The Semantics of Words
Do you have one of those friends who has words they can’t stand to hear? Or maybe you are one who shudders at hearing […]
Recent Acquisition Has Some Concerned About Access
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has been acquired by Elsevier with the promise that it will be further developed with Mendeley, Elsevier’s scholarly […]
The Next Generation
Sci-Hub is the piracy network for academic journals and it has many a publisher and author pointing fingers and calling names. Researchers are likely […]
Organizing Knowledge
Humans classify and categorize everything from types of writing instruments to breeds of animals. Marjorie Hlava in her Taxobook states “you could even say […]
Special Libraries Association Conference Features Taxonomy Cafe
The Taxonomy Cafe is taking place at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) annual conference in just a few weeks. In this unique workshop, presenters will give […]
New Director of World’s Largest Library
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced the appointment of Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan as the next director of the National Library of […]
The Taxonomy Cafe
In order to continue preparing Special Libraries Association (SLA) taxonomists for more advanced implementations, we have asked a number of people to share their […]
Strengthening the Data
A leading index of open-access journals may shrink by more than one-quarter after an effort to exclude questionable and inactive publishers. This interesting information came […]