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March 2020 - Vol. 18, No. 1 | ISSN: 1549-3733

Featured articles

• You’re an amazing librarian! Does your profile say so?
• Scopus author profile tips from a research impact librarian           
• Faculty profiles as gateways to library services   
• Raising the visibility of your institution and researchers
• Making metrics come alive with interactive data visualizations
• The role of the IR in achieving Carnegie's R2 classification

Also new

•  Elsevier appoints Gwen Evans, Vice President, Global Library Relations
•  RDMLA free training course for librarians now offers CE credits
•  Elsevier’s free health and medical research on novel coronavirus
•  New report: The researcher journey through a gender lens
•  IR outreach and partnership yield award-winning results
•  Building library services through innovation and international collaboration

December 2019 - Vol. 17, No. 10| ISSN: 1549-3733

• Applying entrepreneurial skills in the library
• Lessons learned in creating a new library space
• Webinar: Tools for collaborative research and early discovery
• A unique look at global library collections

Featured Download

• Charleston Conference Keynote Session

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• RDMLA
• Pure International Conference presentations (BrightTALK)

November 2019 - Vol. 17, No. 9| ISSN: 1549-3733

• Creating a digital learning portal on a shoestring budget
• Using Twitter to connect with faculty
• Striving to become China’s most influential university library
• Leveraging emotional intelligence in the workplace
• Saluting our key library liaison as the outreach continues

Featured Download

• Where should I publish?

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• Three tips on preparing a literature review (Elsevier.com)
• Elsevier announces winners of the Reaxys PhD Prize 2019 (Elsevier.com)

October 2019 - Vol. 17, No. 8 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Look at us now! Year three of an OER program and OA journals
• Free RDM training for librarians
• Webinar: Tools for collaborative research and early discovery
• Promoting open science through the library repository
• Apply for a Research4Life training grant
• Expanding the impact of research

Featured Download

• Quality, Trust and Peer Review report (Elsevier.com)

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• Supporting open acccess (Elsevier.com)
• What you don’t know about Research4Life (Elsevier Connect)
   

September 2019 - Vol. 17, No. 7 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Webinar October 10 | Open science roundup: tools for collaborative research and early discovery
• Managing conflict in the intergenerational library workplace
• Instagram: the new way to connect with students
• Librarians engaging users with STEM

Featured Download

• Tips for making your university’s journal publishing program shine

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• Supporting climate change research (Mendeley)
• Reproducibility in research: taming a “complex beast” (Elsevier Connect) 

July 2019 - Vol. 17, No. 6 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Tips for social media activities in academic libraries
• Reinventing first-year library orientation to feature all departments
• Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA): a global online learning community
• Webinar recording: Staying visible, relevant and connected with your research community

Featured Download

• The importance of high-quality content: curation and reevaluation in Scopus

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• Open access – reflecting on our journey 15 years on (Elsevier Connect)
• Research4Life (Research4Life.org)

June 2019 - Vol. 17, No. 5 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Conversations with academic library directors
• Building good relationships: exploring the “hangout factor” in liaison work
• Call for nominations: Karen Hunter Memorial Award

Featured Download

• Engaging with research performance analytics

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• Webinar: Employing APIs to create powerful data visualizations (Scopus)
• Datasets are an important output in their own right (Elsevier Connect)
• Webinar: How Scopus can help address researchers’ most pressing questions (Scopus)

May 2019 - Vol. 17, No. 4| ISSN: 1549-3733

• Reimagining outreach to students: A tale of two universities
• Supporting students and faculty with an institution-led publishing program
• Webinar: May 23 | A library lens on the Ithaka S+R US 2018 Faculty Survey results
• A library’s strategic look at research support and open science services

Featured Download

• Information Literacy Sources for Librarians

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• How can we work together to open science? (Elsevier Connect)
• New in reference management from Mendeley (Mendeley.com) 

April 2019 - Vol. 17, No. 3| ISSN: 1549-3733

• Using social networks for personal branding
• Makerspaces: Locations to expand creativity in the academic library
• Webinar recording now available | Deep dive into COUNTER COP5
• Library Connect 2018 digest available

Featured Download

• Information literacy lesson plan for librarians

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• Add your institutional branding to your ScienceDirect page
• Five facts about Research Data Management (Mendeley Data)
• What will the world of research look like 10 years from now? (Elsevier Connect)

March 2019 - Vol. 17, No. 2 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• How academic libraries serve graduate students through their websites
• From tradition to innovation: The evolutionary history of a library
• KBART, the next generation: Why automation is top of everyone’s wish list
• Download the Library Connect Digest 2018

Featured Download

• Infographic: Data Management and Visibility

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• Supporting a Connected Galaxy of Knowledge (The Scholarly Kitchen)

February 2019 - Vol. 17, No. 1| ISSN: 1549-3733

• Reimagining outreach to faculty: a tale of two Florida academic libraries
• How the new COUNTER release will pass the baton to librarians
• Top 10 most popular Library Connect articles of 2018
• WEBINAR Feb 21: Are you ready for COUNTER COP5?
• University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries receive inaugural Karen Hunter Memorial Award
• Telling a better research story with a broader suite of metrics

Featured Download

• Raising the global visibility of non-English, non-STEM research: a case study from Colombia

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• Raising the global visibility of local research (Elsevier Connect)
• Postdoc free access program expands to include Scopus (Elsevier)
• The information system supporting research (Elsevier Connect)

December 2018 - Vol. 16, No. 10| ISSN: 1549-3733

• A strategic approach to building research support and open science services
• Centralizing student assistance space on campus – the knowledge market
• Say it loud and say it proud: the superhero approach to being a librarian scholar!
• Three essentials for integrating information literacy into higher education

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• What happens when your institution’s research hits the headlines (Elsevier Connect)
• The Reaxys PhD Prize for your chemistry students (Elseveier.com)

November 2018 - Vol. 16, No. 9| ISSN: 1549-3733

• From pilot to launch: A step-by-step approach to developing an OER program and OA journals
• Tackling current and future use collection assessments through one dashboard
• WEBINAR now available | Open science: From empowering people to employing platforms
• Information literacy resources for librarians and their library users — a 2018 update
• Using key performance indicators to measure library performance

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• To thwart predatory publishing, we need to work together (Elsevier Connect)
• Successful pilot between bepress and SSSR paves way for integration experiments (bepress)
• What’s in a name? SciVal is now offering Diacritic Support

October 2018 - Vol. 16, No. 8| ISSN: 1549-3733

• Information literacy resources for librarians and their library users — a 2018 update
• Tips for planning a successful academic library orientation
• Inside out with Jean Shipman: Elsevier’s ambassador to the library community reflects on her first year
• Download the 2017 Library Connect Digest
• WEBINAR Oct. 11 | Open science: from empowering people to employing platforms

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• ScienceDirect Topics (Elsevier.com)
• Elsevier/Impactstory agreement will make open access articles easier to find on Scopus (Elsevier.com)
• Webinar: Librarians’ role in evidence-based medicine education for healthcare policymaker

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September 2018 - Vol. 16, No. 7| ISSN: 1549-3733

• Training and development for librarians: Why bother?
• The impact of library instruction on student success
• WEBINAR Oct. 11 | Open science: from empowering people to employing platforms
• Setting up data visualization services in your library
• What are current trends, challenges and opportunities for LIS education?

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• Get ready for the Engineering Academic Challenge (Elsevier)
• Open science: 4 ways Elsevier is contributing to a more inclusive world of research (Elsevier Connect)
• Think. Check. Submit.

July 2018 - Vol. 16, No. 6| ISSN: 1549-3733

• Showcasing our institution's research: A look at UTA Libraries’ new consultation service
• The digital humanities lab: A dedicated space to support faculty’s creative endeavors
• Webinar: Library value through the lens of student success, research outcomes & collection impact
• Quick wins for library workshop planning
• Panoramas and perspectives: Karen Hunter on the *good* old days of librarianship

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• Don’t speculate – validate. CiteScore™ values are here (Scopus blog)
• Open Educational Resources (bepress webinars)
• The 5 most common mistakes to avoid when you are publishing a systematic review (Elsevier Connect)

June 2018 - Vol. 16, No. 5 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• The power and the challenges of collaboration for academic libraries
• How to get stakeholder buy-in for implementing emerging technologies in your academic library
• The digital media lab: A library creative space for supporting multimodal assignments
• WEBINAR July 12: Library value through the lens of student success, research outcomes and collection impact

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• Download available: Conducting a successful literature search (Elsevier)
• See how CiteScore metrics are progressing with CiteScore Tracker (Scopus Blog)

May 2018 - Vol. 16, No. 4 | ISSN: 1549-3733     

• ORCID integration at the UNLV Libraries
• RA21 explained: A project that aims to revolutionize access to library content
• The next generation of library managers
• Exploring the need for a research data management librarian academy
• Research information management: An emerging library role

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• Ten years of Mendeley – and what’s next (Elsevier Connect)
• Looking good - introducing your new, improved ScienceDirect landing site (Elsevier Connect)
• Answering your research data management needs: Mendeley Data Launch (Mendeley Webinar)

April 2018 - Vol. 16, No. 3 | ISSN: 1549-3733                                                                                                              

• Informed learning in higher education
• The case for creativity and creative spaces in libraries
• Using key performance indicators to measure library performance
• WEBINAR May 10: Improving research data management interactions

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• An improved way to check your Scopus author profile
• New pan-African open access journal - Scientific African
• SSRN and bepress: testing our impact

March 2018 - Vol. 16, No. 2 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Trends, challenges and opportunities for LIS education: an interview with Carol Tenopir
• Communicating with administrators and executives: 5 tips from the top
• WEBINAR May 10 | Improving research data management interactions
• WEBINAR now available: Showcase your institution's research (and library capabilities!)

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• CHORUS: making it easier for you to comply with open access policies (Elsevier Connect)
• Webinar now available | The emerging role of libraries in research information management (Elsevier Research Intelligence)
• Webinar now available | Promoting open access scholarship - SSRN & bepress Digital Commons (SSRN webinar)
• Altmetrics reveal insights into the impact of scientific knowledge (Elsevier Connect)

February 2018 - Vol. 16, No. 1 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• How rich data and a versatile research information system fuel world-class library research services
• WEBINAR March 15: Showcase your institution's research (and library capabilities!)
• SURVEY: A Scopus online learning program for librarians
• The Hunter Forum at ALA Midwinter Meeting 2018

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond 

• NEW Researcher Academy
• Mendeley Data: introducing folders (Mendeley blog)
• Discover the data behind the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (Elsevier Connect)
• Understanding Data Retrieval Practices: A Social Informatics Perspective (arXiv)

December 2017 - Vol. 15, No. 10 | ISSN: 1549-3733 

• #1 RESOURCE: Literature Search: a librarian's handout to introduce tools, terms and techniques
  • Download Literature Search handout
  • Download Literature Search poster
• Runner-up RESOURCE: Scholarly communication issues around scholarly collaboration
  • Download Article Sharing handout
• #1 WEBINAR: Researcher profiles and metrics that matter
• Runner-up WEBINAR: 12 time-saving tips for research support
• #1 ARTICLE: Building a successful liaison program from the ground up
• Runner-up ARTICLE: Information literacy resources for librarians and their library users

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond 

• How Pure is helping us build world-class library research services at Manchester (Pure webinar)
• Using the ScienceDirect API to increase visibility and access to research articles (Elsevier Connect)
• The writing's on the wall: Mendeley Stats is moving to your profile (Elsevier Connect)

Open Access Special Issue 2017 - Vol. 15, No. 9 | ISSN: 1549-3733 

• Survey findings: Librarians, researchers and open access publishing
• Mapping the route to open data sharing
• More is simply more: thoughts on open access
• Scholarly communication issues around scholarly collaboration networks
• Taking the pain out of open access compliance is a win for the library 
• 7 tips for finding open access content on ScienceDirect and Scopus
• 100 stories that show why open access matters
• 5 surprising facts about Elsevier and open access

October 2017 - Vol. 15, No. 8 | ISSN: 1549-3733 

• Six examples of creative promotion of ORCID by libraries
• Embedding ORCID in researcher workflows and institutional system
• Medtronic Knowledge Center redesign a sign of collaborative spirit and company support
• Tracking student success in literature search as they avoid detrimental detours
• WEBINAR Oct. 19 | Librarians and APIs 101: overview and use cases 
• Webinar Nov. 16 | Elevate the status of your library with data visualizations and multimedia messaging 

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond 

• A coalition of publishers takes action (Coalition for Responsible Sharing website)
• Five Dutch universities turn to Elsevier to aid data collaboration (Elsevier Connect)
• Bepress and Elsevier – an update (Elsevier Connect)
• Why clinical citations deserve their own metric (Altmetrics Conference website)

September 2017 - Vol. 15, No. 7 | ISSN: 1549-3733 

• "A good one": Meet Elsevier's new VP of global library relations
• Partnering to support grant-funded research: learn the jargon and look for needs
• Information literacy resources for librarians and their library users
• WEBINAR Sept. 29 | Literature search on a connected path
• WEBINAR Oct. 19 | Librarians and APIs 101: overview and use cases 
• Building a successful liaison program from the ground up 

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond 

• An updated, easier- to-use interface for Engineering Village (Engineering Village blog)
• Top tips: making your article visible with SEO (Authors' Update)
• PlumX Metrics now on Scopus: Discover how others interact with your research (Scopus blog)
• Information in Action: Celebrating Research Advocacy Champions (Research4Life)

June 2017 - Vol. 15, No. 6 | ISSN: 1549-3733 — Research Metrics Special Edition

• Keeping score of CiteScore
• CiteScore metrics^TM resources for LibGuides
• Eureka points on the Research Assessment Metrics Timeline
• WEBINAR now available | Researcher profiles and metrics that matter
• Librarian Quick Reference Cards for Research Impact Metrics
• Talking to your researchers about the h-index

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• Bibliometrics and the academic librarian (A Librarian Abroad blog)
• How to explore, compare and track journal citation impact with CiteScore metrics (Scopus blog)
• Insight into how articles are being read, shared and cited (Elsevier)
• Texas A&M’s quest for excellence means tracking the impact of its scholarly output in untraditional ways (Elsevier Connect)

June 2017 - Vol. 15, No. 5 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Building a successful liaison program from the ground up
• Eureka points on the Research Assessment Metrics Timeline 
• WEBINAR June 8 | Researcher profiles and metrics that matter
• WEBINAR now available | High-impact library services and outreach: from student success to systematic reviews

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• CiteScore 2016 values now available!
• Texas A&M’s quest for excellence means tracking the impact of its scholarly output in untraditional ways (Elsevier Connect)
• Research and funding opportunities: finding the right match (Mendeley Webinar Series)
• Download "Creating and Managing a Digital Library" (SciTech Connect)
• Research challenges and Mendeley usage at NASA (Mendeley Webinar Series)

May 2017 - Vol. 15, No. 4 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• WEBINAR now available | High-impact library services and outreach: from student success to systematic reviews
• WEBINAR June 8 | Researcher profiles and metrics that matter
• To Librarians from a PhD Researcher
• Literature search — download a helpful handout for library users in their most desperate hour

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• WEBINAR: Creating and Managing a Digital Library (Books on ScienceDirect Webinar Series)
• WEBINAR: Research data management: What librarians need to know (Mendeley Webinar Series)
• Chapter Download: Using theory and practice to build an instructional tool kit

April 2017 - Vol. 15, No. 3 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• WEBINAR May 18 | Guiding library users in literature search, evaluation and sharing
• Providing literature support as part of the biomedical research team
• WEBINAR now available | 12 time-saving tips for research support
• Knowledge discovery through text analytics: advances, challenges and opportunities

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• Gender in the Global Research Landscape report | Mendeley library of references
• Maintaining the integrity of the scholarly record: It takes a village! (Mendeley Webinar Series) 
• New on Scopus: dataset links, funding acknowledgement search and CiteScore exports (Scopus blog)

March 2017 - Vol. 15, No. 2 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Providing literature support as part of the biomedical research team
• WEBINAR March 16 | 12 time-saving tips for research support
• Knowledge discovery through text analytics: advances, challenges and opportunities
• Download the Library Connect Yearbook 2016
• Do you want to be an LIS journal editor? An editor discusses perks and pitfalls

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• WEBINAR | Using Mendeley for systematic reviews
• How to explore, compare and track journal citation impact with CiteScore metrics (Scopus blog)
• WEBINAR | Views on information literacy in librarianship

February 2017 - Vol. 15, No. 1 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Download the Library Connect Yearbook 2016
• Do you want to be an LIS journal editor? An editor discusses perks and pitfalls
• Join Mendeley Certification Program for Librarians Feb. 14 kickoff
• CiteScore metrics for librarians interested in research performance
• NEW version available: Quick reference cards for research impact metrics
• WEBINAR now available: Research data literacy and the library — View the webinar | Download the slides

Other Stories From Elsevier & Beyond

• WEBINAR | Using Mendeley for systematic reviews
• How to explore, compare and track journal citation impact with CiteScore metrics (Scopus blog)
• WEBINAR | Views on information literacy in librarianship

December 2016 - Vol. 14, No. 10 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• CiteScore metrics for librarians interested in research performance
• NEW version available: Quick reference cards for research impact metrics
• Introducing your researchers to text mining: 5 first steps
• WEBINAR now available: Research data literacy and the library — View the webinar | Download the slides
• WEBINAR now available | Targeting the librarian’s role in research services — View the webinar | Download the slides
• Current Trends in Information Literacy | 5-chapter download!
• Roadmap for a successful curriculum mapping project
• Epic wins: engaging students with game-based learning — Read more | Download whitepaper

• The FAIR side of Mendeley Data (Mendeley blog)
• Making data citation a reality (Elsevier Connect)
• Update your browser for better — and more secure — searching on ScienceDirect (ScienceDirect blog)

November 2016 - Vol. 14, No. 9 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Current Trends in Information Literacy | 5-chapter download!
• Roadmap for a successful curriculum mapping project
• Epic wins: engaging students with game-based learning — Read more | Download whitepaper
• WEBINAR now available: Trends in teaching information literacy — View the webinar | Download the slides
• WEBINAR Nov. 8 | Targeting the librarian’s role in research services

• CASE STUDY | Making a case for evidence-based eBook purchasing
• Joint statement on universal access to information
• Is a title indexed in Scopus? A reminder to check before you publish (Scopus blog)
• Introducing Mendeley Careers

October 2016 - Vol. 14, No. 8 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• A risky proposition: When Elsevier began its academic publishing with banned books
• A five-point plan to become an acknowledged copyright authority
• 2016 MLA HINARI/Research4Life grant recipients awarded
• Oct. 13 WEBINAR: Trends in teaching information literacy
• Quick reference cards for research impact metrics

• Engineering Academic Challenge starts Oct. 10 | Download the librarian's toolkit
• Standing on the shoulders of giants: sharing research responsibly (ScienceDirect blog)
• Citation metrics and open access: what do we know? (Elsevier Connect)

September 2016 - Vol. 14, No. 7 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Customize a metrics poster for outreach to your researchers
• What emerging healthcare trends will affect medical librarians over the next 10 years?
• Librarians as change agents in navigating the new publishing and open science terrain
• WEBINAR now available | Capturing and communicating the value of information management services in a corporate culture

• New DataSearch engine available in beta
• Maximizing the visibility and impact of articles by university authors
• Still unleashing the power of sharing (Elsevier Connect)
• Journal metrics in Scopus: SCImago Journal Rank (Scopus blog)

July 2016 - Vol. 14, No. 6 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Librarian Quick Reference Cards for Research Impact Metrics
• Librarians as change agents in navigating the new publishing and open science terrain
• WEBINAR now available | Capturing and communicating the value of information management services in a corporate culture
• Rebuilding a Malawian library after disaster
• Talking to your researchers about the h-index

• CASE STUDY | The role of research metrics at a top-ranked global university: The University of Queensland
• Finding better ways to connect research data with scientific literature (Elsevier Connect)
• There’s a library for that: 5 NYC libraries with unique specialties (Elsevier Connect)
• Putting data in the hands of researchers with Hivebench (Mendeley blog)

June 2016 - Vol. 14, No. 5 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Talking to your researchers about the h-index
• Your metrics questions answered: Q&A from research impact metrics for librarians webinar
• Register for Scopus webinars in English or German — even power users learn a lot!
• Benchmarking with SciVal in Scholarly Communication and Research Services (PDF now available for download)
• Capturing and communicating the value of information management services in a corporate culture (article and webinar)
• Grants now open to train LIS professionals and users in developing countries on how to use Research4Life (June 13 deadline) 

• Publisher/University collaboration expands access to research articles
• Time management tips for librarians
• Librarians: the new research data management experts
• Mendeley welcomes the SSRN community!

May 2016 - Vol. 14, No. 4 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Benchmarking with SciVal in Scholarly Communication and Research Services 
• WEBINAR | Research impact metrics for librarians: calculation & context (May 19) 
• Establishing the ROI and value of corporate libraries 
• WEBINAR | How corporate information managers can demonstrate their services are mission critical (June 9) 
• Q&A | Fostering research community through library spaces and services at The Ohio State University Research Commons   
• Open science: Research data management | SlideShare 
• Download the ebooklet: A Librarian’s Process for Building an Institutional Repository 
• Article sharing on scholarly collaboration networks 
• Grants now open to train LIS professionals and users in developing countries on how to use Research4Life

• ScienceDirect has a new homepage 
• A rainbow of annotations: Colored highlighting is here on Mendeley 
• 6 simple search tips: Lessons learned from the Scopus webinar 
• US federal funding agencies' public access plans at-a-glance on CHORUS website

April 2016 - Vol. 14, No. 3 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• New ebooklet! A Librarian’s Process for Building an Institutional Repository 
• Article sharing on scholarly collaboration networks 
• Grants now open to train LIS professionals and users in developing countries on how to use Research4Life 
• WEBINAR | Fostering research community through library spaces and services 
• Take the survey: Data sharing for knowledge base maintenance (survey closed)
• Swiss librarians invited to a live Library Connect event on April 5 (event registration closed)

• New Librarians page on Elsevier.com 
• How to discover key influencers and uncover trends from your Scopus search results 
• Someone you know has a print disability; here’s how we’re helping 
• Investing in invisible infrastructure

March 2016 - Vol. 14, No. 2 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Three C’s of library leadership in the Pacific Rim: culture, context, change
• WEBINAR | Fostering research community through library spaces and services
• eBooks Savings Calculator enhanced with metric measurements and multiple currency labels 
• Download the Library Connect Yearbook 2015

Other Stories From Elsevier

• Data citation is becoming real with FORCE11 and Elsevier
• Elsevier’s Director of Access and Policy answers critical questions about Elsevier
• Expanded access choices for researchers with enhanced usage reports for librarians
• Elsevier’s International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences wins PROSE Award

February 2016 - Vol.14, No. 1 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Download the Library Connect Yearbook 2015 
• What would you like to know in 2016?
• As altmetrics turns 5, is it time to drop the ‘alt’? 
• eBook management: Would you sacrifice some control to improve access?

• Get the infographic! "Beyond Downloads: How scholars save & share articles"
• How scholars share journal articles: implications for the library
• WEBINAR now available | How researchers share articles: impact on library resources and services

December 2015 - Vol. 13, No. 11 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Get the infographic! "Beyond Downloads: How scholars save & share articles"
• How scholars share journal articles: implications for the library 
• WEBINAR now available | How researchers share articles: impact on library resources and services 
• VIDEO | Data-driven acquisition in the library
• Battle of the search engines — and the winner is...
• You are invited: The 2016 Hunter Forum @ALA Midwinter in Boston

Recent or Related 

• WEBINAR now available | Article, author and journal metrics: what librarians need to know
• The eBooks Savings Calculator — A handy tool for librarians
• WEBINAR now available | How to assist researchers in sharing their research data
• Data literacy in support of Research 2.0
• Supporting diverse and dispersed library users of child development resources

• The eBooks Savings Calculator — A handy tool for librarians 
• WEBINAR now available | How to assist researchers in sharing their research data 
• Data literacy in support of Research 2.0
• Supporting diverse and dispersed library users of child development resources
• Webinar | How researchers share articles: impact on library resources and services

• When less really is more: Automated holdings updates reduce librarians’ work and result in better access to subscribed content
• WEBINAR | How to assist researchers in sharing their research data
• Library Connect Event Switzerland 2015
• 4 metrics articles from the Journal of Informetrics available free until Oct. 31

For Engineering Librarians

• Engineering librarian resources for training researchers, students and faculty
• Webinar | Solving problems that matter: Critical insights for preparing the next generation of engineers

Special Metrics Edition - Vol. 13, No. 8 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• 2:AM Altmetrics Conference
• 4 metrics articles from the Journal of Informetrics available free until Sept. 30
• Library Connect Webinar Nov. 12 | Article, author and journal metrics: what librarians need to know

September 2015 - Vol. 13, No. 7 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Is it time to re-envision the role of academic librarians in faculty research?
• Personal Research Sessions: A consultation-based program for research support
• Transforming library services at one of Nigeria’s leading academic institutions: it’s not business as usual
• Automating IR updates: The University of Florida and Elsevier answer questions about their institutional repository pilot project

• Journey from entomologist to librarian 
• Shining a light on the reference librarian role as reference services adapt to users’ needs 
• Endeavour College librarians enhance knowledge and usage of Mendeley via certification program training
• WEBINAR | Mendeley Institutional Edition @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• FOR Chemistry Librarians: Share news of the Elsevier Green and Sustainable Chemistry Challenge

• Research data services for compliance, collaboration and scholarship
• Librarians can enhance services for early career researchers with Elsevier’s new Publishing Campus
• Webinar | Building a professional identity: from research to impact
• Webinar | Institutional & research repositories: Characteristics, relationships and roles

June 2015 - Volume 13, Number 5 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Infographic: Could you manage a one-person library?
• Growing ORCIDs at Texas A&M University Libraries
• Carol Tenopir answers questions from academic, special and public librarians on starting a research project
• 8 things librarians want to know about My Research Dashboard
• Promoting your article for maximum impact – It's as easy as 1,2,3 (… and 4!)
• WEBINAR now available | Building a professional identity: from research to impact

• Addressing data science’s big bell: UC Berkeley I School’s Master of Information and Data Science program
• Data Scientist Training for Librarians: A course and a community
• Now available: Creative data services in libraries - webinar, slides and resources 
• Bringing the library to first-year students: The Halls of Residence Librarian Programme 

• A collaborative effort to develop a data management curriculum
• Learning about research data in the lab at the Pitt iSchool
• Now available: Rise of the Databrarian webinar
• Download the infographic: Research data starter steps for libraries 

• Learning about research data in the lab at the Pitt iSchool
• A collaborative effort to develop a data management curriculum
• Now available: Rise of the Databrarian webinar
• Webinar: Beyond data management plans, creative data services in libraries
• New White Paper makes recommendations for improved usage, discovery and access of e-content in libraries
• Library Connect Photo Contest – Ending soon!
• From ebooks to usage metrics at the 2014 Charleston Conference 
   

October 2014 - Volume 12, Number 9 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Library Connect Photo Contest
• Help your authors “Get Noticed”
• Resources for librarians interested in web accessibility and digital resources

September 2014 - Volume 12, Number 8 | ISSN: 1549-3733

• Marketing the Academic Library: Free ePub/PDF download
• Web accessibility: Educating librarians means empowering users
• Kazakhstani librarians explore emerging global trends in university library development

• Going beyond bibliometric and altmetric counts to understand impact
• Altmetrics: A librarian's outlook on potential applications
• Altmetrics tell a story, but can you read it?

December 2017 - Vol. 15, No. 10 | ISSN: 1549-3733