News Roundup (March 26, 2018)

1. “New Tool from Sidewalk Labs Maps All of the City’s Parking Rules Down to the Foot on Each Curb” (via StateScoop)

2. The March 2018 Issue of the CDNLAO (Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania) Newsletter is Now Online.

• In this Issue:
  [Australia] Moving to Digital: Virtual Customer Engagement at the National Library of Australia
• [Indonesia] Fostering Librarian Competence through Education & Training Programs
• [Japan] The National Diet Library’s New Online Search and Request Service

3.

QR codes now available for bioRxiv papers :-)

[should useful for poster presenters to include to point readers to the preprint] https://t.co/i4zyOGGIASpic.twitter.com/wiwQakQkDW

— Richard Sever (@cshperspectives) March 24, 2018

Direct to bioRxiv QR Code Generator

4. Federal Spending Act Boosts Funding for Many Science Agencies (via Earth and Space Science News)

5. Standards: TLS 1.3 Approved: “The Internet’s Most Important Security Protocol Is Finally Moving Forward” (via CyberScoop)

6. 28 Organisations Signed the Open Letter Asking The European Parliament to Improve the Text and Data Mining (TDM) Exception to Benefit European Research and Innovation (via European Alliance for Research Excellence)