Drawing on an original methodology using citations, downloads, and survey data, this paper analyzes journal usage patterns across 28 Canadian universities. Results show that levels vary disciplines different academic platforms varied in their importance to institutions, with for-profit generally exhibiting lower usage. These results suggest economic inefficiencies exist “big deal” subscriptions...

the knowledge of local and regional factors that affect effective solidwaste collection plays an important role in choosing appropriate technology. wastecollection has grown to become a major challenge demanding daily response from wastemanagers and it becomes inevitable to provide stakeholders with necessary information toaid key decision-making. this paper provides a comprehensive and detaile...

Climate change is one of the biggest threats to our continued existence. While resources and research about climate are readily available, what do public libraries need be doing, as last free spaces, bridge gap between complex information community action? This extended abstract, based on a larger paper, explores various ways can active members their communities promote conversations with speci...