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NSF Awards $16 Million in Second Round Funding For Big Data Innovation Lab Network
From the West Big Data Innovation Hub: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is awarding a second round of funding for the four Big Data Hubs—organizations launched in 2015 to build and strengthen data science partnerships across industry, academia, nonprofits, and government. Each of the hubs … [Read More...]
Research Output: Natural Sciences: Nature Index 2019 Annual Tables Published Today
From Nature: In the Nature Index 2019 Annual Tables, released today, the United States is well ahead of China then Germany to make up the top three in the country ranking, while the top three institutions - the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harvard University and Max Planck Society - have held fast … [Read More...]
National Library of Medicine (NLM) and Medical Heritage Library Sign Three-Year Memorandum of Understanding to Expand Public Access to Collections
From NLM: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) signed a three-year memorandum of understanding with the Medical Heritage Library (MHL) to promote free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine and the human health sciences. Under the agreement, the MHL will include digitized … [Read More...]
Elsevier Announces Launch of the International Center for the Study of Research (ICSR)
From Elsevier: The International Center for the Study of Research (ICSR) will work closely with the research community to review and develop the use of qualitative and quantitative metrics of research evaluation to create a more transparent and robust approach to research assessment. The mission … [Read More...]
Librarian of Congress Names Joy Harjo the Nation’s 23rd Poet Laureate, First Native American Poet to Serve in the Position
From the Library of Congress: Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced the appointment of Joy Harjo as the nation’s 23rd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2019-2020. Harjo will take up her duties in the fall, opening the Library’s annual literary season on Sept. 19 with a reading … [Read More...]
SpringerNature Releases “The Future of Open Access Books: Findings From a Global Survey Of Academic Book Authors”
From the News Release The majority of book authors support the idea that all future scholarly books should be open access (OA). This is one of the key findings of a new white paper presented by Springer Nature at the OAI-11 conference at CERN this week. Based on the responses of 2,542 book authors … [Read More...]
Roundup (June 19, 2019)
Baker & Taylor Launches "Career Skills Training Platform" For Public Libraries Bill Proposed by Missouri Senator Josh Hawley "Demands Facebook, Twitter Be Vetted for Political Bias" (via PC Mag) Florida State University: Reserving VHS Collections @ FSU Libraries Through the Academic Libraries … [Read More...]
Yale University: Susan Gibbons Appointed Vice Provost For Collections And Scholarly Communications
From Yale University: Susan Gibbons, the Stephen F. Gates ’68 University Librarian and deputy provost for collections and scholarly communications, has been appointed Yale’s vice provost for collections and scholarly communications, President Peter Salovey announced. The appointment is … [Read More...]
Indiana University: Lilly Library’s Unique Vonnegut Collection Allows Teleplays to Take the Stage For the First Time
From Indiana University Bloomington: Bold underlining in Sharpie, scribbling in between paragraphs and tape holding together sheets of typewriter paper -- some of Kurt Vonnegut's original teleplays stored in Indiana University Bloomington's Lilly Library bear the marks of an involved writer. For … [Read More...]
Part of the Team Behind “The Parthenon of Books” Launches a Searchable Database of 125,000 Books Banned or Censored Somewhere in the World
From the University of British Columbia: When Argentinian artist Marta Minujin wanted to build a replica of the Parthenon out of banned books, UBC professor Florian Gassner was one of the first people she turned to for help. Gassner, a senior instructor in UBC’s department of Central, Eastern, … [Read More...]
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) and the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) Endorse Multiple Big Ten Academic Alliance Authored Resource Sharing Documents
From a Joint Statement: The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) and the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) have jointly endorsed several statements developed by the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) to guide the development of future library resource sharing services and … [Read More...]
Now Available: Video and Slide Presentations From the Library Publishing Forum 2019
The Library Publishing Coalition's Library Publishing Forum 2019 was held May 8-10 at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. Links to video (of some presentations) and slides are now available and can be found in the conference program. Materials from the Opening the Classroom: Publishing … [Read More...]
Digital Collection: National Library of Israel Offers Glimpse of Old Jewish Life in Europe
From the Associated Press: Israel’s National Library has digitized a rare collection of communal ledgers from long-lost Jewish communities of Europe, offering the public a chance to study an era seen as a golden age of Jewish self-governance. The documents, known as pinkasim, were used by … [Read More...]
SAGE Debuts Terminology Service with Open, Social Science Thesaurus
From SAGE Publishing: Housing over 61,000 concepts, SAGE Publishing’s new Terminology Service is a valuable tool to aid researchers in understanding and exploring key concepts. It launches with the SAGE Social Science Thesaurus, a multidisciplinary vocabulary of the most important concepts in the … [Read More...]
Library and Archives Canada Reveals Design of New Preservation Centre, Will Be First “Net-Zero Carbon” Facility Dedicated to Archival Preservation in the Americas
From Library and Archives Canada: Today, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and the Plenary Properties Gatineau (PPG) consortium, which is responsible for constructing a second preservation centre in Gatineau, Quebec, revealed the design of the building that will be located directly behind the … [Read More...]
Research Article: “Assessing the Size of the Affordability Problem in Scholarly Publishing” (Preprint)
The following preprint, posted today, has not been peer-reviewed. Title Assessing the Size of the Affordability Problem in Scholarly Publishing Authors Alexander Grossmann HTWK Leipzig (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences) Björn Brembs University of Regensburg Source PeerJ … [Read More...]
Rare George Orwell Collection Donated To University of New Mexico Libraries
From the U. of New Mexico: A longtime advocate and employee of UNM University Libraries is donating his collection of rare George Orwell books. Russ Davidson, University of New Mexico professor and curator emeritus, is both an avid collector of Orwell books and a great supporter of the College of … [Read More...]
UC Santa Cruz Joins the OA2020 Initiative
From UC Santa Cruz: In June, the University of California Santa Cruz joined its sister UC campuses in taking an important step towards the goal of making all scholarly journal literature freely available to the world by endorsing the international open access (OA) initiative, OA2020. Led by … [Read More...]
Research Article: “Accuracy of Citation Data in Web of Science and Scopus”(Preprint)
The following article (preprint) was shared on arXiv earlier today. Title Accuracy of Citation Data in Web of Science and Scopus Authors Nees Jan van Eck Leiden University Ludo Waltman Leiden University Source via arXiv Abstract We present a large-scale analysis of the accuracy of citation … [Read More...]
Roundup (June 18, 2019)
Digital Science Joins Research4Life Initiative as a Publishing Partner Elsevier Adds Gold Open Access Titles in Life and Physical Sciences with Launch of Current Research Journals Virtual Reality Video Now Available from ProQuest … [Read More...]
