News Roundup (December 7, 2017)
1. Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Develops Plug-In Designed to Port/Preserve bepress Content to Open Journal System (OJS) Platform
2. Students at Washington University in St. Louis Petition Against Decision to Move Physics Library (via Student Union)
3. Texas Prisons Ban Over 10,000 Books. An Israeli Diplomat Wants to Know Why Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” is Allowed (via Texas Tribune) ||| Direct to List of Banned Books (via Dallas Morning News)
4. Google Adds New Features to Transparency Report Including Expanded National Security Letters Section
5. Institutional Repositories: Virginia Commonwealth University Scholars Compass Hits 1 Million Downloads Mark in Fall Semester + Top 10 Most Downloaded Items
6. New Entries Released by the National Declassification Center
7. PubFactory Integrates Hypothesis Annotation for Publishers
Filed under: Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Open Access, 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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