News Roundup
1. NISO Receives Two Grants to Develop Consensus Framework on Privacy of Research Data Sets
- Grants from Sloan and Mellon Foundations.
- Group will be Co-chaired by Todd Carpenter and Bonnie Tijerina.
- Additional info here.
- Direct to Working Group Proposal Statement (NISO/Research Data Alliance)
2. Access to Government Research: Highwire Press Joins CHORUS
3. Authors Guild Sends Open Letter to Publishers Calling For “Real Change for Book Contracts”
4. Adam Matthew to Include Two Digital Collections in New Egyptian Knowledge Bank
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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.