The Role of Metadata in Genealogy
Metadata is data about data, regardless of what the data is about. If you think of the primary data as a library book, then […]
The Fair is Coming
There are many reasons to visit the Frankfurt Book Fair – the most important international trading place for content, from novels and children’s books […]
Call for Applications: NLM/Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) Leadership Fellows Program
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced the 2016-2017 year of the leadership program jointly sponsored with the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries […]
Free, But Fair
Sci-Hub has been in the news a lot lately, but few people truly understand what it is and how it affects academic journals and […]
Tracking the Data
Late in 2014, Scholarly Kitchen shared with us a project with Ithaka S+R to research Amazon’s book sales to academic libraries. Some early results are in and […]
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 […]
Copyright Challenges Webinar
The New York Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) is offering an educational opportunity on June 7, 2016 at 12:00 noon EST. The […]