News Roundup
1. The Proper Serious Work of Preserving Digital Comics (via UK Web Archive Blog/The British Library)
2. Court Order Blocks Access to the Internet Archive in India (via BBC)
UPDATE: Statement and Questions Regarding an Indian Court’s Order to Block Archive.org (via Internet Archive)
3. Web of Science: Annette Thomas to Lead Clarivate Analytics Scientific and Academic Research Business
4. Elsevier Retracts Entire Issue After Mistakenly Publishing It Online (via Retraction Watch)
5. From Elsevier to OUP: Oxford University Press Appoints David Clark Managing Director of Academic Division (via The Bookseller)
6. Connecticut State Library Receives Grant for Phase 3 of Newspaper Digitization (via CSL)
7. Open Access: Max Planck Digital Library Reports 2016 Expenditures For Various Publishers
8. A Major Standardization of Reference and Grammatical Styles For American Geophysical Union (AGU) Journals and Books
9. Gartner End-User Survey Finds Three-Quarters of Respondents Are Willing to Pay More for 5G
10. Germany Finally Has an Open Data Law (via Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland)
11. Amazon Kindle Leads Among E-Readers in Poland (via Telecompaper)
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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.