In a remarkable development, France's Couperin consortium negotiated a multi-year deal where the cost goes steadily down each year, reversing the long trend of annual price increases for Big Deals.
Today we are launching 'No Big Deal?', a new feature of UVA Library News that will track the latest events and scholarship about the biggest vendors serving research libraries like ours.
The following open letter has been prepared and released by the Deans and Directors of the seven research libraries at public doctoral institutions in Virginia. It is part of an ongoing conversation with our campus communities about responsible stewardship of our investments in research.
As the Albert & Shirley Small Special Collection’s Curator of Material Culture, Meg oversees curation, description, and access to the University’s Fine and Decorative Arts Collection and several significant archaeological and records collections including the Flowerdew Hundred Collection and recently excavated and legacy collections of archaeological artifacts associated with the history of the University of Virginia.
A 19th-century printer, journalist and essayist, Walt Whitman became America’s renowned poet many years after he shocked and unsettled American culture with the first publication of “Leaves of Grass” in 1855.
In February, the University of California system (the UC) made a remarkable announcement: they are not renewing their “Big Deal” subscription with Elsev
In the first of many steps to promote openness about our spending, we are releasing the following information, outlining the costs and usage of several large journal packages, which together represent nearly 40% of our collections budget. We expect to release more detailed information, including title-level data, on a regular basis.
Public Access and Research Infrastructure Librarian
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Walt Whitman, the exhibition pays tribute to the incalculable cultural influence of the great American poet through display of first printings of his immortal work, Leaves of Grass, early drafts of his poems in manuscript, personal correspondence, and photographs.