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April 13, 2015 by Gary Price

1. 119,250 Open Access Mathematics/Statistics Book Titles from Project Euclid Now Accessible via OpenAire Database
(via Twitter)
2. University of Missouri Libraries Seek Additional Student Fee to Help with Funding (via Missouri Public Radio)
3. University of Oregon Professors’ Letter Urges Archivist’s Reinstatement (via The Register-Guard)
4. University of Georgia: New Digital Humanities Lab Opening Later this Week ||| Program |||  Digital Arts Library
5. Company News: LexisNexis Launches LexisNexis Newsdesk, New Service is Result of LN Acquisition of Moreover

Filed under: Funding, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Roundup

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. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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