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The whole sector needs to work together

CILIP

For example, how procurement regulations might support a system in which buyers can expect changes and improvements while also giving suppliers a chance to signal their intentions and carry them out. ? The bibliographic records we use for discovery for students for ebooks are often very far away from the standards we?d sometimes it?s

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Why is most of the 20th Century invisible to AI?

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As chair of a university library committee, she has followed the current ebook pricing controversy and believes it is a symptom of a deeper problem. ?They?re Ebook pricing is symptomatic of many things that are wrong with the way the information environment works around universities and research. re fleecing us. I understand there?s

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Know your rights: the key to eBook access

CILIP

Know your rights: the key to eBook access. t refuse to sell paper books to libraries, but they can and do refuse to sell them eBooks. s work streams will focus on eLending, including eBook prices, licensing and legislation. the law made it clear that only licensed eBook PLR payments could be made. ?It Publishers can?t

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How to Accelerate Government Transformation by Reducing Risk, Complexity, and Cost

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Widely derided as the consummate example of inefficiency, government agencies around the world are transforming their services and ultimately its perception by the public with the adoption of new technology and platforms. Big transformation of big government. Transformation goes on overdrive with COVID-19.