Roundup (April 6, 2020)

April 6, 2020 by Gary Price

DORA Community Call: Roles for Libraries in Research Assessment Reform

Georgia State Researchers Use Social Media Chatter to Show the Spread of COVID-19

NASA CIO Agencywide Memo: Alert: Cyber Threats Significantly Increasing During Coronavirus Pandemic ||| NASA Sees an “Exponential” Jump in Malware Attacks as Personnel Work from Home (via ars technica)

New Issue: Library and Information Research (LIR)
Special issue: Good Practice in NHS-Funded Library and Knowledge Services; Vol. 43 No. 127 (2020)

Video: Smithsonian Mass Digitization: National Museum of American History, National Numismatic Collection

Science Platform ResearchGate Launches COVID-19 Community (via Reuters)

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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. 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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