Research Libraries UK (RLUK) represents 37 research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Posted 24 April 2019
In this Association of Research Libraries white paper expert Wikidata users recommend ways for librarians to use the open knowledge base in advancing global discovery of their collections, faculty, and institutions.
Posted 23 April 2019
Global Alliance of Open Access Scholarly Communication Platforms launched at a session organised by UNESCO.
Posted 23 April 2019
Successful pilot results in early roll-out of ‘In Review'.
Posted 04 April 2019
CUP reaches ‘read and publish' agreement with German academic library consortium.
Posted 04 April 2019
Springer Nature has published its first machine-generated chemistry book.
Posted 02 April 2019
Bryony Ramsden, of the UXLibs conference team, reflects on how inclusivity became an unexpected but critical theme of the 2018 conference.
Posted 21 March 2019
Human computer interaction, machine learning and machine perception are topics receiving most funding.
Posted 20 March 2019
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has released a statement describing the ways in which librarians help advance global scholarship.
Posted 20 March 2019
Melanie Holst describes 'A Million Stories'. The library-led intercultural storytelling project is the largest curated collection of unfiltered personal accounts from refugees in Europe.
Posted 11 March 2019
Over 450 items are now available to academic libraries with more to follow.
Posted 07 March 2019
Two days of discussions about academic publishing covered China's role in OA, Plan S, value propositions, book publishing and much more. The event was not without controversy!
Posted 06 March 2019
Applications should reflect innovative developments in scholarly communication.
Posted 06 March 2019
Major decision reached by UC in push for open access to publicly funded research.
Posted 01 March 2019
Gale, a Cengage company, has released the third installment of its award-winning Archives of Sexuality & Gender series.
Posted 26 February 2019
One million subscriptions achieved in seven months.
Posted 26 February 2019
Partnership has led to thousands of articles being made freely available.
Posted 21 February 2019
The theme of the 20th International Conference on Grey Literature was 'Research Data Fuels and Sustains Grey Literature'.
Posted 07 February 2019
An interesting article in Nature explores the implications for researchers unable to access Elsevier publications.
Posted 06 February 2019
The Library of Congress has been awarded over $500,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to evaluate the health of collections in research libraries.
Posted 06 February 2019
New initiative to help deliver the Dutch ambition of 100% open access by 2020.
Posted 06 February 2019
Titles will join publisher's portfolio in 2020.
Posted 06 February 2019
Two recent discoveries in UK libraries.
Posted 06 February 2019
It's 2019 and ILI is back to celebrate innovative libraries and librarians in our 21st year. We take a look behind the scenes as the Call for Speakers opens, and speaker proposals start to come in.
Posted 28 January 2019
The IFLA Green Library Award is sponsored by De Gruyter.
Posted 25 January 2019