Gavia Libraria

A set of European research funders calling itself “Coalition S” has banded together to forbid pure toll-access and hybrid publication for its grantees. The thinkpiece engine is revving up, so…

The Loon saw a hapless researcher on Twitter today, wondering what to do about a journal that asked them to insert sixty (60!) citations to itself into their manuscript as…

Projekt DEAL has announced that it is done trying to squeeze an acceptable deal out of Elsevier, at least for now. Elsevier claims not to be done with Projekt DEAL…

The Loon has seen a number of librarians reacting to the news coming out of the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, California, etc. by psyching themselves out of thinking they could accomplish…

“He is always wanting to be crowned before the race.” —Mary Renault An institutional repository the Loon was once hired to run was the brainchild of the employing library’s librarian-in-chief.…