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May 05 - 06, 2016 | ITHAKA | Event
ITHAKA is Attending Agile & Beyond
ITHAKA will be exhibiting at Agile & Beyond, the premier annual Agile software development conference in the Great Lakes region.
Register here to attend. ITHAKA representatives will be available to talk about exciting tech careers at ITHAKA!
April 22, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Christine Wolff at the Texas Library Association Conference
Christine Wolff will present on "Using the Ithaka S+R Local Surveys to Understand Your Users" at the the 2016 Texas Library Association Conference in Houston. Christine will be joined by Debra Kolah of Rice University and Posie Aagaard of the University...
April 21, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Roger Schonfeld at Allen Press’s Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing Seminar
Roger Schonfeld will deliver the keynote address at Allen Press's Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing Seminar in Washington DC on April 21. Schonfeld will talk on "Adaption—The Changing Nature of Libraries."
Abstract: Sometimes survival means being...
April 11, 2016 | JSTOR | Event
UKSG 2016 Annual Conference
JSTOR's Alex Humphreys and Kate Wittenberg of Portico will be speaking during breakout...
April 06, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Roger Schonfeld at ER&L; Conference
Roger Schonfeld is on the "Researching Researchers: Developing Evidence-Based Strategy for Improved Discovery and Access" panel at the 11th Annual Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference in Austin, Texas.
Leading libraries, publishers, and...
April 03, 2016 | JSTOR | Event
American Conference on Irish Studies
Anne Ray of JSTOR will be participating in a round table, Irish Collections In The...
March 23, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Library Acquisitions Pilot: Looking At The Data
In an earlier blog post we discussed a methodology we are testing to gauge whether a cross institutional analysis of library acquisitions may be possible in the future by leveraging next generation integrated library systems (ILS), which store libraries...
March 23, 2016 | JSTOR | News
Data Release | March 24, 2016
March 2016 Release Content
NEW TITLES (...
March 23, 2016 | JSTOR | Event
TEDxYDL
Put Humans at the Center of Design
There are a lot of things in this world—websites,...
March 22, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Future Trends Forum with Special Guest Deanna Marcum
Deanna Marcum will be the special guest at Bryan Alexander's Future Trends Forum on Tuesday, March 22 at 11 am.
Bryan Alexander, founder of the online blog Future Trends in Technology and Education has begun this weekly forum to enliven the discussion...
March 21, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Higher Ed Themes of SXSWedu
Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend SXSWedu, an education conference in Austin, Texas, focused on cutting edge practices and technology. I spent most of my time in Austin attending higher education panels and exhibits, and came away feeling...
March 16, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Survey Administration Best Practices
Since 2000, Ithaka S+R has run the US Faculty Survey, which tracks the evolution of faculty members’ research and teaching practices against the backdrop of increasing digital resources and other systemic changes in higher education. Starting in 2012,...
March 16, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Survey Administration Best Practices: Designing Survey Questionnaires
Since 2000, Ithaka S+R has run the US Faculty Survey, which tracks the evolution of faculty members’ research and teaching practices against the backdrop of increasing digital resources and other systemic changes in higher education. Starting in 2012,...
March 14, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
The Problems of Accreditation of For-Profit Institutions
In my most recent blog post, I compared financial aid data for the 2013-14 academic year with that of previous years. One interesting finding was that the share of Pell enrollments at for-profit institutions has declined by 22 percent since it peaked in...
March 14, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Finding and Keeping an Audience in a Competitive Environment
Registration is now open for "Finding and Keeping an Audience in a Competitive Environment." The workshop will take place at the Charles E. Young Research Library at the University of California, Los Angeles, on Monday, March 14 from 9:00 am to noon....
March 11, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Introduction to Business Planning for Your Library
Registration is now open for "Introduction to Business Planning for Your Library." The workshop will take place at the Charles E. Young Research Library at the University of California, Los Angeles, on Friday, March 11 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Sarah...
Mar.10.2016 | ITHAKA | News
Digital Pioneer Perry Hewitt Joins Leadership Team at ITHAKA
March 10, 2016 – New York, NY – ITHAKA, the not-for-profit leader in using digital technologies to preserve and expand access to knowledge, announced today that Perry Hewitt will join the organization as Vice President of Marketing.
At ITHAKA, Hewitt...
March 10, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Research Practices and the Disruption of the Research Library
Nancy Fried Foster and Cornell University Library's Korneila Tancheva will discuss "Research Practices and the Disruption of the Research Library" at the RLUK Conference on Thursday, March 10.
The academic research library has always played a crucial...
March 09, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
If Chat Is the Next Interface, Can Libraries Reestablish Their Place in the Research Workflow?
Silicon Valley observers are starting to wonder if an interface change is underway. Mobile apps displaced the dominance of the web over the last several years, threatening substantial disruption for advertising behemoths like Google and leaving...
March 08, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Imagining the Future of the Library by Studying Today’s Researchers
Is the library of the future something that will come into view once we crest the next hill? Or will the library of the future be what we make it, based on the best evidence we can collect on current, emerging, and anticipated practices of researchers...
March 07, 2016 | PORTICO | News
International Journal of Physiotherapy to Preserve e-journals with Portico
International Journal of Physiotherapy (IJPHY) will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
IJPHY is an open access, peer-reviewed, bi-monthly journal that publishes genuine and original research...
March 07, 2016 | PORTICO | News
Maxwell Scientific Publication Corp. to Preserve e-journals with Portico
Maxwell Scientific Publication Corp. (MSP) will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
MSP operates as an independent science and technology publisher with a global reputation for quality...
March 07, 2016 | PORTICO | News
American Society of Civil Engineers to Preserve Full Library with Portico
The American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE) has been a Portico participant for e-journal preservation since 2007. ASCE will now preserve their full library, including ebooks, with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into...
March 07, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Helping Students Save Money With Open Educational Resources
Reducing the cost of a college education is a frequent topic in higher education circles, but often the focus is on capping the cost of tuition, or, occasionally, reducing the cost of tuition for students and their families. Some colleges and...
March 07 - 10, 2016 | ITHAKA | Event
ITHAKA for Code4Lib
ITHAKA is a sponsor at an annual gathering of technologists from around the world, who largely work for and with libraries, archives, and museums and have a commitment to open technologies.
Code4Lib is a vibrant and diverse community.
They are...
March 03, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Analyzing Library Acquisitions
The landscape of academic library acquisitions has changed tremendously in recent years. Many libraries have faced significant pressure regarding their ability to purchase monographs for the humanities and social sciences. There has been substantial...
March 01, 2016 | PORTICO | News
International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research to Preserve e-journals with Portico
International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research (IJSER) will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
IJSER is an open access source for a large number of high quality and peer...
February 29, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Overcoming Institutional Barriers to Innovation
Last week, Ithaka S+R released a report on the findings of its first Higher Ed Insights survey. The survey collected the opinions of 96 higher education experts on the state of undergraduate education, and ways to make it more effective and affordable....
February 25, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
On Seams, Seamlessness, and Methodology
Earlier this month, I encountered a thought-provoking talk by Tim Sherratt making the very strong argument that seamlessness should not be our only goal in designing digital library systems. The talk is a year old but it is well worth reading today. I...
February 23, 2016 | ITHAKA | Event
11th International Digital Curation Conference
The RMap Project: Capturing and Preserving the Relationships amongst Multi-Part Distributed Works
Karen Hanson will be giving a demonstration at the 11th International Digital Curation Conference.
The goal of the RMap...
February 23, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Is Completion the Right Goal? The Public Wouldn’t Agree
The results of Ithaka S+R’s first Higher Ed Insights survey, released yesterday, provide a rich set of information about the views of a group of people deeply immersed in the sector. In full disclosure, I was one of the survey’s respondents, and the...
February 22, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Deanna Marcum to Deliver Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture at NFAIS Conference
Deanna Marcum will be the recipient of the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) 2016 Miles Conrad Award. She will receive the award and deliver the Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture on Monday, February 22, at 4:00 pm at the NFAIS 58th...
February 22, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
New Survey of Higher Ed Experts Finds Promise in Guided Pathways, Adaptive Learning
In fall 2015, Ithaka S+R invited a select group of higher education administrators and experts to join a panel of advisors. One activity of the panel, which consists of 110 members with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, is to take part in semi-annual...
February 18, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Liaison Librarianship: Assessment and Ambivalence
Roger Schonfeld will be presenting on a webinar hosted by The Partnership, Canada's national network of provincial and territorial library associations, on February 18 at 1:00 pm. Registration is open at The Partnership's Education Institute.
Liaison...
February 18, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Homework for Hiring
Last year, Deanna Marcum’s issue brief on talent management in academic libraries reflected in part on some of the challenges that academic libraries face in their processes for selection of library staff. Shortly thereafter, Meredith Farkas argued...
February 17, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
An Analysis of Pell Grant Data
Earlier this year, the National Center for Education Statistics’ Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) updated its Data Center to include financial aid data for the 2013-14 academic year. Interested in how the percentage of undergraduate...
February 11, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Workshop for the Research Support Services Project on Religious Sudies
On February 11-12, Ithaka S+R will hold a workshop at Columbia University in New York City for the participants in our Research Support Services project on Religious Studies.
Through the Research Support Service series, Ithaka S+R collaborates with...
February 09, 2016 | JSTOR | Event
ConveyUX
Michael Beasley will be speaking on "Web Analytics for User Experience" at...
February 08, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
The Retraction Landscape: Notes from the NISO Webinar
On January 13th the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) held a webinar exploring the landscape of retractions in scholarly communications. The webinar featured three experts on the subject: Ivan Oransky from Retraction Watch, Veronique...
February 08, 2016 | PORTICO | News
University of Zadar to Preserve e-journals with Portico
University of Zadar will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
University of Zadar is a university located in Zadar, Croatia, and is one of the oldest institutions in Europe. For more...
February 08, 2016 | PORTICO | News
Pure Earth to Preserve e-journals with Portico
Pure Earth will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
Pure Earth is an international non-profit organization dedicated to solving pollution problems in low- and middle-income countries, where...
February 05, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Looking at the Cost of Publishing Monographs
When Peter Berkerey was named executive director of the American Association of University Presses (AAUP), he undertook a listening tour of the membership. From this experience, he commented that he was struck most by the diversity of the membership and...
February 04, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Creating Opportunity in the Tech Industry Pipeline
The lack of diversity in the tech industry has been well documented by the media. Some of the roots of this problem lie in the companies themselves: there’s broad consensus (see here, here, and here) that tech company culture, and perhaps unconscious...
February 04, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Starting from Scratch: Lessons from Guttman Community College
A growing number of America’s community colleges are redesigning their curricula, advising services, faculty development programs, and relationships with four-year institutions in order to help more students succeed. In most cases, reforms take place...
February 02, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
To Measure or Not to Measure: Which Student Outcomes Should Make the Cut?
Few would question whether colleges and universities should have administrative systems in place for measuring learning and course outcomes for all students, in ways that can be quantified and used to help institutions meet their goals. But not all...
February 01, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Leadership for Academic Libraries
Developing leaders for academic libraries is an urgent need, especially at a moment when roles and responsibilities of these organizations are in such flux. One of the longest-running and successful programs, the UCLA Senior Fellows program, seemed to be...
Jan.28.2016 | ITHAKA | News
Artstor and ITHAKA Join Forces
Alliance will enhance access to multimedia digital resources to support education and research
January 28, 2016 — New York, NY — James Shulman, President of Artstor, and Kevin Guthrie, President of ITHAKA, today announced a new strategic alliance...
January 28, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Looking at Diversity Across Cultural Institutions in New York City
Diversity and inclusion are of substantial importance across our society. In recent years, Ithaka S+R has had the opportunity to conduct research projects on these issues in our cultural communities. Last year, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation...
January 27, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Survey Administration Best Practices: Using Incentives Effectively
Since 2000, Ithaka S+R has run the US Faculty Survey, which tracks the evolution of faculty members’ research and teaching practices against the backdrop of increasing digital resources and other systemic changes in higher education. Starting in 2012,...
January 26, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
(Re)introducing the Educational Transformation Team
The new year brings a new member—our fifth—to Ithaka S+R’s Educational Transformation team. It seems like a good opportunity to (re)introduce our program’s staff, which includes three new members since July 2015. In addition to me, the director of the...
January 26, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Redesigning Organizations and Spaces
In the summer of 2014, Yale University integrated eight separate units into a unified Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) that advises teachers, tutors students, leverages technology for teaching and learning, and fosters global teaching and learning...
January 22, 2016 | JSTOR | News
Data Release 2015 Titles
January 9, 2015 Release Content TITLE CHANGES
Entomologica Americana (Biological...
January 22, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Evidence-Based Planning & Decision-Making in Academic Libraries
On January 22-23, Nancy Fried Foster and Roger Schonfeld are conducting a workshop hosted by John Cabot University in Rome for members of the AMICAL Consortium. The workshop is limited to 14 participants.
Like other academic libraries, AMICAL libraries...
Jan.22.2016 | ITHAKA | News
The Door Says “Open” at ITHAKA
New JSTOR technology platform and agile methods position ITHAKA as technical frontrunner in Ann Arbor
January 22, 2016 – Ann Arbor, MI – For developers, designers, product gurus, and QA pros, Ann Arbor is a growing mecca of opportunity. While start-...
January 22, 2016 | JSTOR | News
Data Release: 2015 and 2016 Titles
January 9, 2015 Release Content TITLE CHANGES
Entomologica Americana (Biological...
January 21, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Love and Measurement: Online Learning in Small, Independent Colleges
Dr. Robert Wachter, professor and interim chairman of the department of medicine, University of California, San Francisco, wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times on January 17 in which he argues that measurement in both the health care and...
January 20, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Join Us at UCLA for Two New Workshops on Supporting Digital Resources and Library Services
Libraries create remarkable digital resources and launch innovative new services to better meet the changing needs of the communities they serve. For ten years, Ithaka S+R has worked with librarians, as well as leaders in the academic and cultural...
January 19, 2016 | JSTOR | News
Inside Higher Ed Examines Growth in JSTOR's eBook Program
The Books at JSTOR program is growing quickly, and now offers 40,000 titles from 100...
January 19, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Religious Studies Project Launch and Training Workshop
My colleague Roger Schonfeld and I launched the religious studies project at Pitts Theology Library at Emory University on January 7 and 8 with the first of two methods training workshops for our institutional collaborators. With funding from lead...
January 14, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Library Assessment: Notes from ALA Midwinter 2016
At ALA Midwinter in Boston, we attended several valuable sessions on assessment, evaluation, and data visualization. Here’s a roundup of what we heard. ARL Library Assessment Forum Kenning Arlitsch, dean of the library at Montana State University,...
January 12, 2016 | PORTICO | News
ACI Information Group to Preserve Scholarly Blog Collection with Portico
ACI Information Group, LLC (ACI) will preserve the ACI Scholarly Blog Index with Portico, ensuring that the first digital collection of scholarly blogs will be secure and available for library subscribers into the future.
ACI Information Group is the...
January 11, 2016 | PORTICO | News
The International Journal of Food Studies to preserve e-journals with Portico
The International Journal of Food Studies (IJFS) will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
IJFS is an international peer-reviewed open-access journal featuring scientific articles on the world...
January 11, 2016 | PORTICO | News
Enviro Research Publishers to preserve e-journals with Portico
Enviro Research Publishers will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
Enviro Research Publishers is a leading publishing house from India that provides the research community with a publishing...
January 10, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Participant Meeting at ALA Midwinter
Please join Deanna Marcum, Roger Schonfeld, Christine Wolff, and Kimberly Lutz at Ithaka S+R’s participant meeting at ALA Midwinter on Sunday, January 10 from 1:30-3:00 pm, in the Seaport C Room at the Seaport Hotel.
At the meeting, we will share several...
January 10, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Marketing Your Digital Resources and Sites
Join Kimberly Lutz and Roger Schonfeld for a workshop on "Marketing Your Digital Resources and Sites" at ALA Midwinter on Sunday, January 10, from 9:00 am-noon.
You successfully created a comprehensive digital resource, launched a phenomenal e-journal,...
January 07, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Research Support Services Workshop
On January 7-8, Ithaka S+R will hold a workshop at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, for the participants in our Research Support Services project on Religious Studies. A second workshop is scheduled for February 11-12 at Columbia University in New...
January 06, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Mismatch Theory and the Missing Role of the Institution
At this point, any frequent consumer of higher education news is well aware of the controversial remarks Justice Antonin Scalia made during oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. Many are also likely familiar with the subsequent...
January 04, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Moving Innovation Off Campus
When Paul LeBlanc arrived at Southern New Hampshire University in 2003, he realized that the small, private, tuition-dependent college on the banks of the Merrimack River was destined to decline right along with the downward projections for high school...