In April 2022, there were assertions made in College and Research Libraries News about the betrayal of Africa by the openness movement.

Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication....

In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices -- protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed ...

Do bibliometric performance metrics, which underpin global higher education policies, also provide a means for authoritarian states to coerce academics?

In Asia, open access adoption is accelerating, yet the legal and structural underpinnings of this openness remain fragile, with significant licensing and copyright confusion.

They main goal for linked data should be to improve metadata operations. In this recent OCLC RLP Products Insights session, metadata experts met with OCLC product management to explore challenges, opt...

Todd Carpenter describes the new 2029 STM Trends report, which provides a vision and a bridge to the future for the community

La recherche d’informations et la revue de littérature académique n’échappent pas à la récente vague d’intelligence artificielle générative, promesse d’assistance et de productivité. Durant les deux a...

Burdur Provincial Public Library in Türkiye's southern Anatolian city of Burdur has been named one of the world's top seven libraries in the...

The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) acknowledges the complex business decisions e-book vendors face in today’s evolving market. However, as customers, we firmly believe that these decisions must align with the core values and mission of libraries and library consortia. As representatives of approximately 200 library consortia worldwide, ICOLC is committed to advocating partnerships that prioritize the needs of libraries and their communities.

Clarivate recently announced that it is shifting to a "subscription-based access strategy," meaning that it will no longer allow academic libraries to purchase perpetual licenses to content.

Repositories for academic papers often do not reflect retractions and corrections to published papers, can this be resolved?

Proquest recently announced that it will be changing its business model to move away from print textbooks and monographs, solely to ebooks via a subscription-based model similar to a “Big Deal”. Ke…

Siobhan Haimé takes a look at detail the Clarivate announcement and its practical (and possibly unintentional transformational) effects.

Press Release: New study finds large print books boost student literacy development and social-emotional health. n an era when students and teachers alike spend hours a day reading on screens, large ...

Bibliographic databases should support innovation and experimentation. Here, we offer four criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases. We urge the global research community to use databases that support and do not hinder innovation in scholarly communication and research assessment.