Librarians versus the world

Here at the Research Whisperer, we love librarians. They are smart, dedicated people who want to help you with your research. They are often keen on making the world a better place, too. They don’t get enough recognition for all that they do. They are also, in our experience, unfailingly polite. So, it came as a bit of a shock to discover that the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL) had made demands of Elsevier, the ‘Dutch East India Company’ of the research world, and are not..