December 31, 2019 by Gary Price
The article linked to below was recently published by the Journal of eScience Librarianship. Title Peer Review of Research Data Submissions to ScholarsArchive@OSU: How Can We Improve the Curation of Research Datasets to Enhance Reusability? Authors Clara LlebotaOregon State University Steven Van TuylAcademic Data Science Alliance Source Journal of eScience LibrarianshipVolume 8, Issue 2 (2019)DOI: […]
December 31, 2019 by Gary Price
From the AP: Sonny Mehta, the urbane and astute head of Alfred A. Knopf who guided one of the book world’s most esteemed imprints to new heights through a blend of prize-winning literature by Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy among others and blockbusters such as “Fifty Shades of Grey” and “The Girl With the Dragon […]
December 31, 2019 by Gary Price
From Mozilla: Here’s how we are bringing CCPA [California Consumer Privacy Act] to life for [all] Firefox users. [Clip] When Europe passed its GDPR privacy law we made sure that all users, whether located in the EU or not, were afforded the same rights under the law. As a company that believes privacy is fundamental […]
December 30, 2019 by Gary Price
The article linked below was recently published by Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) Title Automated Storage & Retrieval System: From Storage to Service Authors Justin Kovalcik California State University, Northridge Mike Villalobos California State University, Northridge Source Information Technology and Libraries DOI: 10.6017/ital.v38i4.11273 Abstract The California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Oviatt Library was the first […]
December 30, 2019 by Gary Price
From Princeton University: On Jan. 2, 2020, a collection of 1,131 letters from Nobel laureate and renowned writer Thomas Stearns Eliot, better known as T.S. Eliot, to his lifelong friend Emily Hale will open for research at Princeton University Library. Dating from 1930 to 1957, the letters are the largest single series of Eliot’s correspondence and among […]
December 30, 2019 by Gary Price
New from the International Federation of Library Associations. Direct to Full Text Volume 45, No. 4 (December 2019) Articles in this Issue Can journals overcome bias and make the peer review process more inclusive? Steven W. Witt Articles Predatory publishing and the Ghana experience: A call to action for information professionals Kodjo Atiso, Jenna Kammer […]
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December 30, 2019 by Gary Price
From The Chicago Maroon: The University of Chicago must recognize student library workers’ collective bargaining efforts, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals said in a decision last week, which denied the University’s assertion that student workers are “temporary workers” and should therefore be excluded from collective bargaining rights. The case was taken to the Seventh […]
December 30, 2019 by Gary Price
UPDATED January 23, 2020: On Public Domain (January 1, 2020) “HathiTrust Opened More Than 45,000 Digital Volumes For Full View Reading Access For U.S. Users…13,500 of these Volumes Were Digitized From University of California Libraries’ Collections” (via CDLNews) –End Update– From the Center for the Study of the Public Domain/Duke University Law School: On January […]
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December 29, 2019 by Gary Price
From a MIT Technology Review by Cecilia Aragon/U. of Washington: In the past 20 years, over 60 billion words of fan fiction have been written and posted on Fanfiction.net, the world’s largest repository. The site’s 10 million members have collectively authored a corpus about three-quarters the size of the entirety of published English-language fiction. This outpouring […]
December 29, 2019 by Gary Price
The following full-text article was recently published by JASIST (Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology). Title The Citation Advantage of Promoted Articles in a Cross‐Publisher Distribution Platform: A 12‐Month Randomized Controlled Trial Authors Paul Kudlow MD, PhD University of Toronto TrendMD Devin Bissky Dziadyk BSc TrendMD Alan Rutledge BSc TrendMD Aviv Shachak […]