News Roundup
UCL Press [University College London] Launches Open Access Megajournal
UPDATED Jan. 23 Slides From UCL Press Megajournal Town Hall (Held on Jan. 16, 2018)
2. Update: Microsoft Academic Now Has Metadata (Often Including Links to Full Text) For About 170.8 Million Papers by Nearly 209 Million Authors & New MSFT Academic Homepage
Note: Kudos to MSFT on the transparency.
3. Library of Congress Posts Advisory Re: Possible Federal Government Shutdown
4. Stephen King ‘Horrified’ by Loss of His Manuscripts in Bangor, Maine Bookstore Flooding (via Bangor Daily News) & Original Stephen King Manuscripts Among Items Ruined By Downtown Water Main Break (via Bangor Daily News)
5. De Gruyter Reaches 1000th Open Access Book Milestone
6. Beyond the DMCA: How Google Leverages Notice and Takedown at Scale (via ABA’s “Landslide”; vol. 10 No. 2)
Hat Tip: Torrent Freak
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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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