Carnegie Mellon University and Elsevier Thursday announced a new agreement to radically change how the institution pays to read and publish research. Instead of paying separately to access Elsevier’s catalog of paywalled content and publish open-access articles in Elsevier journals, Carnegie Mellon will pay one flat fee for both.
Postdoctoral Fellow Shaun Yon-Seng Khoo at Université de Montréal suggests the possibility of transforming subscription payments into article processing charges (APC) to produce articles free for all to read.
Molecular biologists Peter Walter and Dyche Mullins describe the changing relationship between scholars and commercial publishers like Elsevier and propose steps that individual academics can take to help their communities escape from what they characterize as a parasitic relationship.
In this ongoing series, Dean Elaine Westbrooks of the University of North Carolina Library explains why the status quo in scholarly publishing is unsustainable, and how UNC will begin to confront the issue.
Curated by the Small Special Collections Library’s Reference Team, the exhibition takes a deeper dive into the closed catacombs of UVA’s archival nether world. Leaving no page unturned or manuscript box unopened, they have ferreted out the most frightening and ghoulish collections.
An analog resource for creating hands-on learning activities and sparking class discussions.
Fillable form to help focus a research question and guide keyword development. The objective is the generation of searchable keywords that may be used to gather resources. Use online version or download PDF.
For decades, Patrick Oliphant’s political cartoons filled the editorial pages of newspapers across the United States. Now, for the first time, an extensive collection of those cartoons, as well
University of North Carolina Libraries is poised to resist Elsevier’s marketing model where taxpayers fund research and pay a second time to access it.
With an expiration date of Dec. 31 looming, the University of Buffalo holds town halls on potential outcomes of SUNY Libraries Consortium negotiations with Elsevier.