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By Claus Rosenkrantz Hansen

Several European countries are now rejecting the price hikes that publishers like Elsevier have introduced in recent years.

Swedish researchers have to search in vain in their libraries these days for e-resources from the publishing giant Elsevier. The Swedish universities have withdrawn from negotiations with Elsevier after the substantial increases in subscription fees to their products, which the publisher has levied year after year. The result has been that 85 Swedish research institutions have been without access to Elsevier journals since July 1.

France and Germany have also pushed back against the price hikes. In France, a substantial sum has been allocated towards developing a system that bypasses the major legacy publishers. Negotiations are still underway in Germany, but researchers there have withdrawn from tasks like peer reviewing for journals in the Elsevier stable until an agreement is reached.

This is not likely to happen here. Denmark’s Electronic Research Library, which manages the subscriptions on behalf of the Danish research libraries, is currently in negotiations with Elsevier for the period starting in 2019.

The negotiations will hopefully result in a new agreement between the Danish research libraries and Elsevier, ensuring that researchers and students from CBS will continue to have access to resources from Elsevier. If a new agreement is reached, however, it will almost certainly be more expensive for the Danish universities than the current one.

In Denmark, we’re taking a long view of the problem. The publishers’ monopolies and aggressive pricing strategies are being addressed, for example, by the introduction of a national open access strategy, which is to culminate in 2025, when there is to be free access to all publications from Danish universities, thereby ensuring that researchers at least have access to Danish publications.

If you have any questions about this, please contact Birgit Brejnebøl

By Liv Bjerge Laursen

The reorganization of the academic departments requires larger and smaller adjustments throughout the CBS organization and the CBS Library is no exception, where we have had to reassign a number of our liaison librarians.
Please note that these changes also affect some of the departments that have not been reorganized.

The department’s liaison librarian is a one-point entry for researchers and other department employees in need of library services. Whether it is about finding information, accessing databases, managing references, research registration, open access, data management, publication strategy, copyright, teaching your students about the use of the library, and much more, your liaison librarian can either help you directly or find someone who can.

Here is the list of the new liaison librarians:

By Joshua Kragh Bruhn

This fall will see the launch of a brand new initiative from CBS Library, the CBS Library Forum, an event operation integrated in the Solbjerg Plads library and dedicated to the promotion and facilitation of informal and dialogical interaction between CBS research communities and students.

The CBS Library Forum is not intended as a replacement or even a reinvention of traditional lecture hall interactions. Rather we plan it as a place where CBS faculty and students can share and discuss thoughts and ideas not necessarily part of any particular syllabus or dictated by specific predefined learning outcomes in an open, curious, and egalitarian way.

To this end we have spent a lot of time and exerted a great deal of effort to create a both relevant and hopefully inspiring physical setting for the type of event we are hoping to attract and host in future. This new purpose built space will officially open in September and we plan to host a couple of events every month.

The new service is in many ways a break with the traditional, or perhaps more accurately traditionally perceived, role of the library as a place dedicated to quiet and calm as it for the first time introduces into the library the element of deliberate and meaningful noise. This is of course something we have taken very seriously in the design process as we are not trying to push people away.

The success of the project depends entirely on our ability to attract interesting and interested presenters from among CBS faculty. CBS Library will of course be proactive and reach out to potential candidates but as we do not have detailed insights into all the interesting research currently undertaken at CBS we also encourage, emphatically, researchers to get in touch with us.   

For more information please contact Joshua Kragh Bruhn

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By Liv Bjerge Laursen

How do the past 200 years look through the eyes of the central bank of Denmark? This question is answered in the anniversary publication that was issued by Danmarks Nationalbank this summer.

It’s a story that includes long periods of robust growth, but also dramatic episodes during which the stability of prices, payment methods, and the financial sector have been at stake.

 The anniversary publication provides an overview of the 200-year history of Danmarks Nationalbank, with an emphasis on what is most interesting to the present. The book is available for free as a pdf file and is available in both Danish and English.Jubilæumsbog: Danmarks Nationalbank 1818-2018
Anniversary Publication: Danmarks National Bank 1818-2018

Danmarks Nationalbank has also published a smaller booklet with the most important highlights from its history.
Jubilæumshæfte: Danmarks Nationalband 200 år
Anniversary Booklet: Danmarks Nationalbank 200 years

*Source: Danmarks Nationalbank https://www.nationalbanken.dk/da/presse/billederogfilm/Sider/default.aspx

By Mette Bechmann

As you know, we will gladly come out and teach your students how to conduct a solid literature search, how to reference and set up a bibliography correctly, or how to structure their writing process. You are always welcome to contact us to get a tailor-made course for a specific programme.

Each semester we also set up a range of brush-up courses in the above subjects, plus courses in for example NVivo, referencing software, finding company and market data, etc.
These courses are now ready for booking in the Library Course Calendar.

If you think some of your students could benefit from the courses, please do feel free to distribute the info.
If you want to know more, please contact Mette Bechmann