Friday Roundup
1. Baltimore Library Project Celebrates 14th New Library in Baltimore City Public Schools
2. VIDEO: SSRN Announces Launch of Women’s & Gender Studies Research Network (WGSRN) ||| Direct to WGSRN
3. Ubiquity Press to Pilot Open Source Repository Services
4. Identifiers: ORCID Releases 2017 Public Data File Now Available
The data file is a snapshot of all information on ORCID records as of October 23, 2017, that has a visibility setting of Everyone.
This year’s data file includes publicly available information on close to four million ORCID records, including:
- 22m+ works
- 290k+ awards
- 130k+ peer review items
- 1.7m+ education affiliations
- 1.4m+ employment affiliations
- 428k+ other names
- 758k+ person identifiers
- 500k+ researcher URLs
- ~50k email addresses
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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. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.