Today’s Hot Type column in the Chronicle of Higher Education features discussion of PLoS ONE and an open review experiment at Nature. PLoS ONE calls itself “a new way of communicating peer-reviewed science and medicine.” The idea is that any study based on valid methods that passes muster with a single member of the editorial [...]

On Monday, January 15 the University of Michigan officially announced they had appointed a new University Librarian and Dean of University Libraries. Their choice for the position is an academic well known to many academic librarians because of his valuable research and publication in the area of scholarly communication, but he comes not from the [...]

This year’s candidates for the position of ACRL Vice-President/President-Elect, Erika Linke of Carnegie Mellon University and Scott Walter of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have provided to ACRLog their official candidate statements. More information about both candidates is available at the ACRL website. The statements are designed to give ACRL members some perspective on [...]