Information Access Seminar

Coye Cheshire explores the trustworthiness of health information in online environments.

Jevin West studies misinformation and how it spreads in science and society.

The Open Book Collective is a partnership of open access publishers, infrastructure providers, libraries, and other non-profit organizations.

The concept of relevance is central to information studies but has resisted clear analysis.

Ron Day explores a new philosophy of information and documents based on Robert Pagès, Bernd Frohmann, and Suzanne Briet.

Clifford Lynch summarizes recent report releases and other publications and conference reports.

Clifford Lynch outlines emerging trends and issues in networked information and related technologies.

Jeffrey A. Hart presents an overview of his new book, Essays on the History and Politics of the Internet: Cyberpolitics.

Cybersecurity Futures 2030 is a foresight-focused scenario-planning exercise considering how cybersecurity is set to transform over the next five to seven years.

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 105th birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Johanna Drucker is a Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at UCLA and is internationally known for her work in digital humanities.

Greenpeace recently declared that we are living in “the golden age of greenwashing.” Paul Duguid looks at how we got there.

Comparing the difficulty in measuring “relevance” in information science and “innovation” in economics.

Findings from Ithaka S+R’s research into the successes, needs, and gaps in the publishing community’s shared infrastructure

How Twitter’s recent changes might affect reproducible research and good research practice.

A discussion of the challenges, with adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.

Librarians’ traditional distinction between “known item” search and “subject” search leads to theoretical clarification of the nature of catalogs, of metadata, and of search.

Thoughts on stewardship of the scholarly and cultural record from adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.

Funding for academic research libraries nationally and internationally has been declining for at least two decades. Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason presents critical choices facing research libraries.