Bo-Christer Björk has published "Open Access—Are the Barriers to Change Receding?" in Publications. Here's an excerpt: The move from subscription only publishing of scholarly articles to open access has been much slower than previously anticipated by many Open Access (OA) advocates. Despite the many advantages that OA offers, this particular branch of E-commerce imposes several [...]

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Self-Censorship on Facebook, http://t.co/JMsDcaawIE When the Rebel Alliance Sells Out, http://t.co/vpuHJTIFyi Change Computer History Forever: Well, Here We Are –April 13, 2013 [Internet Archive], http://t.co/k0w3aDVF1w Simon & Schuster Launches Ebook Lending Program With NYC Libraries, http://t.co/nJFdvD5N9r CARL Condemns Access Copyright's Lawsuit against York University, http://t.co/Uhd7nIcs9V University of Tennessee Signs Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE), [...]

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Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Awards Include Grants for Digital Curation, http://t.co/FRb6Jx1QLW Data Reuse and the Open Data Citation Advantage, https://t.co/AS6ar5gwm0 Digital Humanities and Digital Preservation, http://t.co/tXxKdgS1fB Digital Preservation Management Workshop, http://t.co/NIfYL4B8jV Digital Scholarship | DigitalCurationNews

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ACLS Humanities E-Book has released Perception Analysis of Scholarly E-Books in the Humanities at the Collegiate Level. Here's an excerpt: At present, there is significant market confusion regarding e-book selections in the academic marketplace, particularly in the humanities. University acquisition librarians, unsure of what the offerings actually are, have found themselves unsure of where to [...]

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The New York Society Library is recruiting a Head of Systems. Here's an excerpt from the ad: Responsibilities include network management; planning, implementation, training, and troubleshooting library technologies; participation in the management of the Library's web, social networking, and digitization initiatives; and routine security and hardware maintenance. The Head of Systems supervises a department of [...]

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ACRL has made the entire College & Research Libraries archive freely available. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: "Digitizing the archives of the premier research journal for academic librarianship provides a tremendous new asset for our profession," said ACRL President Steven J. Bell of Temple University. "Creating and sharing this rich resource demonstrates ACRL's ongoing [...]

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The Hampshire College Library Center is recruiting a Systems & Discovery Librarian. Here's an excerpt from the ad: Reporting to the Director of the Library in a collaborative team environment, the Systems & Discovery Librarian will design, implement, and assess (metadata-reliant) processes and other knowledge discovery strategies to enable access to research resources in all [...]

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Carol Tenopir, Robert J. Sandusky, Suzie Allard, and Ben Birch have published "Academic Librarians and Research Data Services: Preparation and Attitudes" in the latest issue of IFLA Journal. Here's an excerpt: Research funding bodies recognize the importance of infrastructure and services to organize and preserve research data, and academic research libraries have been identified as [...]

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