W&M Libraries Blog

2018

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  Celebrating the Festival of Lights: New Donation

  Posted on December 10, 2018
  From the Special Collections Blog
  As the holiday season begins, we thought it appropriate to highlight a recent addition to our collection that coincides with the festivities of the season.
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  Sustainable Collections: Spending Trends with Big Deal Publishers

  Posted on December 4, 2018
  From the WM Libraries Blog
  The collections budget of the university libraries is subject to enormous inflationary pressures for scholarly content.  This issue is of supreme importance to universities around the globe, with libraries in many countries working on strategies to provide greater access to information without monopolizing their entire budgets on a small number of for-profit journal publishers.  This year, we have worked with other universities in the state to analyze our own journal subscriptions, particularly those subscriptions which we have with the top academic publishers in the world.