February 2017

Maintaining Access

By |February 7th, 2017

Most readers have no idea of the long-term and collaborative efforts that are made by committed industry players to provide us access to literature, […]

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Challenging Yourself, Literally

By |February 6th, 2017

By now everyone has likely read or heard about the 4-year old girl from Gainesville, Georgia who has read more than 1,000 books already […]

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Industry Giants Are Going All In On Graphic Databases

By |February 6th, 2017

Graph databases are no longer the new guy on the block. They continue to move into mainstream enterprise operations and some big name vendors […]

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Returning Control to Librarians

By |February 3rd, 2017

A new independent provider of cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solutions has launched an online resource access management tool for libraries. Knowledgespeak brought […]

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Taxonomist Needed in D.C.

By |February 2nd, 2017

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, metadata, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with […]

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Publishing and Peer Review

By |February 2nd, 2017

Many articles have been written about the validity of published scientific papers, and not all are about Sci Hub. This problem affects many areas of […]

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Predicting Behavior

By |February 1st, 2017

We have all experienced it. You are browsing a retail website but you don’t purchase anything. Later, the same day or after a week, […]

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The Knowledge to Know

By |February 1st, 2017

Cognition is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and it is usually associated with rote memory. This is usually explained simply as […]

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