In recent years, increasing monopolization tendencies in the market for electronic information resources in the academic sector have led to the formation of consortia by university libraries and other academic institutions, which are intended to act as an antipole to increase their bargaining power against the monopolistic structures of the publisher market. The aim of this research paper is th...

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted higher education, including academic libraries. This paper compares the use of library resources (including interlibrary loan, website and discovery tool pageviews, database use, patron interactions, etc.) at three university libraries before after pandemic. latter part 2019 2020 spring semesters are time frames focus, although two control from earlier...

purpose: clinical librarianship is a tool for evidence based medicine that intends to improve health professionals' access to information. this research, studies the feasibility of implement of clinical librarianship program in the hospital libraries of tabriz university of medical science. methodology: this paper is a descriptive research. hospital libraries of tabriz medical university a...

abstract purpose: measures the rate of physical accessibility to printed book collection at a major iranian university library system. methodology: a list of 2972 titles cited in 97 theses completed in the last two years was checked against the online catalog of the university of isfahan (iran) to determine their availability, then search was carried out to find out how far titles with records ...

Academic libraries have offered ebooks for some time, however little is known about how readers interact with them while making relevance decisions. In this paper we seek to address that gap by analyzing ebook transaction logs for books in a university library.

Duane E. Webster is Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries, an organization of 119 major research libraries whose mission is to identify and influences forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. ARL programmes and services are intended to strengthen the capacities of its member libraries to provide equitable access to record...

As concerns about student mental health have increased, policy aims moved towards a ‘whole-university’ approach. The 2017 Universities UK #Stepchange framework made this principle formal part of initiatives and legitimises it via its calls for action. distributes responsibility support across the institution, highlighting four key reasons intervention: risk, regulation, success policy. However,...