KMWorld 2016 – Still Time to Register

By |October 19th, 2016|Access Insights, News, reference|Comments Off on KMWorld 2016 – Still Time to Register

KMWorld 2016 is just a few week away. In Washington D.C. on November 14-17, 2016, chief information officers, information professionals, content managers, and knowledge […]

Webinar Addresses Creative Commons

By |October 12th, 2016|Business strategy, News, reference|Comments Off on Webinar Addresses Creative Commons

Association of American Publisher’s Professional & Scholar’s Publishing Books Committee is bringing guest speakers Terence P. Keegan and David S. Korzenik from the law firm of Miller Korzenik Sommers LLP […]

New President for Association of Research Libraries

By |October 4th, 2016|News, reference|Comments Off on New President for Association of Research Libraries

Mary M. Case recently began a one-year term as president of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Prior to her election, Case served as the university librarian […]

New Approach to Peer Review

By |September 23rd, 2016|News, reference|Comments Off on New Approach to Peer Review

The open access journal, BMC Psychology, will launch the first randomized controlled trial to find out if a ‘results free’ peer-review process can help […]

Frankfurt Book Fair Coming Soon

By |September 21st, 2016|News, reference|Comments Off on Frankfurt Book Fair Coming Soon

The Frankfurt Book Fair is scheduled for October 19-23, 2016. Are you ready? With 275,000 visitors, 7,275 international exhibitors and 9,300 journalists and bloggers, Frankfurt […]

New Resources for Scholars

By |September 13th, 2016|indexing, News, reference|Comments Off on New Resources for Scholars

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has introduced a new product to meet the increasing demands of scholarly research. The collection includes five multidiscipline databases, each […]

Libraries, Open Source, and eBooks – Oh My!

By |September 7th, 2016|News, reference|Comments Off on Libraries, Open Source, and eBooks – Oh My!

An open source server-software developer is working on a project at the New York Public Library (NYPL) that is intended to liberate every part […]

The Origins of Labor Day

By |September 5th, 2016|Featured, reference|Comments Off on The Origins of Labor Day

Every year in the United States, summer is unofficially kicked off with Memorial Day. The pools open, the BBQ grills are fired up and […]

The Challenge of Costly Textbooks

By |August 29th, 2016|Access Insights, Featured, reference|Comments Off on The Challenge of Costly Textbooks

It’s back to school season and that means school supply shopping, a task I have never heard a single person rejoice about, and each […]