MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2021
From LC: Created by artist and 2021 Innovator in Residence Courtney McClellan, Speculative Annotation is an open-source dynamic web application and public art project. The app presents a unique mini collection of free-to-use items from the Library for students, teachers and learners to annotate through captions, drawings and other types of mark-making. As a special […]
From SPARC California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law an unprecedented $115 million investment in the expansion of Zero Textbook Cost degrees and open educational resources at the state’s community colleges. Building on a successful pilot that concluded in 2019, the funding will support the development of degree and certificate pathways that students can complete […]
UPDATE: Additional Details About the Bill Along with the Full Text of the Legislation are Now Available via Rep. Castor’s Office From The Washington Post: Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) plans to introduce a bill Thursday morning that would update the decades-old law governing children’s privacy online, an effort bolstered by increased attention on the issue […]
July/August 2021 Issue of Archival Outlook Published by the Society of American Archivists (SAA) is Now Available Online University of Miami: Libraries Shed Light on Turmoil in Cuba, Haiti VIVO Announces Dragan Ivanović as Technical Lead (via LYRASIS)
Cleveland, Ohio: Nation’s Oldest African American Producing Theatre and Cultural Arts Center is Donating Archives to Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|From The Daily, Case Western Reserve University: The Karamu House guest book alone is extraordinary, with such signatories as Martin Luther King Jr., Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, musicians from Duke Ellington’s Orchestra and visitors from across the globe. The theatre’s historic register—photographs, drawings, programs, posters and the collected letters of Karamu alumnus and playwright […]
Scientific Publishing Organizations and All 17 U.S. National Laboratories Partner on Transgender-Inclusive Name-Change Process for Published Papers
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Jobs, Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Publishing, Springer Nature
|From the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Complete News Release): All seventeen U.S. national laboratories and many prominent publishers, journals, and other organizations in scientific publishing announced today the beginning of a partnership to support name change requests from researchers on past published papers. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is coordinating the effort. This agreement […]
New Research Resource: “Curious About Utah’s Frontier Women? Browse BYU’s New Database of Women’s Newspaper Ads”
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|From Brigham Young University: A single bottle of tonic to cure diabetes, cancer, ulcers and dizziness. Raisins and currants for Christmas mince meat pies. Midwifery courses taught by a certified female doctor, $30 a term. A souvenir stone from the Hill Cumorah, “guaranteed genuine,” mailed from New York for 25 cents. This list represents just […]
Roundup (July 28, 2021)
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Roundup
|FCC Enrolls Over 4 Million Households in Emergency Broadband Benefit Program and Continues with Additional Program Outreach (via FCC) Jisc to Manage Central Licensing and Invoicing for Direct to Open From the MIT Press (via MIT Press) Maryland Libraries Work with Publishers to Set “Reasonable Terms” (via MD Library Association) New Zealand: Controlled Digital Lending […]
Journal Article: “Data Sharing Practices and Data Availability Upon Request Differ Across Scientific Disciplines”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access
|The following article was published today by Scientific Data. Title Data Sharing Practices and Data Availability Upon Request Differ Across Scientific Disciplines Authors Leho Tedersoo Estonian Young Academy of Sciences Rainer Küngas Ester Oras Kajar Köster Helen Eenmaa Äli Leijen Margus Pedaste Marju Raju Anastasiya Astapova Heli Lukner Karin Kogermann Tuul Sepp Source Scientific Data […]
Note: This is the second Internet Archive ILL-related announcement in three months. On April 27th announced a pilot project with the RapidILL. From an IA Blog Post by Brewster Kahle: The Internet Archive is pleased to announce it has joined the The Information Delivery Services (IDS) Project, a mutually supportive resource-sharing cooperative whose 120 members […]