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New Digital Reggae Film Archive to be Established at the National Library of Jamaica
From the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Jamaica: The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has announced that the Reggae Films In The Park event launched preparations to establish the new digital Reggae Film Archive at the … [Read More...]
National Archives (NARA) Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Obama Foundation re: Digitization of Obama Presidential Records
From a Blog Post by David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States: This week, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Barack Obama Foundation agreed on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding the plan to digitize all of the unclassified textual Presidential records … [Read More...]
National Diet Library (National Library of Japan) Begins Providing Access to Selected English Language Articles From the Library’s Research and Legislative Reference Bureau
From the National Diet Library: The Research and Legislative Reference Bureau (RLRB) of the National Diet Library publishes research papers on national policy issues in Japan. We are pleased to announce that selected articles from the RLRB’s publications are now available in English on our … [Read More...]
Weather on Mars: A Daily Weather Report From NASA’s InSight Lander
From the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: No matter how cold your winter has been, it's probably not as chilly as Mars. Check for yourself: Starting today, the public can get a daily weather report from NASA's InSight lander. This public tool includes stats on temperature, wind and air pressure recorded … [Read More...]
Report: “India’s Chief Science Adviser: Cost of Academic Publishing is ‘Untenable'”
From Science Business: India’s annual multi-million-euro outlay on scientific publishing is a bad deal for the country, says Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, principal scientific adviser to the government. “We have to take a clear position – the current situation is untenable and costly,” … [Read More...]
New York Times Access Now Available for Free From All California Public Libraries (NYT/State Library of California Partnership)
From The NY Times: California’s 23 million library card holders in the state may access NYTimes.com by visiting nytimes.com/register on a library computer, or on their own device while connected to the library’s Wi-Fi. Library card holders can access nytimes.com from anywhere through their … [Read More...]
National Library of Medicine and Wellcome Complete Partnership to Provide Free Access to Hundreds of Years of Medical Research, Over 650,000 Digitized Pages, Tens of Thousands of Individual Articles Available
From the National Library of Medicine: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and Wellcome have completed their partnership to make thousands of full back issues of historically-significant biomedical journals freely available through the National Institutes of Health life sciences … [Read More...]
Benetech Adds More State Library Partners to Bring Bookshare to Patrons with Reading Barriers
From Benetech: Libraries in Alabama, Massachusetts, and Florida join five other state libraries to offer Bookshare’s 690,000 accessible ebooks to expand reading opportunities. In December, 2015, New York Public Library expanded its services to offer Bookshare’s library of accessible ebooks to … [Read More...]
Knight Foundation Focuses on Building The Future of Local News in $300 Million, Five-Year Commitment
From The Knight Foundation (Full Text): The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced that it would double its investment in strengthening journalism to $300 million over five years, with a focus on building the future of local news and information, which are essential for democracy to … [Read More...]
Report: Library of Congress Music Division FY 2018 Highlights
The Music OCLC Users Group Annual Meeting and the Music Library Association Annual Meeting take place this week in St. Louis. The Music Division of the Library of Congress has prepared a review (14 pages; PDF) of FY 2018 of division highlights. The document is organized into the following … [Read More...]
Germany: Full Text of “Publish&Read” Contract Signed Jan. 15, 2019 Between Project Deal (Germany) and Wiley
From Project Deal: The forward-looking “Publish & Read" (signed Jan. 15, 2019) model at the basis of the agreement delivers the benefits of open access to authors and advances the principles of open science by enabling institutions and researchers alike to make the most of the opportunities … [Read More...]
Report: “Even Years Later, Twitter Doesn’t Delete Your Direct Messages”
From TechCrunch: Twitter retains direct messages for years, including messages you and others have deleted, but also data sent to and from accounts that have been deactivated and suspended, according to security researcher Karan Saini. [Clip] Saini says this is a “functional bug” rather than a … [Read More...]
Report: Major Medical Journals Don’t Follow Their Own Rules for Reporting Results From Clinical Trials
From Science: It’s a well-known problem with clinical trials: Researchers start out saying they will look for a particular outcome—heart attacks, for example—but then report something else when they publish their results. That practice can make a drug or treatment look like it’s safer or … [Read More...]
Roundup (February 18, 2019)
As Scholars Are Driven to Less Prestigious Journals, New Measures of Quality Emerge (COHE) Google to Let You Link Directly to a Word or Phrase in Chrome (via BleepingComputer) Iron Mountain Renews Support for Papers of Abraham Lincoln Project, Preserving and Protecting the Writings and Legacy of … [Read More...]
New Data Visualization Tool Shows Carbon Footprint of Everyday Products
From the Earth Institute, Columbia University: A Columbia researcher affiliated with the Data Science Institute and the Earth Institute has created a data-visualization tool that shows the carbon footprints of hundreds of consumer products. The tool makes it easy for everyone to … [Read More...]
Roundup (February 17, 2019)
European Project Tackles The Machine Translation of News in Languages With Little Online Presence Study Uses Neural Networks to Define Dada (via Cornell) New App Reveals The Hidden Landscapes Within Georgia O’Keeffe’s Paintings (via Science) Scientists Work to Save ‘Fragile’ Digital Media … [Read More...]
Pilot Project: Internet Archive Helps Make Books Accessible For Students with Disabilities
From an Internet Archive Blog Post: The Internet Archive will be part of a team that is working to address a key challenge for students with disabilities: getting books in accessible formats. This participation aligns with an existing Internet Archive program to make materials available and … [Read More...]
Journal Article: “Comparing the Information Needs and Experiences of Undergraduate Students and Practicing Engineers”
The following article appears in The Journal of Academic Librarianship. The full text is available (free) online as of Feb. 16, 2019. Title Comparing the Information Needs and Experiences of Undergraduate Students and Practicing Engineers Authors Margaret Phillips Purdue … [Read More...]
Independent Libraries: Boston Athenaeum Plans Big Expansion
From The Boston Globe: The Boston Athenaeum announced Thursday that it had signed a long-term lease at neighboring 14 Beacon St. that will allow the independent library to expand by almost 20,000 square feet. [Clip] News of the expansion comes a week after Athenaeum director Elizabeth … [Read More...]
Reference: GlobaLex Releases Updated Version of “Researching Canadian Law” Guide
What is GlobaLex? GlobaLex is an electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research. Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law. The guides and articles published are written by scholars well known in their respective fields and are … [Read More...]
