This article presents a commentary on the recent resurgence of interest in the practice of rights retention in scholarly publishing. Led in part by the evolving European policy landscape, rights retention seeks to ensure immediate access to accepted manuscripts uploaded to repositories. The article identifies a trajectory in the development of…[Read more]

La formación de profesionales especializados en archivística o gestión documental en Cuba ha sido una necesidad constante. No existe a nivel nacional un programa de formación que permita constituir un referente para llevar a cabo acciones de superación para profesionales que se desempeñan en el sistema institucional de archivos. A partir de lo an…[Read more]

Abstract: “Broadcasting change: in empathic dialogue with Duffy and Jennings’s graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower,” analyzes the medium-specificity of the adaptation by applying a combined theoretical approach that incorporates cognitive narratology and narrative empathy. A discursive dialogue between the two media…[Read more]

Introduction for the Challenges of Metadata Distribution for Open-Access Books session.

An overview of the principles, evolution and context of media and information literacy in university libraries is offered, as well as the fundamental role that professionals who work in libraries play as trainers. It is, therefore, a proposal for a synthesis of the path traveled by the media and information literacy in Higher Education, an…[Read more]

Four colleagues–a faculty member, a digital services librarian, a research librarian, and a curator of Special Collections–take turns describing their role in creating an undergraduate student project around an eighteenth-century almanac that belonged to Marie-Antoinette. In recounting the steps taken, the collaborative process, the student…[Read more]

Las políticas públicas sobre ciencia, tecnología e innovación tienen la función social de dirigir los procesos de construcción y socialización del conocimiento y los hallazgos científicos. Existe en la literatura científica publicada vacíos de conocimiento que contribuyan a fundamentar las políticas públicas en materia de ciencia, tecnología…[Read more]

From the review of the most significant bibliography, the role that the library plays in the internationalization of the university is analyzed. In order to move forward in this field, it would be very convenient that Spanish academic libraries focus their resources and services in terms of internationalization, investigate the different library…[Read more]

El Teatro Bufo es un género de estilo mixto, satírico y musical emparentado con la zarzuela, el sainete, la parodia y el apropósito. Se desarrolló en Cuba durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y constituyen un capítulo muy personal de la vertiente costumbrista de la cultura cubana. En la Universidad Central «Marta Abreu» de Las Villas (Cuba)…[Read more]

ntroducción: Los procesos de enseñanza aprendizaje e investigación científica actualmente requieren de fuentes actualizadas y servicios de información altamente relevante a los investigadores. La Dirección de Información Científico Técnica de la Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas ha identificado como problemática la poca efectividad q…[Read more]

The transition towards open access to research articles has become a
question of how, rather than why and the rise of transformative agreements
has enabled publishers to strike agreements with large institutions and
national research organisations to provide open access and authorship to
their members. In this post, Arthur J. Boston puts…[Read more]