The current mechanisms by which scholars and their work are evaluated across higher education are unsustainable and, we argue, increasingly corrosive. Relying on a limited set of proxy measures, current systems of evaluation fail to recognize and reward the many dependencies upon which a healthy scholarly ecosystem relies. Drawing on the work of…[Read more]

HuMetricsHSS strives to cultivate an academy that’s inclusive, open, collaborative, collegial, and generous. A scholarly life well-lived does not allow harassment in any form. This code of conduct governs the environment of our meetings, workshops, interactions, and communications, and exists to remind us of our values as we interact with others.

Het terechte wantrouwen voor malafide tijdschiften heeft ook gevolgen voor kleine uitgevers en voor de openaccessbeweging.

This chapter explores how certain forms of academic publishing—especially scholar-led, community-owned, open-access platforms and presses—might enable better forms of institutional life conducive to personal flourishing and the increase of public knowledge (and to lubricating the important connection between the two), especially at a time when the…[Read more]

In the 40 years since Stanford and Yale undertook the first large scale preservation assessments of library collections, American library collections and responsibilities have grown dramatically, even as funding has failed to keep pace. Evaluating the condition and needs of collections remains essential to preserving collections for current and…[Read more]

50 years after Frazer Poole was named the first Preservation Librarian at the Library of Congress, Preservation Librarianship is a small but mature field in research libraries. Since Poole began his work, the core responsibilities of the position, namely to ensure enduring access to collections acquired and held by libraries, remain essentially…[Read more]

El libro aborda los principales resultados y características del proyecto científico: Sistema de Superación de las Televisiones Locales para Potenciar el Proyecto de desarrollo Local, cuyo objetivo se enfoca en el municipio de Caibarién. El territorio se selecciona debido a que cuenta con un canal local y en el mismo se implementa el Programa Nac…[Read more]

China is one of the few countries worldwide to have had a relatively sophisticated, unbroken tradition of library classification for nearly two thousand years (Zhang, 2003). This may be considered a crowning achievement in the history of library and information services; yet paradoxically, China’s adherence to its literary traditions led to s…[Read more]

In this paper we discuss topic modeling as a tool for resource discovery in emergy fields of study.

This chapter describes how the Penn Libraries began collecting Japanese- and Korean-language comics, focusing largely on manga from Japan aimed at engaging language students and instructors with Japanese library materials. These patrons are a non-traditional demographic typically not targeted by Japanese-language collecting in academic libraries.…[Read more]

A bibliography of art music composed in response to Hurricane Katrina from 2005-2015.