The slides and the recording of the following UKSG webinars are now available online:

Managing Open Access in the Library

What is Open Access? An Introduction

Europeana is running four workshops to help define Europeana’s strategy for the period 2015-2020: one for Distribution & Engagement, one for Aggregation, one for Facilitation, and a finalizing Synthesis session.

In October 2013, Choice, the magazine of the Association of College and Research Libraries, offered a webinar titled ”The Role of the Librarian in an Open Access World”. A recording and the slides are now available.

A recent study of humanities faculty at twelve research institutions, led by Harriett Green, English and Digital Humanities librarian at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, aimed to find out more about uses of digital collections among humanities scholars.

Survey results

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.