Posts by Gary Price
NSF Awards Five $5 Million Grant to Help Older Adults Spot Online Scams, Disinformation
From the University of Buffalo & University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Information: Last year, more than 92,000 U.S. adults aged 60 and over reported being victims of online scams, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. Their losses? Roughly $1.7 billion. To fight this problem, a University at Buffalo-led research team was awarded […]
Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) & Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) Introduce Right to Read Act to Invest in Literacy & Address Disparities in Access to School Library Resources and More News Headlines
Connecticut State Library Receives $948,000 Federal Grant Funding to Support the Automatic Transfer and Preservation of Historical Digital Records From State Agencies 5 AI Art Generators You Can Use Right Now (via IEEE Spectrum) Indiana: Librarians Want to Help Combat Indiana’s Declining Literacy Rate (via WFYI) Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) & Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) […]
New Research Tools: CCSD and COAR Announce Launch of Directory of Open Access Preprint Repositories
From the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR): The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) of France and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) are pleased to announce the launch of a directory of open access preprint repositories. Preprints are becoming an increasingly important part of the research communications landscape. Posting preprints allows researchers […]
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OpenBibArt: A Century of Western Art Bibliography Now Available Online
From The Getty Library / Getty Research Institute: OpenBibArt, an open-access art-historical database, is now online, making nearly a century of western bibliography on art history easily available to all. The result of a successful collaboration among three institutions: the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) in Paris, the Getty Research Institute (GRI) in Los […]
Video Recording of a Panel Discussion “The Oxford Dictionary of African American English in the Making”
From Oxford Languages (via YouTube): Oxford Languages, a division of Oxford University Press and publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), and Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research have partnered for a three-year research project, whose aim is to compile the Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE). The project is […]
Wiley Plans to Restore Access to Approximately 1,380 E-Book Titles Removed from ProQuest Academic Complete Collection
UPDATES–Media Coverage and Reactions Update 3) Wiley Backtracks – But Only For Nine Months…(Campaign to Investigate the Ebook Market for Libraries) Update 2) Publisher Restores Access to More Than 1,000 Free E-Books After Faculty Complaint (via GW Hatchet, George Washington University Student Media) Update 1) Responding to Criticism, Publisher Reinstates Blocked Ebooks (via Inside Higher […]
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A Demographic Assessment of the 2022 Library Publishing Forum; FOLIO Launches Morning Glory Release; and More Headlines
A Demographic Assessment of the 2022 Library Publishing Forum FOLIO Launches Morning Glory Release Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) Welcomes Two New Publishers to a New Program That Waives Costs for Smaller Organisations New Report Shows Significant Improvement in Consumer Cyber Hygiene (via NextGov)
New Orleans Public Library Announces Launch of Crescent City Sounds: New Orleans-Sourced Music Streaming Platform
From the New Orleans Public Library: New Orleans’ first music streaming platform to feature exclusively local artists, Crescent City Sounds, is now available for listening. Created by the New Orleans Public Library with software designed by Rabble, Crescent City Sounds aims to help up-and-coming musicians build a following and gain access to the local music scene. The […]
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Launches New Online Resources to Provide Communities with Information on Environmental Enforcement and Compliance
From the EPA: …the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced two new online tools available to the public that provide additional information on environmental enforcement and compliance in their communities. Through improved transparency, advanced technologies and community participation, these tools empower the public to help EPA assure compliance nationwide and protect public health and the […]
White House Releases Blueprint for AI Bill of Rights; National Archives (NARA) Seeks Feedback on Draft Customer Research Agenda; & More News Headlines
Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights: A Vision for Protecting Our Civil Rights in the Algorithmic Age (via OSTP: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy) Internet Archive Seeks Donations of Materials to Build a Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (via IA Blog) JSTOR Open Community Collections now available through […]
