(24 Apr 2024) Since the Great Recession, librarians have learned as best they can to manage an annual serials subscription model that inevitably outpaced flat or declining collection budgets. Many librarians lauded the development of Open Access (OA) publishing models, which offered, at least initially, to help solve the problem of an unsustainable and inequitable scholarly…
(4 Dec 2023) LJ editors and columnists select 149 titles across 15 categories as our best books of the year. Categories include: Pop Fiction Romance Crime Fiction Horror SF/Fantasy Literary Fiction World Literature Short Stories Graphic Novels Poetry Arts & Humanities Cookbooks Memoir & Biography Social Sciences Science & Technology Check out the list…
Flat budgets, price increases, and a reliance on status journals for tenure and promotion keep familiar pressures on the serials marketplace (23 April 2018) Whether applied to a failed business arrangement or an ancient form of torture, “death by a thousand cuts” signifies a larger outcome that occurs as the cumulative result of multiple smaller…
The Library Journal’s annual roundup of the best databases was published 7 November 2013 in the LJ. The list reveals high-profile new databases and classic titles that command our attention. Elizabeth Michaelson does the honours here
Gale, part of Cengage Learning has announced that its eBook platform, Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL), was voted Best Overall Database by the readers of Library Journal magazine. The company plans to commemorate the win with an unprecedented giveaway. “We’re so excited to hear that our customers love GVRL so much that we want to…
ebrary®, a ProQuest business, announced 1 November that its flagship eBook subscription collection, Academic Complete™, has been awarded the title of Library Journal’s Best E-book Database. The award, which was voted on by numerous reference librarians, further strengthens Academic Complete’s position as the best valued eBook database in the industry and marks the second highly…