Libraries struggle with Discovery (not much you don’t know here, but it’s still a nice summary from the Chronicle).
And the comparison study of students using different discovery tools (that is cited in the article above). Interesting
takeaway: EDS ranks scholarly articles more highly than Summon,
shifting the type of resources used by students. Summon places a lot of
newspaper articles at the top.
The little lies that fill the Internet (you’re not really “buying” that digital music, after all).
The rise of the paperback! (A little bit of a history lesson.)
The constant evolution of the library and its place in the digital age.
A reporter sends a plagiarized paper full of gobbledygook to several predatory journals, and gets several offers to publish. Some predatory publishers are even buying impact factors to burnish their reputations.
Elsevier asks Harvard to take down 23 articles published in Elsevier journals. In response, an academic has a “modest” proposal to deal with Elsevier.
The British National Archive is crowdsourcing the classification of millions of WWI materials, letting the public add metadata so researchers can use the collection more effectively.
Pathe newsreels are now available on YouTube. Everything from the Hindenberg to the flea circus!
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