H-Net Book Channel: Call for Posts: Scholarly Communication and Libraries, Librarianship, and Information Sciences

The H-Net Book Channel's blog, Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications, has issued a call for posts on topics related to scholarly communication and libraries, as well as for book reviewers.

Call for Posts: Scholarly Communication and Libraries, Librarianship, and Information Sciences

A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.


Post by Dawn Durante, assistant editorial director of the University of North Carolina Press and member of the Feeding the Elephant Editorial Team

ARL and Ithaka S+R Explore Copyright and Streaming Audiovisual Content in US Academic Libraries

"Today the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Ithaka S+R released Copyright and Streaming Audiovisual Content in the US Context, by Danielle Cooper and Katherine Klosek.The paper summarizes the experiences of 12 academic libraries in accessing streaming media for teaching, learning, and research purposes, including discussion of the barriers to access and use imposed by certain license terms."

2022: The Elephant in Review

Post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications Editorial Team.


As another year draws to a close, the Feeding the Elephant editorial team is reflecting on all that we learned this year from university press business models to tips for working with your editor to reviews of new books on scholarly communications. 

CJAL Special Issue: Special Issue on The place of teaching in academic librarians’ work

The Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship (CJAL) is seeking  submissions for a special issue on the place of teaching in academic librarians' work. CJAL is an open access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL). The deadline for proposals is December 20, 2022.

To learn more: https://cjal.ca/index.php/capal/announcement/view/872

Call for Posts for Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications

Have you heard of Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications? Feeding the Elephant publishes regularly about topics as varied as switching to a career in academic publishing to subjectivity to working with copyeditors to responding to peer review comments. The goal of Feeding the Elephant is to put scholars, publishers, and librarians in conversation with each other, anad we are currently working to bring more posts related to librarians and their work.

What Do Library-Publisher Relations Look Like in 2022?

This post is from  the AUPresses Library Relations Committee (Ana Maria Jimenez-Moreno, Jason Fikes, Tracy Kellmer, Stephen Hull, Joell Smith-Borne, Saleem Dhamee, and Annie Johnson). The Library Relations Committee’s core commitment is to make contact with library professionals, discussions, and organizations to deepen our understanding of how together librarians and publishers can create a healthy scholarly ecosystem. This post is being concurrently published on the Scholarly Kitchen blog.

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