Taylor & Francis has launched a new eReader with the following enhancements: The new eReader is now live; the older versions of the eReader will be retired on February 16, 2025. Registered users will receive an email in the coming weeks with instructions on any action they need to take. […]
Hello everyone, For two of our large subscription ebook packages, books are added throughout the year (and their accompanying records are added to the catalogue), but removals happen only twice each year. This is an update on removals that will occur in December 2024 and January 2025. Lists of removed […]
The Library Futures organisation has created the following principles for library ownership of digital books: This proposal is actually quite different from the current environment, in which libraries can purchase perpetual access to digital books but there are still limitations on what they can do with those books. In most […]
As you may be aware, one of the primary methods by which CSU acquires ebooks from university presses is with a demand-driven acquisition (DDA) program with JSTOR. This DDA program functions by allowing us to load into our our catalogue the records for the full frontlists of selected publishers, as […]
You may be aware of MIT Press’s Open Access initiative, Direct to Open (D2O). The University of Alberta Library has been supporting D2O through the Canadian Research Knowledge Network since 2022. D2O has already(!) met their 2024 funding goal and all 79 scholarly monographs will be made openly available. The […]