This morning’s CHE announces the launch of the newest collaboration between Syracuse’s Dave Lankes and Washington’s Mike Eisenberg – the Credibility Commons – a research project aimed at helping people to understand the many issues related to the credibility of information found on the Internet and to develop tools aimed at helping people to locate [...]

As a follow up to yesterday’s post on scholarly publishing and open access, here’s a link to a good article that appeared a few days ago in USA Today. It’s a layman’s introduction, written by a former employee of the American Chemical Society, to the scholarly publishing crisis and the possibilities of change created by [...]

Did you wake up thinking about the scholarly publishing crisis this morning? Probably not, because most of us are paying attention to other issues and taking for granted that someone else is doing something about the crisis. Well, this past Friday I did have the scholarly publishing crisis on my mind because I was going [...]

The New York Times has an op-ed piece by Edward Tenner that propsoses this paradox: Google has made it possible to find good information easily, so students have become less skilled at research. Nothing new in that argument, really, and it’s nice to see the words “information literacy” on the Sunday op ed pages, but [...]

As reported on Library Journal’s news page:
Ross Atkinson, the Cornell University, NY, associate university librarian for collections, has died at the age of 60 after a lengthy battle with cancer. Most recently, Atkinson played a large role in Cornell University Library’s Janus Conference, which focused on collection development. Over the years, he was heavily [...]