News for Library Nerds, January 31, 2014

A Digital Journalism instructor won’t allow ebooks in her class. While I love my ereader for recreational novel reading, there's a lot to be said for print when you're in class.

Middle States Commission on Higher Education is planning to remove references to the library from several accreditation standards.

Questions a prospective parent (and academic) will ask about the library when visiting colleges (interestingly, none of the questions are about the collection . . . ).

Student PIRGs report highlights the choices students make because of high textbook costs and advocates for open textbooks.

How many articles are open access these days? A study of Scopus finds that OA is becoming more popular (even if some of it isn’t exactly up to snuff in terms of copyright law), but access is still very volatile. While it's interesting to know just how much is out there, there's still the question of how much the average searcher can find. In that gap is my paycheck, I guess.