"Inevitable" according to a panel at the membership meeting of the Association of Research Libraries. The United States is far behind many other countries in its open access principles and libraries need to help scholars overcome their fears about peer review and copyright issues. For more read The Chronicle of Higher Education.

The largest literary festival of the West Coast is happening in San Francisco through October 17. Among the numerous events, four of Stanford's scholars discussed "The Value of the Essay in the 21st Century." Undeniably, the term itself is undergoing transformation, with photographic, musical, documentary and audio essays redefining the traditional essay.

Hear the discussion of Stanford professors Andrea Lunsford, Dan Edelstein, Nicholas Jenkins and Robert Harrison.

Learn about other captivating Litquake events such as original short fiction, a night of poetry, film screenings, staged theater readings, panel discussions, workshops for writers and more.

Refworks announced today that any current or past students of universities that subscribe to Refworks will have perpetual access as long as that institution continues to subscribe. Stanford is a subscriber so if you are interested in a web based bibliographic management system that allows you to export citations from a database or Socrates, create a bibliography, and format in-text citations, see our Refworks tutorials or step-by-step handouts on our Bibliographic Management Software page.