SPARC Report Urges Action to Address Concerns with ScienceDirect Data Privacy Practices
Today, SPARC released Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Elsevier’s ScienceDirect. Produced in collaboration with Becky… read more
Disrupting the Digital Status Quo: Why and How to Staff for Privacy in Academic Libraries – Licensing Privacy Project
This paper is a roadmap to a shift of both mindset and practice in staffing academic libraries for privacy. Though… read more
Are library vendors doing enough to protect users? A content analysis of major ILS privacy policies (McKinnon & Turp)
While privacy is a core value of librarianship, privacy standards differ by library and library vendor. These types of guidelines… read more
Resisting Crisis Surveillance Capitalism in Academic Libraries (Bignoli et al., 2021)
In this paper, we consider what we identify as crisis surveillance capitalism in higher education, drawing on the work of… read more
Proposal to install spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights shocks academics – Code
A recent proposal recommending the deployment of surveillance software in order to monitor those accessing academic material has drawn fire… read more
From Paywall to Datawall – The Scholarly Kitchen
Well, sure, the article is “free” in the sense there is no monetary transaction. But, not free in the sense that… read more
Data tracking in research: Aggregation and use or sale of usage data by academic publishers (DFG)
Hat-tip Carrie Preston! This briefing paper issued by the Committee on Scientific Library Services and Information Systems (AWBI) of the… read more
Addressing the Alarming Systems of Surveillance Built By Library Vendors
Two major library vendors—RELX and Thomson Reuters—have been building sophisticated, global systems of surveillance that include online tracking technologies, massive… read more
Information Ethics and Academic Libraries: Data Privacy in the Era of Big Data (Prindle & Loos)
The evolution of data collection practices in education is having a powerful and transformative effect on educational assessment practices. Increasing… read more
Privacy literacy practices in academic libraries: Past, present, and possibilities
Hartman-Caverly, S. & Chisholm, A. (2020). Privacy literacy practices in academic libraries: Past, present, and possibilities. IFLA Journal. doi.org/10.1177/0340035220956804 (open… read more