June 30, 2021 by Gary Price
From the University of Kentucky: The Sounding Spirit Digital Library team, which includes the University of Kentucky Libraries and the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music, as well as archival partners from five other institutions across the United States, has been awarded a third grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to […]
June 30, 2021 by Gary Price
The article linked below was published today by College & Research Libraries. Title MeToo in the Academic Library: A Quantitative Measurement of the Prevalence of Sexual Harassment in Academic Libraries Authors Candice Benjes-Small William & Mary Libraries Jennifer Knievel University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Jennifer Resor-Whicker Radford University Allison Wisecup Radford University Joanna Hunter Radford […]
June 30, 2021 by Gary Price
From the OAPEN Foundation: In 2020, the OAPEN Foundation celebrated its 10 year anniversary as an open infrastructure service for open access (OA) books, providing services to publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation. The mission of OAPEN to increase discoverability of OA books and […]
June 30, 2021 by Gary Price
From a Letter to U.S. House and U.S Senate Leadership (via INCOMPAS): We urge Congress to provide full funding to universally build networks that will deliver capacity that will meet local needs for decades and to ensure rigorous scrutiny of recipients of federal dollars so that the program achieves the legislation’s future-proof goals. It is […]
June 30, 2021 by Gary Price
Archives: “Senate Dear Colleague Letter Supporting NARA/NHPRC Garners 19 Signatories” (via Society of American Archivists) Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Joins Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications Heidi Fraser-Krauss announced as New Leader of Jisc Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) 2021-2024 Strategic Plan Now Available Maher Calls (Again) for Copyright Exceptions for Archives […]
June 29, 2021 by Gary Price
From the Cambridge Core Blog: In books, the most established model for funding publication of Open Access (OA) titles is still the gold model, in which an author and/or a funder pays an upfront fee known as a Book Processing Charge (BPC). Open publication means the title is freely available for anyone with an internet […]
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June 29, 2021 by Gary Price
From the American Library Association (via YouTube): If you love libraries, you are in great company. This week, former President Barack Obama spoke to the American Library Association about his recent book “A Promised Land.” He also had a few things to say about libraries and librarians. Spoiler alert: he’s a fan. Also, new From […]
June 29, 2021 by Gary Price
From The Washington Post Editorial Board: One of the country’s oldest cultural institutions is now writing the book on how to adapt to a brave new world. Only a few years after being labeled a digital laggard, the Library of Congress is bringing its hundreds of millions of documents’ worth of history to citizens across […]
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June 29, 2021 by Gary Price
From MIT: MIT and Harvard University have announced a major transition for edX, the nonprofit organization they launched in 2012 to provide an open online platform for university courses: edX’s assets are to be acquired by the publicly-traded education technology company 2U, and reorganized as a public benefit company under the 2U umbrella. [Clip] The […]
June 29, 2021 by Gary Price
Four Libraries Share EBSCO Information Services’ 2021 EBSCO Solar Grant Open Library Tags Explained—for Readers Seeking Buried Treasure (via Open Library Blog) ResearchGate Awarded U.S. Patent (via USPTO)