Emerging Library & Information Perspectives

ELIP highlight of the week: "That time I fell down a (research) hole and had to create a zine on how to consult manga and anime to fight my way out!!!"

https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/inde.../elip/article/view/14526/11743

Written by Kawmadie Karunanayake for ELIP's "For the Field" section, this zine is meant to serve as a Reader's Consultation for Manga and Anime. Karunanayake created this zine to "facilitate the inclusion of anime and manga when conducting reader’s consultation, specifically for adult patrons" (2022).

Karunanayake provides a well-written guide for beginners who may be interested in anime or manga but may not know where to start. Karunanayake's informative zine is also accompanied by beautiful illustrations that you surely won't want to miss!

Just a reminder that while ELIP is offered online for free via the ELIP website (link above), the FIMS Graduate Library is now also offering mini chapbooks of the most recent ELIP edition as well. Just ask the service desk if you have any questions!

ELIP highlight of the week: "OA isn't free, it costs folks like you and me"

For this week's ELIP highlight, we are featuring an article written by John Bryans about Open Access (OA). In Bryans' article "OA isn't free, it costs folks like you and me", Bryans challenges the mindset that OA is "a progressive movement that challenges neoliberalism and champions the public good" (2022). Bryans argues that rather than being progressive, "initiatives to mandate OA in academia like “Plan S” often function as blunt implements that wrest control from academics" and "would see academics voluntarily alienate themselves from their labour" (2022). Bryans successfully breaks down the downsides to Open Access, and why neglecting to acknowledge the amount of labour required to create academic documents can be harmful for both current and aspiring academic publishers.

If you're interested in learning more about Open Access and how it affects academics and scholars, we would definitely recommend giving Bryans article a look!

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