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July 28, 2026 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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ARL Explores the Loss of Physical Media Ownership in Libraries
Sally Sax, head of collection strategy and partnerships for MacOdrum Library at Carleton University, writes the following in “Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation.” for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) blog:A lack of digital ownership rights remains a critical barrier to libraries serving their missions as memory institutions. The closest libraries can get to ownership of commercial digital content is a perpetual access license (PAL), and the marketplace may be deciding that PALs are no longer viable from its perspective. In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; according to Wiley’s website, perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate, one of the largest digital content aggregators, announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections. For more information, read the blog post.
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