Libraries

Moving thousands of scholarly treasures out of the fine arts library at UT Austin has faculty members riled. Should a maker space and other meeting areas replace the stacks?

British universities protest, and publisher drops plan for extra charges for articles more than 20 years old.

The consortium, which recently declared bankruptcy, may have found a white knight to continue the work of its Horizon Project.

A widely shared article declaring libraries and archives to be among the fastest-declining industries in America has been debunked.

The scholarly social media platform ResearchGate has reportedly started to take down large numbers of research papers shared in breach of copyright.

At many medical schools, new or renovated libraries have few books. Librarians are divided on the trend.

An Ithaka S+R survey of research libraries reveals a lack of racial and ethnic diversity in the profession, particularly at the upper levels.

Elsevier’s acquisition of Bepress’s institutional repository platform is heralded as a smart move for the publisher, but not all of Bepress’s customers are impressed.