The Authority File

In the second episode of this four-part series, Claudine Nightingale, Publisher, and Ana Attrill-Klein, Quartex Product Specialist, both of AM, offer a closer look at AM’s  First Folios Compared , an open access collection of more than 40 copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio. Our guests explain the logistics behind the project’s digitization requirement and highlight the time and effort the digitiz...

In the second episode of this four-part series, Chelsea Lee, instructional lead, and Timothy McAdoo, manager, both of APA Style, talk references. They provide an overview of the principles of references, underlining the key goal to identify your source and show others where to find it. They also dispel some popular myths of referencing, such as avoiding sources older than five years old or  encycl...

Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, or the First Folio, collects 36 of the playwright’s works, including his most celebrated plays like Macbeth, The Tempest, and Hamlet. Published seven years after his death, the First Folio is considered an authoritative and highly significant collection in scholarship on Shakespeare’s life, plays, and literature writ large. This past...

APA Style originated in the early 20th century as a way to instruct American Psychological Association authors on proper paper formatting. Since then, APA Style has expanded to inform students and researchers on how to write clearly and concisely. Through tutorials, blog posts, and open feedback, APA Style works with the academic community to keep guidance up-to-date, inclusive, and coherent. In t...

In the final episode of this four-part series, Ronald Williamson, founder and Senior Associate of Archaeological Services Inc. and co-editor of  The History and Archaeology of the Iroquois du Nord , chats about the artifacts and Indigenous art from the sites of the Iroquois du Nord, a 17th-century series of Haudenosaunee settlements on the north shore of Lake Ontario. Ron explains how these materi...

In the final episode of this four-part series, Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo, discusses the concept of translucency that appears in her book,  Performing Female Blackness . She explains how the concept connects to a phrase she pens in the text, “This is who I perform.” Grappling with the autonomy of the “performer,”...

In the third episode of this four-part series, Ronald Williamson, co-editor of The History and Archaeology of the Iroquois du Nord , provides historical context for the Iroquois du Nord, a series of Haudenosaunee settlements on the north shore of Lake Ontario in the 1600s. He describes the conflicts between the French, English, and Dutch during this time period, in addition to background on the Be...

In the third episode of this four-part series, author of  Performing Female Blackness  Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae describes the modes of engagement she employs in her book, research, and creative works. A multidisciplinary artist and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo, Naila combines academic prose with artistic mediums—poetry, play excerpts, song c...

In the second episode of this four-part series, Ronald Williamson, Founder and Senior Associate of Archaeological Services Inc., dives deeper into his coedited volume,  The History and Archaeology of the Iroquois du Nord . First, he outlines the lack of published material available on the archeology of the Iroquois du Nord, a 17th-century series of Haudenosaunee settlements on the north shore of L...

In the second episode of this four-part series, Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae, a multidisciplinary artist and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo, discusses blending her artistic and academic sides in her book,  Performing Female Blackness . As the subject, artist, and researcher of her title, Naila explores how these identities worked in tangent—not op...

The History and Archaeology of the Iroquois du Nord  delves into the mystery surrounding the Iroquois du Nord, a series of Haudenosaunee settlements on the north shore of Lake Ontario in the 17th century. Ronald Williamson, co-editor of the title and Founder and Senior Associate of Archaeological Services Inc., joins The Authority File to discuss the lack of published material on the archeology of...

Performing Female Blackness , the latest title from Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae, considers Black life through the intersectional lens of race, gender, and nation. Utilizing mediums of poetry, prose, journal entries, and drawings, Naila works to demonstrate how Black women are expected to perform in private and public spaces. In this four-part series, Naila, a multidisciplinary artist and Associate Profes...

In the final episode of this four-part series, Emily Farrell, Global Commercial Director for Open Research at Taylor & Francis, and Jennifer Townes, Open Access Librarian at Emory University, discuss current OA milestones and future wish list items. Our guests explore how open access is driving open research, particularly in areas of open data and open peer review. They also examine how 2022’s...

In the final episode of this four-part series, Barbie Keiser, information resources management (IRM) consultant and Reference and Instruction Librarian at Northern Virginia Community College, reflects on future developments in artificial intelligence and open access. First, she focuses on positive progress in AI by spotlighting tools that can assist with job interviews, video transcriptions, and e...

In the third episode of this four-part series, our guests dig into current challenges to open access funding and sustainability. Emily Farrell, Global Commercial Director for Open Research at Taylor & Francis, stresses the need to collaborate among stakeholders and shares hopes that efforts are now moving toward a more communicative and collective strategy. Jenny Townes, Open Access Librarian...

In the third episode of our four-part series with information resources management (IRM) consultant Barbie Keiser, she highlights new opportunities for libraries in scholarly communication. First, Barbie walks through the benefits of establishing both short-term and long-term library projects, targeting specific disciplines in messaging, and updating language to appeal to patrons and administratio...

In the second episode of this four-part series, Jenny Townes, Open Access Librarian at Emory University, walks through the librarian’s role in supporting open access resources. She shares how librarians must act as facilitators for OA research—not gatekeepers—and can buttress this work through intentional budget management and keeping up with external OA projects. Jenny also predicts that libraria...

In the second episode of this four-part series, Barbie Keiser, information resources management (IRM) consultant and Reference and Instruction Librarian at Northern Virginia Community College, considers broader market forces impacting scholarly communication. To start, she discusses the evolution in dissemination and promotional strategies by vendors, publishers, and technology companies. Spotligh...

In this four-part series, we speak with Emily Farrell, Global Commercial Director for Open Research at Taylor & Francis, and Jennifer Townes, Open Access Librarian at Emory University, about current and future open access resource trends. Our guests bring the librarian and publisher perspectives to the OA discussion, parsing through questions of how librarians and publishers can support open r...

In this four-episode series, we’re joined by Barbie Keiser, information resources management (IRM) consultant and Reference and Instruction Librarian at Northern Virginia Community College. Barbie highlights broader market forces at play in scholarly communication, including the transformations made by platform vendors, academic publishers, and educational technology companies to support researche...

In the final episode of this four-part series, Nicole Gallo, Executive Vice President of Rittenhouse Book Distributors, chats about current business trends, leveraging data, and digital purchasing. First, she spotlights how indispensable data is to Rittenhouse’s operation, by informing sales reports for publishers and purchasing decisions by libraries. She also digs into Rittenhouse’s strategies f...

In the final episode of this four-part series, our guests discuss the pandemic’s impact on library, faculty, and publisher approaches to student success and evolving strategies for the future. First, Ceceilia Parnther, assistant professor in the Department of Administrative and Instructional Leadership at St. John’s University, María Evelia Emerson, Student Success Librarian at University of Illin...

In this third episode of our four-part series with Nicole Gallo, Executive Vice President of Rittenhouse Book Distributors, she walks through the execution of Rittenhouse’s strategies to support library and publisher markets. First, she dives into how the distributor has updated its operational practices to better communicate with publishers and market their resources. In addition, Nicole chats ab...

In the third episode of this four-part series, our guests chat about strategies for creating and maintaining partnerships with campus stakeholders to bolster student success. First, Ceceilia Parnther, assistant professor in the Department of Administrative and Instructional Leadership at St. John’s University, María Evelia Emerson, Student Success Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Cha...

In the second episode of this four-part series, Nicole Gallo, Executive Vice President of Rittenhouse Book Distributors, shares market perspectives on how publishers and librarians are supporting DEI initiatives. First, Nicole surfaces current pain points and the distributor’s response, highlighting budget issues for libraries and publication speed for publishers. Next, she explains how the publis...