News Roundup (August 19, 2019)
4.1 Billion Records Exposed in Breaches in First Half of 2019 (via Threatpost)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Journal Articles Now Discoverable via Unpaywall
Bryan Vickery Named New Director of Product at Crossref
Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed In New Database (via Nature)
Japan: National Diet Library Annual Budget FY19
Note: The total 2019 budget discussed in article on 27,279,003,000 yen converts to $256 Million/USD.
LibLynx & PSI Partner on Real-Time Open Access Usage Reporting
New U.S. Census Scientific Advisory Committee Members Announced
ProQuest and EBSCO Information Services Extend Ebook Partnership to Support Customer Choice
Filed under: EBSCO, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, 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.