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August 5, 2016 by Gary Price

News Roundup

August 5, 2016 by Gary Price

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

Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, News, Roundup

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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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