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June 9, 2015 by Gary Price

1. Take a Look a the Nine Projects (and Code) Shared at Conclusion of Recent ORCID Codefest (via ORCID Blog)
2. European Association of Research Libraries (LIBER) Respond to STM Statement on Text and Data Mining
3. Advice from a librarian: how to do successful altmetrics outreach (via Almetric Blog)
Guest post by IUPUI Librarian Heather Coates.

Filed under: Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, News, 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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