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More on the UC and Elsevier Split
On February 28, the University of California (UC) announced that it would not be renewing its subscription with Elsevier. In its negotiations, UC was trying to ensure that research produced by its campuses would be freely available to researchers around the globe immediately. According to UC, Elsevier was proposing to charge UC authors large fees on… Continue reading
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In Canada, Artificial Intelligence is coming… for your legal research fees?
Some information vendors have been touting the value and benefit – specifically the apparent efficiency in legal research – of AI for a few years now, and it seems that the Honourable Mr. Justice A.C.R. Whitten of the Ontario Supreme Court of Justice is a believer. In a recent decision [Cass v. 1410088 Ontario Inc.,… Continue reading
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SocArXiv – a new open access legal repository?
Introducing SocArXiv, an institutional repository for social sciences. SocArXiv is modeled on ArXiv, the successful open access preprint repository for scientists. Still in the development stage, SocArXiv is currently a partnership with the University of Maryland and the non-profit Center for Open Science that will be a “free, open access, open source archive for social… Continue reading
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“Beyond Beall’s List: Better Understanding Predatory Publishers”
Of possible interest: http://crln.acrl.org/content/76/3/132.full Margie Maes AALL Vendor Liaison mmaes@aall.org Continue reading
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Information has value
ACRL recently released its Final Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. It reminds us that users, whether college students or not, start with the perception that information is “free” and lack understanding of how personal information is being commodified.The third frame – “Information has value” – addresses the complex values associated with information by… Continue reading
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