Latest Information Industry News and Resources
HathiTrust Announces Emergency Temporary Access Service
From HT: The Emergency Temporary Access Service permits special access for HathiTrust member libraries located in the U.S. that suffer an unexpected or involuntary, temporary disruption to normal operations, such as closure for a public health emergency, requiring the library to be closed to … [Read More...]
Report: “Video Conferencing Apps Surge from Coronavirus Impact”
From an AppAnnie Blog Post: ZOOM Cloud Meetings topped downloads charts globally throughout February and March, and downloads continue to see elevated downloads through the US, UK and Europe. During the week of March 15-21, ZOOM Cloud Meetings was downloaded 14x more than the weekly average … [Read More...]
Roundup (March 31, 2020)
arXiv Announces New COVID-19 Quick Search Biodiversity Heritage Library Records Now Available in WorldCat From Open Access to Open Science, PLOS Biology is Leading Change Yale Science and Social Science Library Has a New Endowment — and a New Name (via Yale News) … [Read More...]
University of California Issues Policy on Open Access for Theses and Dissertations
From the Office of Scholarly Communication, U. of California: On March 25, 2020, the University of California issued a Policy on Open Access for Theses and Dissertations. The systemwide policy, which aligns with those already in place at individual UC campuses, “requires theses or dissertations … [Read More...]
Report: “New York Attorney General Looks Into Zoom’s Privacy Practices”
More New Reports Zoom Meetings aren’t End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing (via The Intercept) Zoom Sued for Allegedly Illegally Disclosing Personal Data (1) (via Bloomberg) Hackers Take Advantage of Zoom's Popularity to Push Malware (via Bleeping Computer) From The NY … [Read More...]
cOAlition S Responds to Open Access Publishers’ Statement on Transformative Agreements
From cOAlition S Statement cOAlition S has taken good note of the position paper by five fully Open Access publishers that criticizes the low transformational potential of Transformative Agreements, while calling for prioritizing support mechanisms for native Open Access publications and … [Read More...]
Research Article (Preprint): “State of Open Access Penetration in Universities Worldwide”
The following research article (preprint) was recently shared on arXiv. Title State of Open Access Penetration in Universities Worldwide Authors Nicolas Robinson-Garcia TU Delft Rodrigo Costas Leiden University Stellenbosch University Thed N. van Leeuwen Leiden University Source via … [Read More...]
Ontario: 3D Printers From the Brock University Library Makerspace Being Used to Create Face Shields For Paramedics
From The Standard: With a huge international demand for protective equipment and a limited number of manufacturers to supply it, Niagara's paramedics are getting help from an unlikely source — Brock University's library. Brock's head of library systems and technology Jonathan Younker said the … [Read More...]
National Library of Medicine (NLM) is Beginning the Migration Process From Voyager ILS to Alma LSP from Ex Libris
From the National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin: As part of the modernization of NLM's infrastructure, we will be replacing the Voyager Integrated Library System with the Library Services Platform, Alma. Voyager was implemented at NLM in 1998 for library management operations, including … [Read More...]
Knowledge Unlatched Renews Two Successful Open Access Collections
From KU: Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the international initiative for Open Access (OA), is pleased to announce renewals of two successful Open Access collections from 2017, both of which were launched as pilot projects for three-year funding models: Language Science Press (LSP) Books and KU Select … [Read More...]
“Which Papers Cited Which Tweets? An Empirical Analysis Based on Scopus Data”
The paper linked to below has been submitted to STI 2020 (25th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators). Title Which Papers Cited Which Tweets? An Empirical Analysis Based on Scopus Data Authors Robin Haunschild Max Planck Institute for Solid State … [Read More...]
“Toronto Public Library Lends 3D Printers to Support COVID-19 Medical Efforts”
From the TPL: Toronto Public Library (TPL) is providing 10 of the library's Ultimaker 2+ 3D printers for loan to a team at Toronto General Hospital to support their efforts to produce personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline healthcare workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. A team at … [Read More...]
Research Article (Preprint): “Coronavirus on Social Media: Analyzing Misinformation in Twitter Conversations”
The following research article (preprint) was recently shared on arXiv. Title Coronavirus on Social Media: Analyzing Misinformation in Twitter Conversations Authors Karishma Sharma University of Southern California Sungyong Se University of Southern California Chuizheng Meng University of … [Read More...]
Survey of U.S. Academic Libraries Documents COVID-19 Pandemic Responses
From the University of Illinois News Service: When universities began closing their campuses and going to online classes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, academic librarians were faced with questions about how those decisions would affect libraries and whether to close their doors or … [Read More...]
Research Tools: The Land Portal Foundation Launches the Largest Global Database of Land and Property Rights Projects
From The Land Portal Foundation: ...the Land Portal Foundation is launching an all new database of land and property rights projects. The Land Portal team has been hard at work on this new endeavour for many months, which has come directly from the feedback of our users, who felt we could do better … [Read More...]
New From National Science Foundation (NSF): “Dear Colleague Letter: Open Science for Research Data”
From the National Science Foundation: March 27, 2020 Dear Colleague: Open science fuels scientific discovery and economic gain by making the products of Federally funded research more easily accessible and usable. Open science can also improve scientific rigor by directly linking the products of … [Read More...]
Statement: ARL Urges Publishers to Maximize Access to Digital Content during COVID-19 Pandemic
From the Association of Research Libraries: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) joins global library associations in urging publishers to maximize access to digital content during the emergency conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an unprecedented time for the academic enterprise, … [Read More...]
New From PlanS: “Exploring Collaborative Non-Commercial Publishing Models for Open Access: Apply to Perform a Study”
From Plan S: cOAlition S publishes today, 27 March 2020, a call for an informed study containing an analysis and overview of collaborative non-commercial (aka “Diamond”) publishing journals and platforms. The study is financially supported by Science Europe. The objective is to identify ways to … [Read More...]
Research Tools: The New York Times Releases Its Dataset of U.S. Confirmed Coronavirus Cases
From The NY Times: Today, The New York Times has made one of the most comprehensive datasets of coronavirus cases in the United States publicly available in response to requests from researchers, scientists, government officials and businesses who would like access to the data to better understand … [Read More...]
New Resource: “Tracking Report: Digital Platform Responses to Misinformation During the Pandemic”
A new tracking report from Public Knowledge: From the Website: We’ve created this tool to monitor how digital platforms are responding to misinformation related to the pandemic. We’ll be regularly updating it with new reports. [Clip] Our goal is to provide current and accurate updates in the … [Read More...]
