A Familiar Collection of Historical Newspapers Gets a New Home
Accessible Archives is now part of Coherent Digital’s History Commons. Here’s what’s changed.
Accessible Archives is now part of Coherent Digital’s History Commons. Here’s what’s changed.
In this interview, Madeline Kelly discusses the Western Washington University Libraries’ annual collections evaluation process and what she’s learned about sharing news of subscription cancellations.
Cabell’s Journalytics and Predatory Reports helps researchers—and the librarians who support them—find appropriate venues for publication and avoid those known to exhibit predatory behaviors.
Gale’s Environmental History: Colonial Policy and Global Development, 1896–1993 makes available an important collection of primary source documents related to the environmental consequences of Britain’s colonial policies. As a single product, however, it doesn’t quite cohere.
Despite some gaps in coverage and shortcomings in the user experience, EBSCO’s LitBase impresses with the size and diversity of its collection.
The number of tools available to help library staff identify potential research misconduct is rapidly expanding. Here are some recommendations.
Remembering Ward Shaw, the transformative library leader who died in early July.
Despite the limited diversity of its repertoire and its rudimentary search functionality, Art Song Transpositions offers an impressive level of quality at a competitive price.
So far, Octopus has seen limited user engagement. But with its thoughtful design and ethical approach, the platform makes a strong case for itself.
Not long ago, interlibrary loan for ebooks seemed impossible. In this interview, Michael Rodriguez talks to Marc Hoffeditz and Molly Dupere about what’s changed and what the future might hold.
As part of ProQuest’s Historical Black Newspapers Collection, the Los Angeles Sentinel archive provides access to 70 years of stories from one of the most influential Black-owned papers in the United States
ProQuest One Sustainability successfully orients users in the subject of sustainability and connects them with content at all levels of complexity. But the quality of the historical material varies, and some of the content is freely available elsewhere.
AlliedCareer, from EBSCOlearning, is a useful tool for jobseekers considering the field of allied health or allied health professionals planning their next career step.
In today’s information-saturated, privacy-challenged, AI-transforming online search landscape, DuckDuckGo has new relevance.
Paulist Press: Ancient Christian Writers makes seminal works by major Christian theologians from the late-biblical and patristic periods searchable and accessible online.
As Katina covers the integration of AI into academic search tools and other library products, this guide offers useful background information on the technology.
AI add-ons incorporating retrieval-augmented generation are everywhere in academic search. But how—and how well—do they work? Our reviewer put Primo Research Assistant, Web of Science Research Assistant, and Scopus AI to the test.
The Open Access Tracking Project offers a real-time alert system for open access news and information. With its founder contemplating retirement, now is the time to strengthen its infrastructure, improve its user experience, and secure its long-term future.
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical, a narrow but useful index of references to science, technology, and medicine in popular British periodicals published between 1800 and 1900, was shaped by expert scholarly insight.