July 6, 2022 by Gary Price
From The Daily Record: Circle of Excellence winner – opens in new tab” data-uw-rm-ext-link=””>Circle of Excellence winner Carla Hayden reveals lessons learned from her 23 years as CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore and from the past six years as the librarian of Congress. Plus, she offers valuable advice to other women […]
July 6, 2022 by Gary Price
From the US Census: Today the U.S. Census Bureau announced the release of major updates to the data explorer tool, My Community Explorer (MCE). MCE is an interactive, map-based tool that highlights demographic and socioeconomic data. These data measure inequality and help inform data-based solutions. This tool is designed to help users identify underserved communities […]
July 5, 2022 by Gary Price
From the Our World in Data Website: Explore the world’s political systems with the leading approaches of measuring democracy. Direct to Democracy Data Explorer See Also: Download the Complete Democracy Data. See Also: “Democracy Data: How Do Researchers Identify Which Countries Are Democratic?” (via Our World in Data)
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July 5, 2022 by Gary Price
Canada’s Bestselling Books by Province and Territory (Booknet Canada) Changing the Academic Gender Narrative through Open Access (via Publications) NLM Responds to Librarians’ Open Letter re: MeSH Term Changes (Medical Library Association) Overview of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act, H.R. 8152 The Scientist Who Developed a New Way to Understand Communication (via Quanta)
July 4, 2022 by Gary Price
The article linked below was recently published by Library & Information Science Research. Title Exploring User Experience in Digital Libraries Through Questionnaire and Eye-Tracking Data Authors Maja Kuhar University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Tanja Merčun University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Source Library and Information Science Research Volume 44, Issue 3, July 2022, 101175 DOI: 10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101175 Abstract In […]
July 3, 2022 by Gary Price
The article linked below was recently published by PLoS One. Title Click Me…! The Influence of Clickbait on User Engagement in Social Media and the Role of Digital Nudging Authors Anna-Katharina Jung University of Duisburg-Essen Stefan Stieglitz University of Duisburg-Essen Tobias Kissmer University of Duisburg-Essen Milad Mirbabaie Paderborn University Tobias Kroll University of Duisburg-Essen Source […]
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June 30, 2022 by Gary Price
From an Educopia Announcement: With more than AUD $1M in support from the Mellon Foundation, we at Educopia are excited to be working with collaborative partners at Curtin University and OAPEN on the Book Analytics Dashboard Project (2022-2025) to support the creation of a community-governed OA book analytics service for publishers. This service is needed […]
June 30, 2022 by Gary Price
From the U.S. Census: The last two decades have seen the country grow continuously older. Since 2000, the national median age – the point at which one-half the population is older and one-half younger – has increased by 3.4 years, with the largest single-year gain of 0.3 years coming in 2021, bringing it to 38.8 […]
June 30, 2022 by Gary Price
The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). Title The Financial Maintenance of Social Science Data Archives: Four Case Studies of Long-Term Infrastructure Work Authors Kristin R. Eschenfelder University of Wisconsin-Madison Kalpana Shankar University College Dublin Greg Downey University of Wisconsin-Madison Source Journal of […]
June 30, 2022 by Gary Price
From the Ithaka S+R Interview by Dylan Ruediger and Ruby MacDougall: Data communities provide social and practical incentives for scientists to voluntarily share and reuse data with colleagues. In order for data communities to emerge and grow, they need support. Information professionals, such as data librarians and research computing specialists, can advise data communities on […]