By Carl Straumsheim, for Inside Higher Ed. Library directors at 66 liberal arts colleges in the US have called for academic libraries to reject licensing agreements with publishers that impose restrictions on how ebooks can be accessed and shared. In a statement released by the Oberlin Group, a consortium of 80 liberal arts college libraries, the directors point to the “ecosystem of sharing” that academic libraries at small colleges depend on to plug gaps in the resources they offer - services such as interlibrary loans, for example. More...

By Chris Parr. The incoming head of the largest massive open online course provider has pledged to improve the way it communicates with its university partners. Richard Levin, who was president of Yale University between 1993 and 2013, will become chief executive of Coursera in the middle of next month. More...