News Roundup

1. Be Advised: LinkedIn Makes Changes to Cookie/Tracking Policy (aka More Tracking Unless You Opt-Out and/or Delete Cookies)
Additional: Media Coverage via Social Times ||| LinkedIn Cookie Policy
In their own words:

Soon, if you are a LinkedIn member but log out of your account on a browser, LinkedIn may still continue to log your interaction with our services on that browser for up to 30 days in order to generate usage analytics for our services, which we may share in aggregate, de-identified form with our advertising customers.

Note: Other online services including Facebook and Google also set cookies that share data even when logged out of the service. 
There are a number of tools that can block/remove these and other tracking tools from your computer/device. 
2. Brill Launching Pilot Project with ScienceOpen
3. Oregon St. University Brewing Archives Marks Third Anniversary (via Corvallis Gazette-Times)
4. Arkansas Joins 15 US State Archives Using Preservica

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