News Roundup
1. Digital Science to Adopt Relative Citation Ratio Developed at NIH
Digital Science products/services include Altmetric, Figshare, and ReadCube
2. The National Archives (NARA) Welcomes Millionth Visitor in FY 2016
3. PEN America/Jean Stein To Honor Groundbreaking Literature With New Awards
“$75,000 Prize to be Awarded to a Single Writer for Originality and Impact” & “$10,000 Grant for a Literary Oral History Project”
4. Facebook Messenger Now Has Over 1 Billion Monthly Active Users (via Facebook) & Facebook Now Has 4 Products That More Than 1 Billion People Use Every Month (via Business Insider)
5. Google, Microsoft can’t be forced to censor “torrent” searches (via ars technica)
Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Funding, News, Patrons and Users, 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.
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