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VOLUME 37, NUMBER 3
JUNE 2025 TM
ISSN: 1043-2094
“Linking Publishers, Vendors and Librarians”
Lawsuits Brought Against Scholarly Publishers Guest Edited by AJ Boston
(Associate Professor and Scholarly Communication Librarian, Murray State University) Begins on Page 14
If Rumors Were Horses
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Mergers & Acquisitions Big news straight out of the gate: Knowledge Unlatched finds a new home with Annual Reviews! It was recently announced that AR signed an agreement with Wiley that enables Knowledge Unlatched (KU) — most recently owned and operated by Wiley — to move to a new home within the Annual Reviews organization. The move supports one of the most recognized initiatives in open access publishing and marks KU’s return to nonprofit stewardship. “Knowledge Unlatched has played a formative role in showing that open access for books and monographs is possible at scale,” said Richard Gallagher, President and Editor-in-Chief of Annual Reviews. “We’re excited to build on this legacy. KU will remain at the forefront of open access book publishing, help more journal publishers adopt continued on page 8
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THIS ISSUE: In Conversation with Megan and Tara....................................... 14 Uddin v. Elsevier: Peculiar By Design?.................................. 20 Federal Oversight Targets Scholarly Publishing................. 22 Academic Libraries, Legal Infrastructure, and Information Politics.................. 24 Expanded Access in a World of Corporate Capture................ 27 Discovering the Rest of the Story............................................. 30
REGULAR COLUMNS
Bet You Missed It....................... 10 Reader’s Roundup..................... 33 Booklover.................................... 37 Questions and Answers............ 38 And They Were There............... 41 Seeing the Whole Board.......... 47 Wandering the Web.................. 49 The Digital Toolbox.................. 52 Optimizing Library Services.... 54 Libraries, Leadership, and Synergies.................................... 71 Back Talk..................................... 74
LUMINARIES
Clare Graham............................. 56 Nancy Kwangwa......................... 58
INTERVIEWS
Torsten Reimer.......................... 62 Andrea Cayetano-Jefferson..... 66
PROFILES ENCOURAGED People, Library and Company Profiles........................................ 69 Plus more...................... See inside