Tuesday News Roundup
1. CHORUS Signs MOU with Elsevier For Use of Scopus Data
Note: In a July 2017 post, Elsevier said they were providing CHORUS with free access to Scopus data.
2. SAGE Publishing Announces Textbook Rental Partnership with CHEGG
3. As Expected: Twitter is Doubling Number of Characters in a Tweet Character For All Users, Rollout Underway (via Twitter Blog)
Includes interesting data/results from 280 character testing period.
4. Roundup: OCLC Partners with Libraries on Four Recently Awarded IMLS Grants
3. U.S. Government: Metadata Requirements for Permanent Electronic Records in the Cloud (via NARA)
4. Announcing Health Research Alliance (HRA) – A Different Kind of ORCID Consortium
5. New York Public Library Gives Away $1 Million Worth of American Girl Books
Filed under: Data Files, Elsevier, Funding, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Publishing, 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. 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.
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