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LIBRARY COMMUNITY GIVES BACK: 2023 WEBINAR SPEAKERS’ CHARITY PICKS

Since the beginning of 2023, Gold Leaf has organised a series of librarian webinars on behalf of De Gruyter. Thee success of the webinars depends hugely on the generosity of the speakers. If the 11 distinguished external speakers who presented in the 2023 series had not given freely of their time and expertise, the webinarsContinueContinue reading “LIBRARY COMMUNITY GIVES BACK: 2023 WEBINAR SPEAKERS’ CHARITY PICKS”

DOAJ metadata survey now live

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DOAJconsultation DOAJ has commissioned Gold Leaf to consult with the community to ensure that the data collected by the service is relevant, necessary, and useful. All global stakeholders and users of DOAJ, regardless of location, are encouraged to participate in the survey, which can be found here. The survey is also available in French, Spanish or Portuguese. TheContinueContinue reading “DOAJ metadata survey now live”

DOAJ commissions a new metadata survey

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) has appointed Gold Leaf, a small consultancy based jointly in the UK and the USA, to conduct a thorough survey of the journal-level metadata it collects. Currently, DOAJ indexes more than 20,300 journals. Every entry is checked manually. The new survey will seek feedback from all stakeholders worldwide –ContinueContinue reading “DOAJ commissions a new metadata survey”

Assessing the Impact: Transformative Agreements in Scholarly Publishing

21 March 2024, 16.00-17.30 CET(3pm-4.30pm BST) Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter The first Transformative Agreements [TA] were developed more than five years ago. Hundreds have since been signed throughout the world (though predominantly in the West). At its most basic, the TA asks libraries to pay for both the ‘read’ andContinueContinue reading “Assessing the Impact: Transformative Agreements in Scholarly Publishing”

A profile of Henian E; distinguished Chinese librarian

We hope you have enjoyed the series of six blog posts we wrote on behalf of De Gruyter, which gave the blog a great start to 2024. We should like to follow up with occasional interviews with more librarians from around the world. In this first piece Mr Henian E, a distinguished Chinese librarian whoContinueContinue reading “A profile of Henian E; distinguished Chinese librarian”