The final of the BBC quiz programme University Challenge will be broadcast in the UK next Monday. Alongside the knowledge and expertise of the eight students who have reached the final, the competition reveals an unusual role that a university librarian can play in supporting their institution, writes Sian Harris
New US scholarship programme aims to attract underrepresented racial and ethnic groups to archival science and special collections librarianship
The eBooks on Demand project is one of three projects selected to receive the 2013 American Library Association Presidential Citation for Innovative International Library Projects
Ryerson University Library, Canada wins the CLA/OCLC Award for Innovation Technology for its RULA Book Finder application
SAGE supports library travel grant for ALPSP International Conference 2013
Ingram Content Group and EBL - Ebook Library have announced an agreement that will allow libraries to search and purchase EBL e-book content on the Ingram OASIS content platform for academic libraries worldwide
The Digital Public Library of America launches today - but celebrations to mark the event are being postponed because of the bomb attacks at the Boston Marathon earlier this week
Libraries are expected to be able to increase their visibility by registering basic local information with a new free service
Innovative has announced that more than 100 academic and law school libraries in the US, Canada, and Europe went live with the Sierra Services Platform in the first quarter of 2013
From 6 April six major libraries in the UK and Ireland will have the right to collect, preserve and provide long-term access to a copy of every UK electronic publication
Interviews for this article have been adapted from recent PhaidraCon roundtable events and from upcoming 2023 editions of EpistemiCast
Patrick Hargitt explains why 2022 became the year that accessibility got serious
Joseph Koivisto and Jordan Sly from the University of Maryland discuss the implications of the publications-as-data model
Despite the collective and decisive step changes in enabling the transition to open access this year, we should not be complacent, writes Susie Winter
Thomas Shaw and Andrew Barker from Lancaster University Library discuss the realities, challenges and future impact of open access in the research community
It’s not a question of if, but how. The future of scholarly publishing is open, yet the debate on how to accelerate the growth of open access continues
