Multiple paths to Open library infrastructure
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts exploring the Open landscape and OCLC’s place within it. This post presents some reflections on library management systems and different …
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Sustainable stewardship: WorldCat as a membership good
This is the third in a series of blog posts exploring the Open landscape and OCLC’s place within it. This post describes the distinctive ‘membership good’ business model that underpins …
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OCLC’s role in the Open Access ecosystem
This is the second in a series of blog posts exploring the vast terrain of ‘Open’ as it relates to libraries. The first post in this series provided a broad overview …
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Open everything, everywhere, all at once
This is the first in a series of blog posts exploring the evolving Open landscape, library roles and OCLC’s place within it. This post provides a general overview of Open, …
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Scaling Innovation in Higher Education: The University Innovation Alliance (UIA)
Colleges and universities have a long tradition of competing and collaborating with one another. Institutions compete for resources (enrollment, faculty and student talent, grant revenues, etc.) as well as reputation. …
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Managing the Collective Collection: research libraries and legal deposit networks in the UK and Ireland
Brian Lavoie and I have just wrapped up a project examining the collective collection of a number of important research libraries in the UK and Ireland. The key findings from …
Read MoreResearcher profiles and the evolving scholarly record
Via Twitter, I recently came upon an arXiv pre-print looking at the institutional distribution of highly-cited researchers, as identified by Thomson Reuters. One of the issues the authors raise is …
Read MoreSliding scale: mapping local, group and system-wide library infrastructure
Recently, we looked at how Sankey diagrams might be used to visualize the flow of library resources within and across inter-lending networks. It was a useful exercise, but it left …
Read MoreVisualizing Network Flows: Library Inter-lending
As part of our joint research project with the CIC Center for Library Initiatives and the OSU Library, we’re examining inter-lending flows within and outside of the 13-member CIC consortium. …
Read MoreConcentration, Diffusion, Centers & Flows
Our 2012 mega-regions analysis revealed a notable feature of the library landscape in North America: the apparent scarcity of print inventory varies significantly depending upon the scale at which it …
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