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Roundup (January 16, 2019)

January 16, 2020 by Gary Price

American Chemical Society Announces The Launch of JACS Au, a New Fully Open Access Journal

ARL Launches Venture Fund to Support Research and Development in Member Libraries—Proposals Due February 28

Augmented Reality: Startup Mojo Vision Unveils Working Prototypes of AR Contact Lense (via IEEE Spectrum)

Coherent Digital Announces Policy Commons to Launch in June 2020

Copyright Alliance Welcomes Adobe, News Corp, ASCRL and SONA as its Newest Members

Europe PMC: A Year in Review

Federal Panel Recommends Closure And Sale of Seattle National Archives Facility (via MYNorthwest.com)

Is the Macmillan Boycott Working? (via Readers First)

LYRASIS Shares 2020 Research Initiatives

NIST Releases Version 1.0 of Privacy Framework

Publisher Springer Nature Revives IPO Plans, New Bank Consortium: Sources (via Reuters)

What’s New and Improved at govinfo, December 2019 Release Notes

Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, News, Open Access, Publishing, Roundup, Springer Nature

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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