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Trip Report: NISO Plus Forum 2022
Earlier this week, NISO held its one-day NISO Plus Forum for 2022. This was an in-person meeting that is intended to feed into the online conference in February 2023. Around 100 people from NISO's membership groups—libraries, content providers, and service providers—attended to talk about metadata. The meeting was …
Posted onand last updated October 05, 2022· 5 minutes reading time -
With Gratitude for the NISO Ann Marie Cunningham Service Award
During the inaugural NISO Plus meeting at the end of February, I was surprised and proud to receive the Ann Marie Cunningham Service award. Todd Carpenter, NISO’s executive director, let me know by tweet as I was not able to attend the conference.
Pictured in that tweet is my …Posted on· 3 minutes reading time -
What is known about GetFTR at the end of 2019
In early December 2019, a group of publishers announced Get-Full-Text-Research, or GetFTR for short. There was a heck of a response on social media, and the response was—on the whole—not positive from my librarian-dominated corner of Twitter. For my early take on GetFTR, see my December 3rd blog …
Posted onand last updated April 03, 2021· 14 minutes reading time -
Publishers going-it-alone (for now?) with GetFTR
In early December 2019, a group of publishers announced Get-Full-Text-Research, or GetFTR for short. I read about this first in Roger Schonfeld's "Publishers Announce a Major New Service to Plug Leakage" piece in The Scholarly Kitchen via Jeff Pooley's Twitter thread and blog post. Details about how this works are …
Posted onand last updated April 03, 2021· 5 minutes reading time