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Roundup (December 8, 2021)

December 8, 2021 by Gary Price

So Long: Alexa Internet Will Be Retired From Service on May 1, 2022
Alexa Internet Was Co-Founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996. It was acquired by Amazon.com in 1999.

Oxford Scholarship Online Reaches Milestone of 20,000 Titles (via UPSO)

STM Solutions (A Part of the STM Association) Begins Development of a New Platform to Detect Integrity Issues In Manuscripts Submitted For Publication in Scholarly Journals

Viral Videos Copy News Channels To Spread Disinformation (via Yahoo News via AFP)

Filed under: News, 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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