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June 26, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Academic Libraries: An ALA Open Session
Join Ithaka S+R on Sunday, June 26, from 3-4:00 pm, at ALA in Orlando and contribute your ideas to our latest research project. We have recently embarked on a study, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to map staff diversity within academic...
June 26, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
What Did We Learn From the Latest Round of the US and UK Faculty Surveys?
Join us at ALA in Orlando on Sunday, June 26, from 10-11:00 am to learn about Ithaka S+R's US and UK Faculty Surveys. Ithaka S+R’s Faculty Survey has tracked attitudes and behaviors of faculty members in US higher education institutions in response to...
June 18, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Danielle Cooper at ATLA’s Annual Conference
Danielle Cooper will speak on "Investigating the Needs of Scholars: A Multi-Institutional Collaborative Approach," at the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Annual Conference on June 17, in Long Beach, California.
Ithaka S+R, in partnership...
June 11, 2016 | JSTOR | Event
Taxonomy Café
Jabin White of JSTOR will be speaking at the Taxonomy Cafe this June.
June 04, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Danielle Cooper at the Association of Canadian Archivists Conference
Danielle Cooper will present on the "User Access: Research & Innovation" panel at the Annual Conference of the Association of Canadian Archivists on June 3 in Montreal. Cooper will share information about the Research Support Services project on...
June 02, 2016 | JSTOR | Event
Society for Scholarly Publishing
Concurrent 2B: Previews Session: New and Noteworthy Product Presentations
...May 25, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Farmers and Musicians
A few years ago, I had an interesting conversation with a farmer about a study I was then conducting on academic research practices. "That’s interesting about academics," she said, "but what about how farmers do research?" This was a very special farmer...
May 24, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Higher Creducation
It is that time of year when higher education recognizes accomplishment through the awarding of degrees and commencement celebrations. That has me thinking about what it means to be educated and/or to earn a credential. Earlier this year, Ithaka S+R...
May 20, 2016 | PORTICO | News
The Winnower to Preserve e-journals with Portico
The Winnower will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
The Winnower is a publishing platform that provides traditional scholarly publishing tools (DOI, typesetting, and archival) to...
May 20, 2016 | PORTICO | News
Joint Implant Surgery & Research Foundation to Preserve e-journals with Portico
Joint Implant Surgery & Research Foundation (JIRSF) will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
David Faroo, Director of Communications, said, “The Joint Implant Surgery & Research...
May 20, 2016 | PORTICO | News
Infomedic International S.A. to Preserve e-journals with Portico
Infomedic International S.A. will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
Infomedic International S.A. was founded in 2006 and started by providing computational solutions and services to the...
May 20, 2016 | PORTICO | News
International Association of Online Engineering to Preserve e-journals with Portico
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
The International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) is an international non-profit...
May 20, 2016 | PORTICO | News
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology to Preserve e-journals with Portico
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) will preserve their e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
The Association for Research and Vision in Ophthalmology (ARVO) is the largest...
May 20, 2016 | PORTICO | News
SciPress to Preserve e-journals with Portico
SciPress will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
SciPress is a scientific publishing house located in Switzerland, near Zurich, with a strong focus on theoretical and applied physical...
May 20, 2016 | PORTICO | News
The Institute for Business and Finance Research to Preserve e-journals with Portico
The Institute for Business and Finance Research (IBFR) will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
IBFR was established to promote the study of business, finance, and related issues. IBFR also...
May 20, 2016 | PORTICO | News
Tobacco Regulatory Science Group to Preserve e-journals with Portico
Tobacco Regulatory Science Group will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
Tobacco Regulatory Science is a rigorously peer-reviewed online scientific journal for the dissemination of research...
May 20, 2016 | PORTICO | News
Paris Scholar Publishing to Preserve e-journals with Portico
Paris Scholar Publishing (Health and Behavior Policy Review) will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
Paris Scholar Publishing (HBPR) is a rigorously peer-reviewed scholarly publication that...
May 20, 2016 | PORTICO | News
PNG Publications to Preserve e-journals with Portico
PNG Publications (The American Journal of Health Behavior) will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
PNG Publications (AJHB) seeks to improve the quality of life through multidisciplinary...
May 18, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
A “How To” Guide to Effective Transfer Pathways
While a large majority of community college students aspire to a bachelor’s degree, only 14 percent will earn one within six years. But that deeply disappointing overall statistic hides a lot of variation: in some contexts, the pathway through two-year...
May 18, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Will Easing the Financial Burden of Dual Enrollment Improve College Outcomes for Low-Income Students?
As I’ve noted previously, the percentage of low-income (family income in the bottom 20 percent) high school graduates that have enrolled in two- and four-year institutions declined from 55.9 percent in 2008 to 45.5 percent in 2013. Studies examining dual...
May 17, 2016 | PORTICO | News
Avestia Publishing to Preserve e-Journals With Portico
Avestia Publishing will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available in the future.
Avestia Publishing is a fast growing academic publication platform. All Avestia publications adopt an open access model, are peer-...
May 17, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
The New Transcript and Predictive Analytics
As interest in alignment between education and industry increases, higher education institutions are looking for new ways to signal their students’ industry-relevant skills and experiences to employers in ways that are meaningful and practical. A...
May 16, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within Academic Libraries
Diversity, equity, and inclusiveness are vital issues for society in the United States and beyond. National policy discussions have catalyzed concerns that our higher education institutions are not providing the leadership on these issues that we would...
May 13, 2016 | PORTICO | News
Exact Editions to Preserve e-journals with Portico
Exact Editions will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
Exact Editions turns books and periodicals into dynamic, user friendly digital editions with extensive archives. We specialise in...
May 13, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
How Should Higher Education be Regulated?
For much of the 20th Century, the government relied on a command-and-control form of regulation in their oversight of organizations across many sectors. In other words, the government mandated that these regulated entities undertake specific activities...
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!
May 05, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Announcing the Public Health Project
Many libraries have special expertise in particular disciplines, and they build services and collections to support researchers in those fields. But as research practices evolve, are libraries addressing the changing needs of their users? Ithaka S+R’s...
May 03, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Younger Faculty Members Embracing Transition to Electronic Format
In the Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2015, which provides a periodic snapshot of faculty members’ practices and perceptions related to scholarly communications and information usage, we found that there did not appear to be a trend towards a format...
May 03, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Taking a Closer Look at Diversity in New York City’s Dance Community
Since the release of “Diversity in the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Community" in January, there have been some continued efforts to further understand the survey findings and make them actionable. In March, the Theater Subdistrict...
April 29, 2016 | PORTICO | News
Global Preservation Effort Portico Tops One Billion Files
April 29, 2016, Princeton, NJ—Libraries around the world are moving rapidly to holding digital collections, but will all those bits and bytes be here in the future? ITHAKA, a not-for-profit leader in developing new solutions to advance and preserve...
April 28, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Increasing Retention Across the Spectrum
For the past twenty years, Florida State University (FSU) has focused relentlessly on retaining and supporting every student it enrolls. Its efforts have yielded one of the largest increases in six-year graduation rates in the nation—nearly 16 percentage...
April 27, 2016 | PORTICO | News
International Peatland Society to Preserve e-journals with Portico
International Peatland Society (IPS) is an organization of corporate and individual members dedicated to the responsible management and Wise Use of peatlands and peat. Via its Commissions and National Committees, IPS regularly organizes conferences,...
April 27, 2016 | PORTICO | News
EU European Publishing to Preserve e-journals with Portico
EU European Publishing is an open access publisher that serves public health. A small publishing firm housed within the Science and Technology Park of Crete (STEP-C), EU’s articles are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon...
April 27, 2016 | PORTICO | News
Weddell Publishing to Preserve e-journals with Portico
Weddell Publishing publishes the independent peer-reviewed Learning for Democracy: An International Journal of Thought and Practice.
For more information, please visit the publisher’s page on the Portico website.
April 26, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Investigating the Needs of Agriculture Scholars
Ithaka S+R, in partnership with the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) and 19 libraries in the US, is examining the research activities of agriculture scholars. During spring semester 2016, the participating libraries assembled...
April 26, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Notes from the CRL Collections Forum
The Center for Research Libraries’ spring forum, @Risk: Stewardship, Due Diligence, and the Future of Print, sought to remind librarians of the stewardship responsibilities we bear for preserving library collections and transferring them safely to the...
April 22, 2016 | PORTICO | News
Barataria. Revista Castellano-Manchega to Preserve e-journals with Portico
Barataria. Revista Castellano-Manchega will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
Barataria. Revista Castellano-Manchega de Ciencias Sociales came out for the first time in January 1998. The...
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
Separating Fact from Fiction in Higher Education
Join Ithaka S+R in Washington DC on Thursday, April 21, 2016, 10:00 – 11:30 am for a panel discussion, "Separating Fact from Fiction in Higher Education." Registration for this free event is now open.
Higher education has emerged as a national issue amid...
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 20, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Responsible Use of Student Data
For several months, my colleagues and I at Ithaka S+R have been working with Mitchell Stevens, a professor at Stanford, on a project addressing the uses, challenges and opportunities for colleges and universities undertaking new forms of research,...
April 17, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Martin Kurzweil at Stanford’s Learning Summit 2016
Martin Kurzweil will speak on "Responsible Use of Student Data for Individual and Organizational Improvement" as part of a panel discussion at Stanford's Learning Summit 2016.
Data describing college students are now more ubiquitous, and potentially more...
April 15, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Deanna Marcum Delivers Keynote Address at the CRL Collections Forum
Deanna Marcum will deliver a keynote address on "Due Diligence and Stewardship in a Time of Change and Uncertainty" at the CRL Collections Forum on Thursday, April 14, at 1:15 pm.
The forum, "@Risk: Stewardship, Due Diligence, and the Future of Print"...
April 13, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Teaching the US Faculty Survey
The new faculty survey report has arrived! As an LIS faculty member teaching in the areas of Academic Libraries and Sources and Services in the Humanities and Social Sciences, I couldn’t be more excited. Over the past several iterations, I have found the...
April 13, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities Facing Higher Education
Rutgers University is marking its 250th anniversary this year with, among other activities, a series of lectures on the future of higher education. Opening the series on April 7, William G. Bowen, president emeritus of Princeton University and president...
April 11, 2016 | JSTOR | Event
UKSG 2016 Annual Conference
JSTOR's Alex Humphreys and Kate Wittenberg of Portico will be speaking during breakout...
April 11, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Using Lessons Learned from University Partnerships to Enhance the US Faculty Survey 2015
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 on a triennial basis...
April 08, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Deanna Marcum & Richard Spies at the Teagle Foundation’s Hybrid Learning Convening
Deanna Marcum and Richard Spies will present on "Online Teaching and Learning Initiatives: Lessons Learned" at the Teagle Foundation's Hybrid Learning & the Residential Liberal Arts Experience Convening on Thursday, April 7, in New York City.
Marcum...
April 07, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Tools for Designing Learning Spaces
The UK Higher Education Learning Space Toolkit, produced through the collaboration of SCHOMS, AUDE and UCISA,[1] provides a robust set of tools for designing learning spaces for the 21st century and a conceptual framework for approaching design...
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 05, 2016 | JSTOR | News
In March, JSTOR Celebrated Women's History Month
Last month, JSTOR celebrated Women's History Month by highlighting the below resources...
April 05, 2016 | PORTICO | News
ILIRIA College to preserve e-articles with Portico
ILIRIA College will preserve e-articles with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future.
ILIRIA College is a private provider of higher education in Kosovo that publishes scholarly articles in the field of Social Sciences...
April 04, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | Event
Presentation on the Key Findings of US Faculty Survey 2015 at CNI Spring Meeting
Ithaka S+R’s Faculty Survey has tracked attitudes and behaviors of faculty members in US higher education institutions in response to technological and environmental change on a triennial basis since 2000. The Faculty Survey has helped the community...
April 04, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Tracking Trends in Faculty Research, Publishing, and Teaching
This morning we published the US Faculty Survey 2015. We have been running this survey on a triennial basis since 2000 to examine the attitudes and behaviors of scholars at four-year colleges and universities across the United States. The survey provides...
April 04, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Trends in College Net Price for Low-Income Students
Last week, New America’s Stephen Burd published a report showing that low-income students who receive Pell grants still face a substantial financial burden to attend college, especially at private not-for-profit institutions. Looking at the average net...
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...
Apr.01.2016 | ITHAKA | News
Piotr Adamczyk to Lead Image and Museum Relationships for ITHAKA
April 1, 2016 – New York, NY – ITHAKA, the not-for-profit leader in advancing and preserving knowledge worldwide, announced that Piotr Adamczyk will join the organization as Director of Image Content and Museum Partnerships.
Adamczyk will lead ITHAKA’...
March 30, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Yes, Higher Education Has Changed More Than We Think
At the recent annual meeting of the American Council on Education, I was asked to moderate a panel on the future of higher education. In preparing for the session, I read a myriad of reports and news articles about how slow higher education is to change...
March 29, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
The Library as Distraction Barricade
We often think of the library as a service, space, and resource provider but could there be value in the library serving as a withholder? The recent report by Cornell University librarians, published by Ithaka S+R, “A Day in the Life of a (Serious)...
March 28, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
What’s Different about Digital Leadership?
Is leadership for a digital organization any different than any other kind of leadership? I think so, and that is the topic I chose to address when the National Federation of Advanced Information Systems (NFAIS) named me the 2016 Miles Conrad Memorial...
March 24, 2016 | ITHAKA S+R | News
Moving Beyond “Fit”: Industry Engagement in Competency-Based Education Design
Competency-based education (CBE) is an approach to higher education that is based on students mastering specific skills that are aligned to certain competencies. These competencies can be aligned to objective measures of student preparedness or aligned...
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...