Earlier this year, over at medium , I blogged about the Library Discovery and the Open Access challenge and asked librarians to consider how library discovery should react to the increasing pool of free material due to the inevitable rise of open access.
In recently months, I've become increasingly concerned about the competition faced by individual siloed institutional repository versus bigger more centralised repositories like subject repositories and commercial competitors like ResearchGate.
Since I've joined my new institution more than a year ago, I've focused a lot on this thing called "library analytics".
Recently, a researcher I was talking to remarked to me that University staff can be jumpy around copyright questions and some would immediately duck for cover the moment they heard the word "copyright".
Despite writing a bit more on open access and repositories in the last few years, I find the issues incredibly deep and nuanced and I am always thinking and learning about them.
Long time readers of my blog know that I'm a bit of a worrier when it comes to libraries,
2016 seems to the year Sci-hub has broken out into popular consciousness.
It's probably a coincidence but I have been recently getting queries about pursuing a career as a academic librarian in Singapore, so I decided to write "So you want to be a academic librarian in Singapore?"
In Aug 2014, I wrote the speculative "How academic libraries may change when Open Access becomes the norm".
When I was back in school, I dreaded art class as I was simply horrible at it.
UPDATE : Years after I wrote this OCLC now offers Ezproxy analytics which uses Ezpaarse and Elastic's Kibana for dashboards.