Second Lady (Nigeria) urges librarians to sharpen skills

TheSecond Lady of Nigeria, Matilda Amissah-Arthur, highlighted OA yesterday at aninternational workshop for librarians. "Mrs Amissah-Arthur said...the services [of a library] had evolved from the days of closed stacks, through shelf browsing, card catalogues and OPACs to open access and institutional repositories...."

Wake up to what the ‘article of the future’ is really all about

 

Thought-provoking blog post by Richard Padley
"If we were called upon, in the 21st Century, to redesign the ecosystem for scholarly communication from the ground up – tabla rasa, greenfield site – would we end up with what we have today? I doubt it. And I doubt whether anyone in our industry, even the most technophobic and heavily invested in the status quo, really believes that to be the case."