News Roundup (April 4, 2018)
1. Artificial Intelligence Hypothesis Validation Platform Sci.ai Awarded Digital Science Catalyst Grant
2. Mozilla Foundations Announces $280,000 for Creative Gigabit Projects Across the U.S.
3. Wiley and Lumina Datamatics Increase the Discoverability of Millions of Images from Wiley Online Library
4. ProQuest is One of Three Companies Selected as Part of California’s New Statewide Digital Educational Resources Program
5. New From JSTOR: Add Notes and Descriptions to Your Lists on My JSTOR
6.Facebook Posts Draft of a “Clearer” Terms of Service and Data Policy
7. ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee Begins Process of Revising 9th Ed. of the Intellectual Freedom Manual (via Knowledge Quest/AASL)
8. Google Announces Plan to Shut Down the Goo.gl URL Shortener
9. Three Not-for-Frofit Publishers (EMBO Press, Rockefeller University Press and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Launch New Research Journal “Life Science Alliance”
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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.
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