September 30, 2019 by Gary Price
From SPARC: SPARC is pleased to release our 2018-2019 Connect OER Annual Report, which offers insights about OER activities across North America. This year’s report examines the current state of OER activities featuring data from 132 institutions in the U.S. and Canada. [Clip] Connect OER is SPARC’s platform to share and discover information about OER activities […]
September 30, 2019 by Gary Price
From The Daily Princetonian: The University Library recently opened a new exhibition in the Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery [an online version is available], titled “Gutenberg & After: Europe’s First Printers 1450–1470.” Curated by Scheide Librarian Paul Needham and Curator of Rare Books Eric White, it is the first exhibition to focus on this early […]
September 30, 2019 by Gary Price
The following statement was approved by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Board of Directors on September 27, 2019: The Libraries of the University of California (UC) are seeking transformative agreements with publishers such that access to the research of UC faculty is open to all, not limited to those who can afford it. In […]
September 30, 2019 by Gary Price
The following report was written by: Melissa Blankstein Ithaka S+R Christine Wolff-Eisenberg Ithaka S+R Braddlee Dean of Learning and Technology Resources and Professor for the Annandale Campus, Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) From the Report: The Community College Libraries and Academic Support for Student Success (CCLASSS) project examines student success from the perspective of students […]
September 30, 2019 by Gary Price
From The Boston Globe: With a $650,00 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Boston Research Center will work with the Boston Public Library to unearth that history and make it available to everyone. In the coming months, the center plans to hold informal forums at library branches to show what it has already […]
September 30, 2019 by Gary Price
From Cold Spring Harbor Labs: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) today announced a new pilot project—Transparent Review in Preprints (TRiP)—that enables journals and peer review services to post peer reviews of submitted manuscripts on CSHL’s preprint server bioRxiv. [Clip] The project is powered by the web annotation tool Hypothesis and will allow participating organizations to […]
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September 30, 2019 by Gary Price
From the World Economic Forum: Machine learning analyzed 3.5 million books to find that adjectives ascribed to women tend to describe physical appearance, whereas words that refer to behavior go to men. “Beautiful” and “sexy” are two of the adjectives most frequently used to describe women. Commonly used descriptors for men include righteous, rational, and […]
September 30, 2019 by Gary Price
From the RoRI Launch Announcement: We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) – an international consortium of research funders, academic institutions, and technologists working to champion the latest approaches to research on research. Co-founded by the Wellcome Trust, the universities of Sheffield and Leiden, and Digital Science, the RoRI […]
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September 30, 2019 by Gary Price
Amazon Bolsters Alexa Privacy After User Trust Takes a Hit (via CNET) California Digital Library Posts Rosemont Shared Print Alliance Update De Gruyter Expands, Commits to US Growth Google Reportedly Under Antitrust Scrutiny For New Internet Encryption Protocol (via CNET) IEEE Announces Call for Papers for New Open Access Journals One Million Pages on the […]
September 29, 2019 by Gary Price
The paper linked below was written by Brian Lavoie, OCLC Research. From OCLC: In this position paper, Lavoie traces the contours of the US and Canadian collective print book collection—the collective print book holdings of all libraries in the US and Canada whose collections are registered in WorldCat, the world’s largest shared registry of library […]