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Publisher peeps give the gift of good publishing data to a librarian / scholarly communication professional in your life. Join OA...

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Many thanks to those like CSP who have already taken the plunge.

https://cdnsciencepub.com/do/10.1139/news.2024.01.16/abs/

Friends, I am very concerned that Ebsco is actually going to build a new platform for Gobi. Surely, this is another sign that we are in the...

Friends, I am very concerned that Ebsco is actually going to build a new platform for Gobi. Surely, this is another sign that we are in the end times...

How old am I? I just saw a mention of SGI in a headline and assumed they were talking about Silicon Graphics which hasn't existed in...

How old am I? I just saw a mention of SGI in a headline and assumed they were talking about Silicon Graphics which hasn't existed in like 15 years....

There is still time for the Ontario government to release the report of the blue ribbon panel on college and university funding this week...

There is still time for the Ontario government to release the report of the blue ribbon panel on college and university funding this week...

My office seems to be the focal point for all the HVAC... I think my hands will just be chunks of ice by the end of the day...

My office seems to be the focal point for all the HVAC... I think my hands will just be chunks of ice by the end of the day...

I have iTunes installed on my work computer. iTunes on Windows has always been dicey but recently it has been just brutal. Today, iTunes...

I have iTunes installed on my work computer. iTunes on Windows has always been dicey but recently it has been just brutal. Today, iTunes took 1.5 hours to launch. It took so long that when it suddenly opened just now I had totally forgotten that I'd tried to open it earlier...

I have very conflicted feelings about the DeGruyter Brill merger....

I have very conflicted feelings about the DeGruyter Brill merger.

https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/ueber-uns/presse/pressemitteilungen/brill-and-de-gruyter-to-create-leading-academic-publisher-in-the-humanities?lang=de

Some light reading for the long weekend.https://doi.org/10.21452/abec.2023.isbn.978-65-993452-6-5

Some light reading for the long weekend.

https://doi.org/10.21452/abec.2023.isbn.978-65-993452-6-5

Office has been set to sauna mode this morning - I've been here for 20 minutes and despite my fan working overtime I feel like I'm...

Office has been set to sauna mode this morning - I've been here for 20 minutes and despite my fan working overtime I feel like I'm coming off in strips...

I checked linkedin today and one of the trending headlines was 'ETA' is latest craze among MBAs... and the first place my brain...

I checked linkedin today and one of the trending headlines was 'ETA' is latest craze among MBAs... and the first place my brain went: Basque separatists are a craze??

Passing along this exciting opportunity: Digital Repositories Librarian at U...

Passing along this exciting opportunity: Digital Repositories Librarian at U Waterloo

https://uwaterloo.ca/library/about/work-library/digital-repositories-librarian

Here's something to think about: how many of the books in your library will never circulate again?I was walking through the stacks today...

Here's something to think about: how many of the books in your library will never circulate again?

I was walking through the stacks today and I was thinking about how like even a decade ago lots of books had a reasonable chance of seeing a next circulation. Now that so much is online I doubt much of our older collection will ever circulate again...

looking at the DEAL/Elsevier P&R agreement and... I dunno, given how fast things are moving 5 years feels like a long time to commit..

looking at the DEAL/Elsevier P&R agreement and... I dunno, given how fast things are moving 5 years feels like a long time to commit..

1 day in, 1 child home sick… at least the COVID test is negative

1 day in, 1 child home sick… at least the COVID test is negative

This is like the ultimate just in case collection... So and so was famous so we'll just buy all their obscure shit and not buy things...

This is like the ultimate just in case collection... So and so was famous so we'll just buy all their obscure shit and not buy things they are known for...

I would love to know what possessed the library in the 70s and 80s to buy all this Swedish literature... that has never circulated...

I would love to know what possessed the library in the 70s and 80s to buy all this Swedish literature... that has never circulated...

Joining AULdom today... and I keep hearing in my head the Talking Heads... "and you may say to yourself 'My God! What have I...

Joining AULdom today... and I keep hearing in my head the Talking Heads... "and you may say to yourself 'My God! What have I done?'"

Part of my job is liaising with vendors and letting them know how we'd like to see their products improved. Sometimes this is a very...

Part of my job is liaising with vendors and letting them know how we'd like to see their products improved. Sometimes this is a very productive and beneficial process. But other times I feel like I'm dealing with Gozer the Gozerian and I'm being asked to choose the form of the destructor...

I really hate licenses that define terms in the individual clauses of the license. Make it easy for everyone put the definitions in their...

I really hate licenses that define terms in the individual clauses of the license. Make it easy for everyone put the definitions in their own section at the top and cut back on the bloat further down.

Dusting off my thespian duds to prepare for a new role as Acting Associate University Librarian, Research on Sept. 1... It's going to be...

Dusting off my thespian duds to prepare for a new role as Acting Associate University Librarian, Research on Sept. 1... It's going to be a time.