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VR Pop-Ups: BBC Brings Virtual Reality Experiences to Over 150 Libraries in UK
From the BBC Technology + Creativity Blog: Over the last few months, the BBC – with huge support from librarians – has brought some of our favourite virtual reality experiences to new audiences in over 150 libraries. Our research has shown us that viewers find virtual reality experiences … [Read More...]
Report: “FTC Approves Settlement with Google Over YouTube Kids Privacy Violations”
From The Washington Post: The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a settlement with Google in its investigation into YouTube for violating federal data privacy laws for children, said two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss it on record. The settlement — backed … [Read More...]
Google Releases 2019 Version of Scholar Metrics
From a Google Scholar Blog Post by Anurag Acharya: Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, we are releasing the 2019 version of Scholar Metrics. This release covers articles published in … [Read More...]
Research Article: “Roles and Jobs in the Open Research Scholarly Communications Environment: Analysing Job Descriptions to Predict Future Trends”
The article linked below was published online today by LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries. Title Roles and Jobs in the Open Research Scholarly Communications Environment: Analysing Job Descriptions to Predict Future Trends Authors Nancy Pontika The … [Read More...]
DPLA Releases Enhanced Version of Mueller Report
From the Digital Public Library of America: On May 21, DPLA announced the release of its ebook of Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election, or the Mueller Report, available for free as an EPUB file from DPLA’s website and on the Open … [Read More...]
Curricle, “a New Tool For Exploring the Curriculum” at Harvard University
From Harvard Gazette: Harvard’s Course Offerings used to take the form of thick paper catalogs, filled with numbers and descriptions of the thousands of classes available in the curriculum each semester. In 1990, the University began offering its current online catalog listing, my.harvard, … [Read More...]
Roundup (July 19, 2019)
Atypon Acquires Inera, Developer of Editorial and XML Workflow Solutions for Scholarly, Technical, and Legal Publishers eLife Introduces First Demonstration of the Open-Source Publishing Platform Libero Publisher Protecting Private Browsing in Chrome (via Official Google Blog) Technical … [Read More...]
TIME Launches New Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality App, TIME Immersive, “Landing on the Moon” is First Feature Released
From TIME: Today, TIME launches TIME Immersive, an augmented reality and virtual reality app, available on both iOS and Android devices, to showcase new AR and VR projects from TIME. The first activation featured in TIME Immersive is Landing on the Moon, which allows viewers to experience a … [Read More...]
Five Projects Receive Seed Funding From LYRASIS Catalyst Fund
From LYRASIS: The Catalyst Fund is designed to foster innovation leading to new services and programs among members and knowledge communities worldwide. This year, five programs will be seed funded for the benefit of the community at large. Four projects were chosen by participants in the LYRASIS … [Read More...]
NPR Report: “Your Local Library May Have a New Offering in Stock: A Resident Social Worker”
From All Things Considered/NPR: Libraries have always had far more on their plate than the stereotype of the silence-obsessed introvert who cares only for reordering the fiction section. [Clip] Libraries have been trying to ease this stress with training for staff or outside partnerships. Over … [Read More...]
Video Recordings From “Libraries as Research Partner in Digital Humanities” Preconference Workshop (July 8, 2019)
Video recordings of sessions from the "Libraries as Research Partner in Digital Humanities" are now available online. The event was held as a preconference (during DH2019) at KB, National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague on July 8, 2019. Direct to Video Playlist (via YouTube) Direct to … [Read More...]
Digitized Maps Online: The Library of Congress Geography & Map Division Posts June 2019 Issue of “New Maps This Month”
The latest issue of New Maps this Month (June 2019; 6 pages; PDF) from the Geography & Map Division (G&M) of the Library of Congress is available online. “New Maps This Month” provides a list (with metadata and hyperlinks) to all of the digital maps that the G&M … [Read More...]
Conference Paper: “Open Peer Review: The Current Landscape and Emerging Models” (Preprint)
The paper linked below will be presented at the 17th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics (September 2-5, 2019, Rome, Italy). Title Open Peer Review: The Current Landscape and Emerging Models Authors Dietmar Wolfram University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peiling … [Read More...]
Digital Yoknapatawpha: International Team Collaborating To Digitize Faulkner’s World
From the University of Virginia: About six years ago, John Corrigan was working on his Ph.D. about William Faulkner and visited the University of Virginia Library’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections to examine the renowned Southern writer’s manuscripts. There he met UVA English … [Read More...]
Roundup (July 18, 2019)
ALISE Announces 2019 Award Winners Argentina National Library Opens Holocaust, Anti-Semitism Section (via JTA) ARL Fellows for Digital and Inclusive Excellence Selected for 2019–2020 Ex Libris Esploro Solution Goes Live with First Development Partner, Now Live at University of Iowa FTC Looks to … [Read More...]
Update on Open Access and Academic Journal Contracts: A Presentation to University of California Board Of Regents’ Academic And Student Affairs Committee
From the University of California Office of Scholarly Communications: On July 17, 2019, Acting Provost and Vice Provost Susan Carlson, University Librarian and Chief Digital Scholarship Officer Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, and Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director Günter Waibel briefed the UC … [Read More...]
New York: Onondaga County Libraries Face Ransomware Attack
From Spectrum News: A ransomware attack is causing lingering problems for the Onondaga County Public Library and its city branches. Their computers and Wi-Fi have been down since Friday. [Clip] Although the computers, Wi-Fi and phones don't work at the central or city branch libraries, they are … [Read More...]
Open Syllabus Project 2.0 Goes Live; Syllabi From 6 Million College Classes in 79 Countries Available
From an Open Syllabus Project Blog Post Now you can explore college teaching, publishing, and intellectual traditions across 6 million classes, 4700 schools, and 79 countries. You can dive into schools and fields, look at how the adoption of texts changes over time, and compare how teaching … [Read More...]
Research Resource: Announcing the “Texas Geodata Portal”
From Tex Libris (Univ. of Texas): The Libraries finally entered the landscape of GIS last year with the hiring of Geospatial Data Coordinator Michael Shensky, and a major undertaking in his short tenure has been to spearhead the development of an interface that will facilitate discovery of the … [Read More...]
Data Repositories: “Funded Partnership Brings Dryad and Zenodo Closer”
From the Dryad and Zenodo Blogs: Researchers commonly have to make a choice about where to deposit their non-article outputs. Unfortunately, systems that are built to accommodate these objects work separately and can make the process more difficult. As a result, data, code, figures, and other … [Read More...]
