The rumor reported in the Post a few weeks ago got it right – The Times is no longer charging for its web content. They were making money on subscriptions, but they realized, apparently, they can make more on advertising if the doors are open. I’m sure their columnists are also happy that bloggers can [...]

You’re really good at what you do. You’ve been doing it a number of years. People on your campus really respect your skills and knowledge. You might be an expert academic librarian – or maybe not.
I never thought much about expertise in academic librarianship or what it might possibly mean. My guess is that [...]

For all the commercial publishers’ (fake) crowing about peer review, turns out the peer review process in medicine is not working so well lately. At least that’s the conclusion one comes to after reading Robert Lee Hotz’s interesting article in today’s Wall Street Journal, “Most Science Studies Appear to Be Tainted.”
Hotz references John P. [...]

[Note: I am pleased to introduce Lanny Arvan, my colleague at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who sometimes comments on ACRLog and who is always one of my top choices for a Friday afternoon coffee to explore issues related to higher education, libraries, education technologies, campus politics, and other important topics. We shared the experience [...]

The New York Times (in its Media & Advertising section, mind, not its Science section) reports that Reed Elsevier has come up with a way to provide free medical information to those poor oncologists who can’t afford multiple subscriptions and aren’t connected to a research institution with a library. They can sign up for a [...]