In Focus

Illinois librarians say deep ethnographic research is the best way to learn how to serve Latino students.

Despite legal roadblock in Google Books project, libraries might soon benefit from other digital search-and-retrieval services.

A long-awaited decision by a federal judge could be a significant blow to Google's attempts to sell access to books it scanned from university libraries.

At meeting of campus planners, 2 colleges describe cost-effective efforts to transform outmoded libraries into vibrant centers of campus activity.

A U. of Virginia media scholar details the ways in which knowledge, learning, and higher education have been 'Googlized,' and why that spells trouble for intellectual life.

A new paper takes aim at a crucial incentive for publishing in open-access scholarly journals.

Digital journal aggregators move en masse to join Google in making full-length books available in searchable archives.

Data analytics are changing the ways to judge the influence of papers and journals.

Special issue of journal features articles suggesting current approaches won't work -- and urges more collaboration among presses and between presses and their home institutions.

Effort by leading research universities to rethink the economics of scholarly journals has an underwhelming first year, and experts caution against expectations of quick change.