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Journal Article: “Measuring Publication Diversity Among the Most Productive Scholars: How Research Trajectories Differ in Communication, Psychology, and Political Science”
The article linked below was published today by Scientometrics. Title Measuring Publication Diversity Among the Most Productive Scholars: How Research Trajectories Differ in Communication, Psychology, and Political Science Authors Manuel Goyanes University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain Márton … [Read More...]
Online Resources: “New Online Archive Offers a Glimpse into More than a Century of American History”
From Cooper Union: The Cooper Union introduces Voices from the Great Hall, an extraordinary new public resource that tells the history of New York and the nation through the words of the people who helped to shape it from the stage of the storied Great Hall. Voices from the Great Hall is a digital … [Read More...]
Not Real News: An Associated Press Roundup of Untrue Stories Shared Widely on Social Media This Week
From the Associated Press: A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts… Direct to Full Text See Also: More “Not … [Read More...]
Research Resource: World Health Statistics 2022 Published, Report and Dataset Available Online
From the World Health Organization: The World Health Organization has published its latest comprehensive set of World Health Statistics to 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic – which led to an estimated 4.5 million excess deaths in that year. The statistics reveal the extent to which the … [Read More...]
University of Michigan: “Donna Hayward Appointed Interim Leader of U-M Libraries”
From the University of Michigan: Donna L. Hayward, associate dean of libraries, has been appointed the University of Michigan’s interim university librarian and dean of libraries, effective July 1. She will serve in the interim role until a new university librarian and dean of libraries is selected … [Read More...]
Online Resource: NASA, Partners Offer Global View of Environmental Changes via an Expanded Earth Observing Dashboard
From NASA: Continuing the collaboration that produced the COVID-19 Earth Observing Dashboard in 2020, NASA and its international partners in Europe and Japan have combined the collective scientific power of their Earth-observing satellite data in expanding the online resource to document a broad … [Read More...]
Canadian and US Academic Libraries Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day by Working Together to Facilitate Access for the Print Disabled
From CARL (Canadian Association of Research Libraries) & ARL (Association of Research Libraries) Joint Release: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled was adopted on June 27, 2013, in Marrakesh and is … [Read More...]
“‘Where Did You Get That Book?’ Freckle Survey Investigates the Role of Libraries and Reading in American Culture”
From EveryLibrary: The Freckle Report is a survey and review of consumer reading habits. Since 2019, the Freckle Report releases a full report of the ways in which consumer reading habits are changing and the role books play in American culture. Freckle Report has just released its half-year … [Read More...]
Roundup (May 19, 2022)
Dalhousie Libraries Welcomes New Dean of Libraries Michael Vandenburg (via DL) Open Access Survey in Greece: Status Quo, Surprising Findings and Starting Points (via ZBW Media Talk) Open Access Books: Do We Need a Plan S Moment? (via Digital Sciences) Virtual Workshop Recap: Towards Better Sharing … [Read More...]
National Endowment for Arts Announces Second Round of Grants for FY 2022
From the NEA: For its second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2022, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is announcing more than $91 million in recommended grants to organizations in all 50 states and U.S. jurisdictions. Grants are in three NEA funding categories: Grants for Arts … [Read More...]
Five Projects Receive 2022 AIA/ALA Library Building Award
From the American Institute of Architects (AIA): The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association (ALA) are awarding five libraries with the 2022 AIA/ALA Library Building Award for excellence in architectural design. Complete details for each project are available on … [Read More...]
Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Awarded $4 Million Grant From Arcadia For Notify Project
From a COAR Announcement: We are delighted to announce that COAR has been awarded a US$4 million grant from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. The 4 year grant will go towards the , which is developing and implementing a standard protocol for connecting the content in … [Read More...]
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commits $50 Million in Emergency Connectivity Funding to Schools and Libraries to Help Close the Homework Gap
From the Federal Communications Commission: Nearly $4.9 Billion Committed to Date to Connect Over 12.6 Million Students in All States, Territories and Washington, D.C. The Federal Communications Commission today announced that it is committing over $50 million in the 15th wave of Emergency … [Read More...]
Educopia’s Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) Project Releases “FOREST Framework for Values-Driven Scholarly Communication”
From an Educopia Blog Post by Caitlin Perry: The Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) team is excited to announce the release of the FOREST Framework for Values-Driven Scholarly Communication. This framework has been created to help scholarly communication organizations and communities to … [Read More...]
Roundup (May 18, 2022)
Brown University Library Awarded Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to Create New Frameworks to Preserve and Publish Born-Digital Art (via Brown U. Libraries) Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Adding Artist Files to Wikidata (via Unbound) William & Mary Libraries … [Read More...]
UNC University Libraries: “University of South Carolina and the University of Virginia to Be Partners for On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance”
From UNC University Libraries: The University of South Carolina and the University of Virginia to be partners for On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance. On the Books uses text mining and machine learning to identify racist language in North Carolina legal documents during the Jim Crow … [Read More...]
A New Paper by Jonathan Band: “Justice Breyer, Copyright, and Libraries”
From the Association of Research Libraries (ARL): On the occasion of Associate Justice Stephen Breyer retiring at the end of this US Supreme Court term, Jonathan Band, who represents and advises the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) on copyright issues, wrote a reflection on Breyer’s impact on … [Read More...]
Delta Think: “How Does the Growth of a Particular Publisher’s Open Access Content Factor Into the Relative Value of a Big Deal? Part 2: The Findings”
From a Delta Think Blog Post by Heather Staines: This month’s News & Views is the second part of an article derived from ongoing research involving Michael Levine-Clark, John McDonald, Jason Price, and Heather Staines. This content, and the previous April 2022 News & Views, is based on a … [Read More...]
Report: “Texas Librarians Face Harassment as They Navigate Book Bans”
From The Texas Tribune: For those librarians working at schools and at public libraries, the pressure to keep some challenged books off the shelves is growing. And some Texas librarians say the insults and threats through social media and the added pressure from supervisors to remove books are … [Read More...]
Roundup (May 17, 2022)
Institutions Partner With ACS to Advance First California-Wide Transformative Open Access Agreement The Big Ten Academic Alliance Announces Support for Reveal Digital … [Read More...]
