ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>UC Davis Library: Landmark Research Project Sheds New Light on the Future of Digital Books. “A landmark research project led by the University of California Libraries provides new insight into what students, faculty and researchers want to be able to do with digital books, and how libraries, publishers and distributors of digital books can better meet those needs within the parameters of U.S. […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/04/uc-davis-library-landmark-research-project-sheds-new-light-on-the-future-of-digital-books/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/04/uc-davis-library-landmark-research-project-sheds-new-light-on-the-future-of-digital-books/</a></p>
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Is it the norm these days for a small college #library not to allow unaffiliated visitors? Maybe I’m old, but I remember when anyone could enter a college library and read, but you had to be a student or faculty member to check out books. Is this policy a consequence of COVID? Or a security concern? I’ve encountered it twice now, and I find it strange and unfriendly. #AcademicLibraries
[Illinois] WIU librarians won’t keep quiet about layoffs.
“...it’s just wrong for students to not have the top quality, professional librarians that other students at other state public universities in this state are receiving,”
#HigherEd #Libraries #Archives #AcademicLibraries #tenure
https://www.tspr.org/tspr-local-news/2024-10-16/wiu-librarians-wont-keep-quiet-about-layoffs
Tri States · WIU librarians won’t keep quiet about layoffs
What if all #libraries folks took off for a day? #publiclibraries stop being childcare & tech support. #academiclibraries have faculty negotiate with publishers for research journals. Lawyers do their LexisNexis searches w/o #lawlibraries & doctors conduct systematic reviews on treatment efficacy w/o #medicallibraries help. Tech engineers do patent searches because #corporatelibraries are empty. All of this and more. What about a week?
Would #library professions deserve reasonable wages then?
Join our next Open Teleconference (Monday, October 21 @ 3:00 pm EDT) to learn about the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI)! NISO's Keondra Bailey and committee co-chairs Ken Varnum (University of Michigan) and Rachel Kessler (Proquest) will be there to talk about developing best practices for a new generation of library discovery services. Free and open to all: https://niso.org/events/2020/02/opentelecon-odi-2024
Join us on September 18 at 1 PM ET for a webinar on OSF Institutions—a tool designed to support open scholarship in academic settings.
This session is ideal for academic librarians and research support staff seeking ways to streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, and ensure compliance with institutional policies—all without disrupting existing processes.
Register: https://cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/register/6017254642725/WN_Yz_cnNwRTGW2FxoZutDMfQ
Let Readers Read: An Open Letter to the #Publishers in #Hachette v. #InternetArchive
Sign the Petition! https://chng.it/JPvFgCWgkW
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Mccart, Richard (2024). #Blockchain Adoption in the Academic #Publishing Ecosystem. RMIT University. Thesis.
figshareBlockchain Adoption in the Academic Publishing EcosystemThis research explores the potential impact of blockchain technology adoption on the electronic academic publishing ecosystem. One of the major problems within this ecosystem is that academic libraries face yearly increases, well beyond the inflation cost for the electronic resources that they are obliged by their universities and researchers to provide, with consequential inordinate profits for the publishers and continuous high costs for academic libraries.
Blockchain technology is one new technology that has the potential to cause a profound change to practitioners’ current business models, affecting the power imbalance between publishers and academic libraries.
The purpose of this research is to examine the capacity that practitioners have to prepare for the introduction of a potentially disruptive technology such as blockchain technology. The thesis addresses and answers the two research questions:
1) What factors are involved in the potential introduction of blockchain technology in the academic publishing ecosystem?
2) How do practitioners prepare for the possible adoption of blockchain technology within the academic publishing ecosystem?
This study uses a grounded theory method to collect and analyse 30 interviews with practitioners in academic libraries, publishers, and blockchain implementers. This grounded theory method follows a ‘middle road’ approach consisting of open coding, selective coding and a novel method of axial coding using diagrams.
This is one of the first qualitative studies to theorize on the possible introduction of blockchain technology into the academic library and publishing ecosystem.
The research examines the possible future direction of blockchain technology adoption within this ecosystem and the 22 concepts involved in its effects on supply chain networks. These concepts and other findings are compared with the existing academic literature.
The thesis argues that blockchain technology should be seen as infrastructure, that blockchain solutions require solving real business problems, and that a holistic solution which is a cooperative business solution for all stakeholders transforms the ecosystem.
The research finds that as yet there is little uptake of blockchain technology within the academic publishing ecosystem. If blockchain technology is introduced to this ecosystem the most suitable applications for blockchain technology are in the credentialling, identification, metadata distribution, and authentication areas.
There is a general reluctance of academic libraries to develop blockchain applications in-house due to cost and lack of suitable personnel, so they are more likely to take on blockchain from a trusted supplier. Publishers have little need of innovations such as blockchain technology that threaten their already lucrative business model.
The major outcome of this study is the APEBA Framework of blockchain adoption, The framework has five groups: ecosystem, content, blockchain adoption, acceptance, and holistic solution. The relationships between these groups are transforms, influences, enhances, absorbs/incorporates/piecemeal, and produces/provides. Other outcomes are a model comparing acceptance factors with resistance factors, and a model of blockchain knowledge compared with the likelihood of blockchain introduction.
By providing this framework and the two models, this research answers the two research questions and helps to prepare practitioners for possible blockchain adoption, and leads to opportunities for efficiencies in their use, payment, and management of electronic resources.