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2017 Library Trends from the NMC Horizon Report

Last week, New Media Consortium published its annual Library Edition report [1]. See below the trends, challenges and developments related to the technology adoption in the academic libraries. While eager to read the details, don’t jump over the executive summary that identifies ten themes in the academic library’s landscape – wherein lays the foundation of the 18 topics presented above. More in depth reading on..

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Content break-down and its impact

A month ago I came across an article that looked at content in a completely different way. Dominik Grau, the Chief Innovation Officer of Ebner Group, writes about the transformation of his company from a 200 old year “print-centric publisher into a content and services company with a large e-commerce engine as one of the..

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Open Access articles rush: oaDOI and Google Scholar

Finding open access article versions of the ones behind the paywall seems pretty easy with Google Scholar. Yet, with a new identifier, the oaDOI (https://oadoi.org), Impact Story promises going beyond Google Scholar for articles with a DOI. Short history: last summer Impact Story, one of the main players in altmetrics, challenged everyone to make a profile on their website and check out..

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