October 31, 2020 by Gary Price
From the U.S. Geological Survey: The U.S. Geological Survey announced Friday the completion of a new mobile tool that provides real-time information on water levels, weather and flood forecasts all in one place on a computer, smartphone or other mobile device. The new USGS National Water Dashboard, or NWD, provides critical information to decision-makers, emergency […]
October 31, 2020 by Gary Price
From Penn St. University: Fake news detectors, which have been deployed by social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to add warnings to misleading posts, have traditionally flagged online articles as false based on the story’s headline or content. However, recent approaches have considered other signals, such as network features and user engagements, in addition to the story’s content to boost their […]
October 30, 2020 by Gary Price
From the Cornell University Library: When companies go toe to toe with labor unions, they call people like Leonard C. Scott, a former human resource and labor relations executive who also served as a consultant specializing in fighting unions and preventing them from forming in the first place. Cornell University Library’s Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation […]
October 30, 2020 by Gary Price
UPDATE November 10, 2020 Interviews on Implementing Effective Data Practices, Part III: Getting Down into the Details UPDATE: November 4, 2020: Interviews on Implementing Effective Data Practices, Part II: Conference Goals –End Updates– From the Association of Research Libraries (ARL): In preparation for the December 2019 invitational conference, “Implementing Effective Data Practices,” hosted by the […]
October 30, 2020 by Gary Price
From the Associated Press: A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts… Direct to Full Text: Not Real News Roundup See Also: More […]
October 30, 2020 by Gary Price
The following preprint was posted today (October 30, 2020) on bioRxiv. Title Assessment of Transparency Indicators Across the Biomedical Literature: How Open is Open? Authors Stylianos Serghiou Google Despina G Contopoulos-Ioannidis Stanford University Kevin W Boyack Sci-Tech Strategies Nico Riede Berlin Insitute of Health Joshua David Wallach Yale School of Public Health John P. A. […]
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October 30, 2020 by Gary Price
Democratizing Data Reports Released by EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (via Environmental Data & Governance Initiative) How Wikipedia is Preparing For The 2020 U.S. Election (via Down the Rabbit Hole) Wiley’s International Journal of Quantum Chemistry is First Scholarly Publication to Feature Atypon’s Interactive Figures Technology
October 30, 2020 by Gary Price
From SPARC Europe: We see a diverse, interconnected, open, professional and viable, OS infrastructure ecosystem in Europe on solid ground; one that is worth investing in. At the same time, this ecosystem — still developing — faces a range of issues that challenge its path to a more open and sustainable future.” This is a […]
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October 29, 2020 by Gary Price
From DataCite: DataCite and the FREYA project partners are proud to announce the official launch of DataCite Commons today. DataCite Commons is the web interface to explore the PID Graph, formed by the publications, datasets, research software, and other research outputs generated by researchers working at research institutions and supported by grant funding (???). The […]
October 29, 2020 by Gary Price
From the JLOE (via Illinois Open Publishing Network) Web Site: The Journal of Library Outreach & Engagement (JLOE) is the premier peer-reviewed, open access interdisciplinary journal to advance library outreach and engagement. JLOE provides a platform to disseminate original research that examines public and community engagement initiatives and stimulates a forum to discuss the methodological […]