News Roundup (June 11, 2018)
1. In the UK: Audiobook Downloads Rose 22% Last Year (via The Bookseller) ||| Direct to LoveAudio Week Website ||| In the U.S: Association of American Publishers (AAP) Releases 2017 Publisher Revenue Data; Audiobooks Remain Fastest Growing Format For Fifth Consecutive Year
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Coming soon: @AfricArxiv a preprint service doing way more than just preprints “We are building the digital repository for African scientists to share all their research outputs, including preprints, postprints, code and data.” Follow them! #openscience#asapbio@johavepic.twitter.com/zxGzQkzlbV
— Brian Nosek (@BrianNosek) June 10, 2018
3. What FTC Enforcement Actions Teach Us About the Makings of Reasonable Privacy and Data Security Practices: A Follow-Up Study (via The Privacy Advisor)
4. North American Universities Increasingly Cancel Publisher Packages (via The Scientist)
5. OpenEdition and Knowledge Unlatched Sign Partnership to Develop Open Access Scientific Publishing in French
6. New Grateful Dead Archive Exhibit Opens at McHenry Library/UC Santa Cruz
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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.