(1 Jul 2025) Danny Kingsley, Director, Library Services (Information) at Deakin University, and well known to all of us in the open access community, has posted this blog as a companion piece to two talks she gave recently, one for the Australian Scholarly Communications Community of Practice (AuSCCoP) (recording here) Danny takes us through the major disruptions…
(20 Sep 2021) Librarians should be given more support and credit for their research contributions, which should be costed into grant proposals, according to Research Libraries UK (RLUK), a consortium of research libraries in the UK and Ireland. A new report commissioned by RLUK and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) says libraries are…
(5 Feb 2020) The “Critical Roles for Libraries in Today’s Research Enterprise” symposium took place in Washington, DC on December 11, 2019, its report is now available online. This report represents a summary of the symposium, including speaker slides and biographies, invited expert commentaries, and notes from the facilitated group discussions. The report is available here.…
(12 July 2016) With advances in computational methods and the proliferation of data sources, text and data mining offers exciting new directions for research. Neil Stewart, Jane Secker, Chris Morrison and Laurence Horton look at the role of libraries in providing support to researchers for these projects, particularly to help with rights issues and to digitise…
(12 March 2015) Nanyang Technological University Libraries, Singapore, invites applications for the position of Librarian or Senior Librarian in its Library Technology Group. The successful candidate will not only support stable, seamless access to library resources and services, but will also have the opportunity to explore and develop new technologies in the areas of eBook…
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) have announced a Joint Task Force on Librarians’ Competencies in Support of E-Research and Scholarly Communication. Rapid changes in technology and associated shifts in research and scholarly…