Scientific publishers exercise 'soft power' through their role in managing and curating research, but how is this role changing in an open research landscape?

Survey reveals publishers’ tricky task in balancing efficiency and integrity, says Laura Feetham-Walker

In this interview, Madeline Kelly discusses the Western Washington University Libraries’ annual collections evaluation process and what she’s learned about sharing news of subscription cancellations.

A starting point for anyone interested in library technology in Higher Education

The current RLUK strategy, Transforming the Library, runs until the end of 2025. This year, we have been looking to draft a new strategy that will take us to 2030. Predicting the environment in which...

Disappointing offers which ‘miss financial reality’ faced by UK higher education have heightened speculation that institutions will ditch proposed deals

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

Backers seek to increase contributions from authors at institutions beyond the global elite

With several bills that would criminalize librarians across the country, here's a recent history of this legislation and what it means. That, plus this week's book censorship news.

A brief outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website.

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…