This week’s post was meant to be a treatise on libraries role in students’ journey to information and reading habits – and we will get to that. We were overwhelmed by well-intentioned people referring us to this article: The Mistrust of Science By Atul Gawande  June 10, 2016. It is a part-scathing and part-hopeful piece Read More

The promise of summer is time to read! Wherever you may be reading this summer, here are some lists to ignite your reading imagination: CUA Popular Reading titles 12 New Books We’re Reading This Summer (and 6 Not So New) From Publisher’s Weekly – Best Books Summer 2016 Bill Gates weighs in with Your Summer Read More

The National Information Standards Organization NISO has been working under an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to “explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of potential metrics” in scholarly publishing. This work focuses on “new assessment metrics, which include usage-based metrics, social media references, and network behavioral analysis. In Read More

If you are following the news and understand what is going on in the world of scholarly publishing and libraries – you’re a better man than I, Gunga Din!¹ It gets curiouser and curiouser. ² In early May, CrossRef announced Members will soon be able to assign Crossref DOIs to preprints . This is seen as Read More

It is the season of reports and trends. This week we highlight the STM Future Trends 2020 provides publishers insights on the currents affecting them.   — Kimberly Hoffman

Happy end of your semester, academic year, or college experience from your CUA Librarians! Happy summer and visit a library! No one spends time here without being changed. From “If Librarians Were Honest” by Joseph Mills “… a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work….”!!!! – Benjamin Franklin – If librarians were honest, they wouldn’t Read More

A Fesitval of Schoalrship: University Research Day shines a spotlight on students and faculty advancing knowledge April 15, 2016.

Last week, CUA Research Day had interesting research on mindfulness. As we all gear up (pay heed to that motion metaphor!) for the end of an academic semester, here are some readings on note taking and attention; mind mapping; and the art of slow! Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away And there are two hypotheses Read More

Join us on Friday, April 15 for the inaugural CUA Research Day! What do all the CUA Research Day presenters and poster participants have in common? They started with a question and they did research! The recently published Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2015 findings include that while the discovery process has many access points, Read More

Academic research publishing may be at a tipping point (the critical point in a situation, process, or system beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place.) A new Slate (daily web magazine) article asks, Why Is It So Expensive to Read Academic Research? If nothing else, the article has a readable explanation Read More