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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 MoreOur 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 …
Read MoreThere’s been a lot of attention to geologic subsidence of late, what with all the sinkholes opening up in Florida, Louisiana and other places. Here in California, we are more …
Read MoreWe are excited to be working with the Ohio State University (OSU) and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) on a new project to explore the contours of a regional …
Read MoreThis research note was co-authored by Brian Lavoie and Constance Malpas. Opportunity cost seems to be the watchword for print book collections these days. The staff, physical space, and other …
Read MoreFor the past year and a half, Dennis and I have been working closely with a group of Research Library Partners and others to develop and test a method for …
Read MoreAt the Spring CNI Taskforce meeting last April, Karen Wetzel (Standards Program Manager at NISO) announced a new piece of work related to “supplemental materials” in journal articles. In the …
Read MoreOver the past few years, OCLC Research has done quite a bit of analytic work based on what my colleague Brian Lavoie refers to as “supply-side” data. Examples include the …
Read MoreThere is a well-known fable about blind men with contrasting views on the anatomy of an elephant, each having examined a separate piece of the beast and independently concluded that …
Read MoreI have just been reading a recent article by Kathy Enger* published in Library & Information Science Research that examines the potential value of citation analysis as a selection tool …
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