News Briefs: Items from CHORUS, PeerJ, ExLibris, and Follett
1. Altmetric Begins Utilizing Wikipedia as Source For Citations (English Language Wikipedia Only)
2. CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States) Announces Four New Members: Science (AAAS), PNAS, American Diabetes Association, and AAP-PSP
- Science/AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
- PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
- AAP/PSP: Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of Association of American Publishers
3. PeerJ Launches New Open Access Computer Science Journal
4. Genealogy: MyHeritage Adds 900 Million Records to Global Digital Archive
5.Five Partners Join Ex Libris in Developing Online Reading-List Solution from ExLibris
6. Follett Invests in Vocabulary.com
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.