News Roundup (July 2, 2018)
1. Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI) and Elsevier Announce Extension of Subscription Agreement and Launch Open Access Pilot
UPDATED August 2, 2018 with Official Elsevier/CRUI Announcement
2. Knowledge Unlatched Books Now Discoverable Within Paperhive Search
3. Frontiers Forms Open Access Publishing Agreements with Several Swedish Universities
4. Facebook Bug Randomly Unblocked Some Users From People’s Block Lists, 800,000 Users Affected (via The Verge) ||| Facebooks Official Blog Post
Note: Another Bug Reported a Month Ago: Facebook Bug Made Up To 14 Million Users’ Posts Public For Days (via Wired)
5. Program for Workshop on Open Citations Released
6. Cambridge University Press Launches Textbooks on Cambridge Core Platform
Filed under: Elsevier, Frontiers, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing, 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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