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The article linked to below was published today by the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (JLSC). Title A Team Approach: Library Publishing Partnerships with Scholarly Societies Author Suzanne Cady Stapleton University of Florida Source Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 7(1) DOI: 10.7710/2162-3309.2326 Abstract Introduction The journal publishing service at the University of Florida […]

From the Sunlight Foundation: Since President Trump’s inauguration, his administration has made numerous policy changes that may affect the rights and lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) people, including increasing emphasis on religious freedom and conscience protections, rolling back Obama-era protections for transgender populations, and reducing efforts to increase data coverage of LGBTQ […]

From Carnegie Mellon University: Carnegie Mellon University, a longtime proponent of open-access research, is championing an international movement to revolutionize academic publishing. The university recently reached a transformative agreement with the scientific publishing giant Elsevier that prioritizes free and public access to the university’s research. [Clip] Under the terms of the agreement, which is the […]

Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and proprietors of the “Innovations in Scholarly Communication” blog have published a new partial gap analysis of Plan S. The analysis was commissioned on behalf of the Dutch Research Council (NWO), a member of cOAlition S. From the Innovations in Scholarly Communications […]

From The Forward: After years of work by a small team of linguists, computer programmers, and volunteer editors, visitors to the Yiddish Book Center’s website can now search millions of pages of digitized Yiddish books with the aid of a newly launched computer program. The program, Jochre, allows users to search for a specific word or […]

The following article was published today by PLoS ONE. Title Evaluating the Impact of Citations of Articles Based on Knowledge Flow Patterns Hidden in the Citations Authors Mingyang Wang Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, People’s Republic of China Jiaqi Zhang Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, People’s Republic of China Shijia Jiao Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, People’s Republic […]

From the U.S. Census: The U.S. Census Bureau today released the 2017 County Business Patterns (CBP). This annual series of statistics provides subnational economic data by industry. These data show detailed annual information on the number of establishments, first quarter employment, and first quarter and annual payroll at the national, state, metropolitan area, county and […]

From a National Endowment For the Arts “Arts Work” Blog Post by Sunil Iyengar: Within the next few months, the National Endowment for the Arts will release a research report on how Americans read books and literature. Based on data from the 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, the report finds that 55.5 […]

From the Association of American Publishers: The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released its September 2019 StatShot reflecting reported revenue for all tracked categories, including Trade (consumer publications), K-12 Instructional Materials, Higher Education Course Materials, Professional Publishing and University Presses. Overall publisher revenue for the month was $1.54 billion, an increase of 8.4% as […]

From the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University: This study, conducted by researchers at the Berkman Klein Center, assesses the degree to which English-language Wikipedia is successful in moderating harmful speech. The analysis is informed by two complementary approaches: interviews with 16 Wikipedia editors about the processes and guidelines for content […]