Cornell University Library announced today that it wants the top institutional users of arXiv.org to help pay for the online scientific repository. “Keeping an open-access resource like arXiv ...

Individual authors and authors’ groups around the world are suing Cornell and four other universities, alleging that the universities’ library digitization projects are an illegal infringement of ...

Librarians have long complained about the nondisclosure agreements, or NDA’s, that some publishers and vendors require them to sign, making it difficult to share information about how much they pay to ...

A bust of President Abraham Lincoln and a plaque of the Gettysburg Address have been removed from a Cornell University library. “Someone complained, and it was gone,” Cornell biology professor Randy ...

An historic bust of President Abraham Lincoln is back on Cornell University’s campus after it was abruptly removed earlier this year. "I believe that this is the uncanceling of the cancel culture. The ...

Uris Library is the oldest library building at Cornell University. Originally called the University Library, Uris Library opened on October 7, 1891. Built in an "Americanized" or ...

In 2009, the Association of Research Libraries urged its members to stop agreeing to nondisclosure agreements on pricing of journal packages, finding that these pacts were undercutting the ability of ...

Sixty-eight volunteers, 24 months of planning, more than 1,600 boxes, rolls and rolls of archival wrapping materials, miles of packing tape and bubble wrap, thousands of pages of crumpled newspaper, ...

Individual authors and authors’ groups around the world are suing Cornell and four other universities, alleging that the universities’ library digitization projects are an illegal infringement of ...