As our academic library budgets evolve, librarians have to make difficult decisions about what resources to spend that money on every year. Looking at patron usage of our resources, both tangible and electronic, can help ...

e-Journals often get transferred between publishers, whether because of change in commercial ownership (by acquisitions and disposals) or because the owner (frequently a society) takes the opportunity to partner with a ...

The authors discovered faculty opinions about open access by employing Q methodology, a research method combining qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze subjects' attitudes about a given topic. Q methodology, using ...

Technical services departments in academic libraries have long struggled to communicate effectively with other library departments, particularly public services departments. As academic libraries acquire large numbers of ...

The academic e-book market is in the midst of rapid change and development. While e-books are still a relatively small percentage of library collections, sales are growing and libraries appear ready to ramp up their e-book ...

Increasingly, our digital lives have moved off hard drives and into the cloud. What are the privacy implications of cloud-based services such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter? Who is watching us, and – more importantly – ...

Confused about copyright? Do you know if you hold copyrights to your own work or wondering how to use copyrighted materials in your teaching? Copyright is a valuable asset for academic authors, so it benefits faculty ...