Tag: open access

New Issue: Provenance, Mini-Issue

From the Editor:

The Archivist in me acknowledges that this is being published on January 19, 2026. The Reviews Editor in me will stand by dating the issue as 12/31/2025 as a nod to the tremendous efforts this past year from the Review Contributors, whose reviews are included within. However, the Archivist in me also must note that a lot has happened in our world between 2025 and today, further highlighting the tension of timeliness for me. While my heart regrets that a full issue was not published in 2025 given a variety of challenges, there is another part of me that recognizes that with a new year often comes fresh starts to personal and professional commitments, granting a different sense of timeliness. What will you be reading in 2026? What topics might you explore more deeply? What voices are you interested in reviewing yourself for a future issue? My hope is that you feel invited to explore a variety of perspectives and options as part of your professional development reading, inspired by these reviews. Please stay tuned for a separate articles-based issue in the near future. Thank you and happy (intentional) reading in 2026 and beyond.

Brittany “Britt” Parris, Reviews Editor (2024-2026)

Reviews

Review: Photo Archives and the Place of Photography
Alex Brinson

Review: Archival Virtue: Relationship, Obligation, and the Just Archives
Penny Cliff

Review: Archivist Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival Practice Against Incarceration
Lauren Goodley

Review: Archives 101
Autumn M. Johnson

Review: The Afterlife of Palestinian Images: Visual Remains and the Archive of Disappearance
Cathy Miller

Review: The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
shady Radical PhD

Review: Teaching Primary Source Research Skills to 21st-Century Learners
Michelle Schabowski


Review: Digital Archives and Collections: Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage
Jessica Wylie

New Issue: ESARBICA Journal: Journal of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives

Editorial
Segomotso Keakopa , Mehluli Masuku

Repatriation of the World Council of Churches’ 1948-1960 archives from Switzerland to South Africa
Sidney Nkholedzeni Netshakhuma

Engaging the public through archives: a systematic review of participatory approaches in public programming
Mthokozisi Masumbika Ncube, Patrick Ngulube

Leveraging artificial intelligence for ethical archiving and democratising access to sensitive historical narratives
Prince Kudakwashe Madziwa, Takunda Michael Ralph Chingonzo

The custody questionownership and control of armed struggle archives in Zimbabwe
Heather Ndlovu, Elizabeth Kyazike, Peterson Dewah

Digital transformation for leveraging police case records management to support justice for all in South Africa
Ngoako Marutha

International diplomacy versus Zimbabwean archival heritage: challenges and prospects of repatriating migrated archives in Zimbabwe
Adock Dube, Trevor Gumbo, Masithokoze Hlabangana

An assessment of the storage systems for medical records in public healthcare facilities in Malawi
Austin Phiri, Antonio Rodrigues

Expanding the archival boundary through a “community archives” project in Zimbabwe
Samuel Chabikwa, Patrick Ngulube

Unlocking digital records enhancing accessibility for effective records management at Zomba District Council in Malawi
Clement Mweso

The impact of artificial intelligence on modern records and archives management practices
Andrew Asasiira

Artificial intelligence in records management in Africa: opportunities and threats
Ndakasharwa Muchaonyerwa, Sharon Ndlovu

New Journal: Humanities Methods in Librarianship

Humanities Methods in Librarianship is a no-fee, open access journal that publishes high quality, peer-reviewed research with an emphasis on articles that push the boundaries — both thematically and formally — of what has been traditionally viewed as scholarship within the discipline. The journal aims to broaden the conversation by encouraging submissions that deploy methods from the humanities to address current or salient questions related to libraries, librarians, and librarianship. Humanistic methodological approaches may be used to address a wide range of topics within librarianship, so we encourage creative approaches and a diversity of submissions.

Submission types may include but are not limited to:

  • Conceptual, philosophical, or theoretical discussions
  • Literary, critical, or textual analyses of major (or minor) works within the literature
  • Historical analyses and histories of the profession
  • Personal narratives and autoethnography
  • Creative non-fiction
  • Interviews or oral histories

We aim to publish original work, but the journal will consider papers that have been presented at conferences. We won’t review or accept work that is currently under consideration elsewhere.

Authors are welcome to reach out to the editors to share a synopsis or an abstract in advance of submission to determine if their topic is within scope. We hope to have our first call for papers in early 2026.

Recent Issue: IFLA Journal

IFLA Journal Volume 51, No.3 (October 2025)
Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence (AI): Transforming Global Librarianship
(open access)

Editorial

Artificial intelligence in libraries: The emerging research agenda
Andrew M Cox and Xuemao Wang

Original Article

Do we trust ourselves? Is the human the weak link?
Kate Mercer, Kari D Weaver, Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher and Makhan Virdi

Review Article

AI literacy guidelines and policies for academic libraries: A scoping review
Muhammad Yousuf Ali and Joanna Richardson

Case Study

Skills and AI literacy of engineering students
Thuy Thanh Bui, Son Hong Do and Ly Dieu Dinh

Original Articles

Artificial intelligence literacy among South Asian library and information science students: Socio-demographic influences and educational implications
Zakir Hossain, Md Sakib Biswas, Nadim Akhtar Khan and Ghalib Khan

Generative artificial intelligence and university libraries in Latin America
Humberto Martínez-Camacho, César Saavedra-Alamillas, Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza and Juan D Machin-Mastromatteo

Use of artificial intelligence innovations in public academic libraries
Amogelang Isaac Molaudzi and Patrick Ngulube

The potential of GPTs for enhanced information access and user services at academic libraries
Faten Hamad and Ahmed Shehata

Bridging the AI gap: Comparative analysis of AI integration, education, and outreach in academic libraries
Jairo Buitrago-Ciro, Marta Samokishyn, Rachel Moylan, Jonathan Hernández Pérez, Oluwabunmi Bakare-Fatungase and Carmel Firdawsi

Preserving indigenous knowledge: Leveraging digital technology and artificial intelligence
Adeyinka Tella, Esther Oluwayemi Jatto and Yusuf Ayodeji Ajani

The development of policies on generative artificial intelligence in UK universities
Thomas D Wilson

Essay

Cutting through the noise: Assessing tools that employ artificial intelligence
Leticia Antunes Nogueira, Stine Thordarson Moltubakk, Andreas Fagervik and Inga Buset Langfeldt

Original Articles

Exploring the potential of artificial intelligence usage in the knowledge and evidence services of a public health body: A working group approach
Zalaya Simmons, Charlotte Bruce, Samuel Thomas, Patricia Lacey, Wendy Marsh, Scott Rosenberg and Daphne Duval

ChatGPT’s potential in the deep exploration of Islamic manuscripts
Elsayed Elsawy, Yousry Elseadawy and Sarah Attia

Facing the era of generative artificial intelligence: Strategies of information and digital literacy in Chinese studies
Bing Wang, Cecilia Zhang, Khamo and Shuqi Ye

Case Study

AI and labor: Captioning library audiovisual content with Whisper
Nina Rao, Simon O’Riordan and Jonathan Coulis

Original Articles

Transforming parliamentary libraries: Enhancing processes delivering new services with artificial intelligence 
Francisco Cifuentes-Silva, Hernán Astudillo and Jose Emilio Labra Gayo

Enhancing library services with artificial intelligence: A framework for an automated news delivery system
PJ Jhan, MG Sreekumar and Rosemary Kuriakose

Recent Issue: The Journal of the Copyright Society

The Journal of the Copyright Society 72, no. 3
Special Issue: Libraries and Collections
(open access)

From the Desk of the Editor-in-Chief
PART I: PRESERVATION
Heritage Collections and Preservation Panel
With Rina Pantalony, Brian O’Leary, David Sutton,
Trevor Reed, and Margaret Bodde 559

Revisiting The National Film Preservation Act of 1988: An Introduction and Reprinting of Eric J. Schwartz’s
1989 Journal of the Copyright Society Article
By Eric J. Schwartz 587

PART II: ARTICLES
Will Google v. Oracle Save the World’s Cultural Heritage?
By Brandon Butler 593

No One “Owns” That: Metadata, Copyright, and Problems with [Library] Vendor Agreements
By Kyle Courtney, Kathleen DeLaurenti, Matthew Kopel,
and Katie Zimmerman 621

Protecting Library Exceptions Against Contract Override
By Jonathan Band 659

Contractual Override: How Private Contracts Undermine  the Goals of Copyright Act for Libraries and Researchers,
And What We Can Do About It
By Dave Hansen, Yuanxiao Xu, and Rachael G. Samberg 675

Protecting Progress: Copyright’s Common Law and Libraries
By Margaret Chon 761

Understanding the Internet Archive Litigation Cases
By Sara Benson 819

“Beam Me A Book, Scotty:” Virtual Access Rooms Under Section 108 of the Copyright Act
By Kyle Courtney 831

PART III: LECTURE
Libraries, Education, and Fair Use: A Lecture
By Kenneth D. Crews with Elizabeth Townsend Gard 861

PART IV: ANNUAL CASE SUMMARIES
Recent Developments in Copyright Law: Selected Annotated Cases
By Thomas Kjellberg, Joelle Milov, Dasha Chestukhin,
Jaime Berman, Allison Furnari, Paige Geier, Justin Karasick,
Sarah Sue Landau, John Miranda, Raphael Nemes,
Reema Pangarkar, Emily Stein and Lyndsey Waddington – 897

New Issue: VIEW, Journal of European Television History and Culture

Volume 14 – Issue 28 – 2025
With and Against the Grain: Creative Dialogues with Broadcast Archives

Editorial

With and Against the Grain: Creative Dialogues with Broadcast Archives
Bas Agterberg, Lisa Kerrigan, Dana Mustata, Alistair Scott

Enthusiasms

More Than a Game: Television Archives in Two Acts
Nevena Popović

“They Lack Imagination…” ─ Valérie Wilson and Trans Life in the Audiovisual Archive
Christopher Wolff, Jesse Blanchard

‘Angélica la palenquera’: Collective Memory and a Decolonial Reimagining of Archival Futures
Laura Alhach, Rodolfo Palomino Cassiani

Decolonising the BBC Radio Archive: Challenges, Opportunities, Ethics of Care and Access
Sylvie Carlos, Matt Green, Eleni Liarou

ATLas Chronicles. Designing and Valorising an Italian Archive of Past Local TV Channels
Luca Barra, Diego Cavallotti, Emiliano Rossi

Coventry Cathedral: Exploring Reflexivity in a Collage Film
John Wyver

Lockerbie Pan Am 103 – Tracking the Evolving Re-Use of Archive Broadcast News
Alistair Scott

“Preserving Atrocity”: Mental Health and the Broadcast Media Archivist
Michael Marlatt

Expanding the Small Screen: Exhibiting Northern Irish Television Archive
Rose Baker

Academic Research Articles

Caring for Past Media from Below: Bottom-up Practices and Networks Supporting Obsolete Broadcast Technologies
Sergio Minniti, Roberta Spada

Broadcasting from Below: Television Archives, Microhistory, and the Many Voices of 1990s Sicily
Vladimir Rosas-Salazar

From the Culch: Lost in the Archives, Found in the Community
Paul Mulraney

Open Contributions

Pingu and the Emergence of Merchandising within Swiss Public Service Television
Chloé Hofmann

New Issue: RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage

RBM, Vol. 26, Issue 2, Fall 2025
(open access)

Editor’s Note

Fact Check
Diane Dias De Fazio

Articles

Navigating Social Networks at the Margins: Women in Science Archives, Then and Now
Bethany G. Anderson, Mary Borgo Ton, Kristen Allen Wilson

Neutrality Unbound: The Value of Rare Book Collections in STEMM Classrooms
Chad Kamen

“If This Book Should Chance to Roam”: The Importance of Children’s Marginalia in Rare Books Collections
Elliott Kuecker, Katie Grotewiel, Zoe Thomas

Reviews

Gracen Brilmyer and Lydia Tang, eds. Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession. Library Juice Press, 2024.
Matrice Young

Andi Gustavson and Charlotte Nunes, eds. Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives. Lever Press, 2023. Print/Open access.
Jeannette Schollaert

New Issue: OHA Journal

Issue No. 47, 2025
The Power of Oral History—Risks, Rewards & Possibilities
(open access)

Editorial and Contents

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Reports

Reviews

Awards

Awards report including:

  • Hazel de Berg Award for Excellence in Oral History 2024
  • Oral History Australia Book Award 2024
  • Oral History Australia Media Awards 2024

New Articles: Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

“Enrolled Deeds as Records and Archives in Jamaica“
Andrew Williams

“Enhancing Archives and Records Management in Low-Resourced Organizations through Experiential Learning“
Jinfang Niu

“Student-Designed Archival Pedagogy: A Workshop-As-Research Approach to Pluralizing Community Archives Education“
Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak

“Archival Notations of the Norwegian Charter Material“
Juliane Tiemann

Recent Issue: Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies

Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2025

Strangers in a Strange Land: Connections among Spanish Chant Manuscripts in US Public Collections
Kathleen Sewright

A Scribe’s Luxury Manuscript: Text and Image in a Hebrew Medical Tract (Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.10.68)
Sivan Gottlieb

From St Albans to Chartres: John of Salisbury and the Lost Historia Johannis Turonensis
Joanna Frońska

Est / Non Est: Crafting the Shield of Faith Trinity in Thirteenth-Century England
Sophie Kelly

Levina Teerlinc, Mary I’s Legal Limner?
Kathleen E. Kennedy

“The Most Precious Volume That Has Been Sold for a Century”: The Golden Gospels and the Manuscripts Trade, ca. 1882–1900
Ana de Oliveira Dias

Confucius and the Richness of Ancient Chinese Manuscripts
Maddalena Poli

A Note on UPenn LJS 358: (Re-)Identifying a Manuscript
Eva Del Soldato

A Tree with Many Roots: Introducing the Zysk Collection of Indic Manuscripts
Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Anuj Misra, Kenneth Gregory Zysk

Reading Nature in the Early Middle Ages: Writing, Language, and Creation in the Latin “Physiologus,” ca. 700–1000 by Anna Dorofeeva (review)
Aylin Malcolm

Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England by Katherine Storm Hindley (review)
Caroline R. Batten

The Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England by Peter Murray Jones (review)
Sarah Star

Beyond the Silk and Book Roads: Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture ed. by Michelle C. Wang and Ryan Richard Overbey (review)
Xin Wen

Strange Tales from Edo: Rewriting Chinese Fiction in Early Modern Japan by William D. Fleming (review)
William C. Hedberg

The Cartulary of Prémontré ed. by Yvonne Seale and Heather Wacha (review)
Joanna Tucker

Radomir Psalter, and: Paleographic and textological analysis edition ed. by Catherine Mary MacRobert et al., and: Facsimile reproduction by Ekaterina Dikova, Hieromonk Athanasius, Liljana Makarijoska (review)
Julia Verkholantsev

Lost but Not Forgotten: The Saga of Hrómundur and Its Manuscript Transmission by Katarzyna Anna Kapitan (review)
Christine Schott