News From the Field

Of Professional Interest

Ш OCLC and the Partnership for Shared Book Collections produced Stewarding the Collective Collection: An Analysis of Print Retention Data in the US and Canada, a data analysis of monograph print retentions registered in WorldCat. This research examines the impact of shared print during the past decade and helps identify priorities for moving forward. The report is available at https://www.oclc.org/content/ dam/research/publications/2024/ stewarding-collective-collection/ stewarding-the-collective-collectionprint-retention-data.pdf.

Ш Michigan's Fund to Mission program continues to make approximately 60 frontlist University of Michigan Press scholarly ebooks a year immediately free to read and reuse worldwide. The 2024 open access collection is now complete. On average, each OA book is used 10,000 times. Through collaboration with its parent library and non-profit incubator Lyrasis, the Fund to Mission open access monograph model facilitates the conversion of 75 percent of the 80 monographs UMP publishes annually to open access without requiring inequitable author payments.

Ш OCLC continues to make significant advances in integrating linked data into cataloging and metadata workflows. One way is by enriching WorldCat bibliographic records with WorldCat Entities URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers)-work that has been ongoing since December 2023. To date, OCLC has added more than 400 million WorldCat Entities URIs to bibliographic records for Persons, Places, Events, and Works, and began adding URIs for organizations as $1 links in 110, 610 and 710 bibliographic fields in October 2024.

Ш The Core Metadata Standards Committee has developed a Metadata Schema Assessment Framework to help information professionals evaluate metadata schemas in order to select one that would best fit the needs of a given project. The first official version is now available at https://alair.ala.org/ bitstreams/c0612fb3-b391-4015-bcdf18bf1c7565bd/download. Feedback can be given by submitting comments and questions through a Google form.

Publishers and Vendors

Ш EBSCO Information Services has launched Mosaic by GOBI Library Solutions. This new book ordering platform streamlines and modernizes the book acquisition process. Mosaic delivers a new solution that offers a modern and accessible user interface designed for efficiency and ease of use. More information at www.ebsco.com/ products/mosaic.