Note from 2020 : Three years on, a lot of what I wrote in here has come to pass, with pretty much every majority discovery system (including library ones) having made big strides…
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) created by Bielefeld University Library in Bielefeld, Germany is probably one of the largest and most advanced aggregator of open access articles…
In honor of this year’s Open Access Week, here’s a personal reflection of my engagement with open access over the 10 years of my career in academic libraries. I also consider the…
(course journal entry assignment, December 2016)
Open Access not only can alter the scholarly publishing landscape, it needs to. Quickly.
At best, while working with periodicals at the Library of the American Library Association (ALA) a decade ago, I…
