annually. Future updates will include international publications documenting the wide-ranging dissemination and perception of this originally American art form.

The DIAMAS (Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication) Academic libraries play important roles in the Diamond Open Access ecosystem. Libraries provide infrastructure and services, as well as training and expert support to institutional publishers, but they can also be publishers in their own right. DIAMAS (Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication) seeks to support them in these roles.

Operating under the auspices of the National Library of Finland, E-library, a shared service for Finnish municipalities, opened in early May. E-library was developed in cooperation with public libraries to meet their needs. Already during its first few weeks, the service has attracted plenty of customers, with the collection immediately put to active use. Books have been borrowed thousands of times, while journals are read tens of thousands of times every week. The acquisition of materials in 3 languages is affected by a number of factors, and the collection is growing every week.

Access to information is vital for sustainable development and equity, but obstacles like internet shutdowns, misinformation, and expensive paywalls hinder this. Libraries historically provide access to knowledge, empowering individuals and communities. In the digital age, librarians can combat misinformation through information literacy and promote open licenses for community storytelling. African librarians are urged to embrace library activism to ensure libraries remain relevant and powerful agents of change. Training programs by AfLIA aim to equip librarians with the skills to advocate for libraries as vital institutions in Africa.

Atla is a membership association of librarians and information professionals, and a producer of research tools, committed to advancing the study of religion and theology. The 2023 Annual Report is now available. ATLA is among the data sources of the ISSN Portal.

The spread of Open Access represents one of the successes of the library and research fields over the last quarter century. It is essential, across the library field, to work together to make a reality of open access through librarians’ advocacy and practice. To help in this, IFLA’s Open Science and Scholarship Advisory Committee is happy to share its Open Access vocabulary, which brings together the most widely used terms and definitions. This is intended to act as a reference guide, providing a route for more librarians into advancing openness.

This article is the fourth in a series of blog posts on AI developments at Ex Libris.

Ex Libris, part of Clarivate, has developed an AI-driven metadata generator that has already been able to enrich Alma Community Zone Bibliographic records for books. The current enrichment is focused on generating metadata for three specific MARC fields: Language (041 and 008), Summary (520), LC subject headings (650). As of February 2024, Ex Libris’ AI metadata generator is live with 200 ebook titles from ProQuest EBook Central. For more details and updates on the evolving status of the project, read the article.

This document summarizes recent work, in particular reports by the SPARC association and the Committee for Scientific Library Services and Information Systems (AWBI) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). These reports document and alert us to the serious threats to the privacy of users of information resources. A growing proportion of publishers have moved towards licensing access to online content that remains hosted on their servers. Therefore, publishers have acquired considerable control over the collection, storage and analysis of library users’ reading and research data, including personal data.

Libraries have a significant role in promoting responsible research practices, including transparency and reproducibility, by leveraging their connections to academic communities and collaborating with stakeholders like research funders and publishers. Recommendations for libraries include:

1) Partnering with researchers to promote a research culture that values transparency and reproducibility,

2) enhancing existing research infrastructure and support,

3) investing in raising awareness and developing skills and capacities related to these principles.