The following systematic literature review was recently published by PLOS One. Title What Drives and Inhibits Researchers to Share and Use Open Research Data? A Systematic Literature Review to Analyze Factors Influencing Open Research Data Adoption Authors Anneke ZuiderwijkDelft University of Technology Rhythima ShindeETH Zürich Wei Jeng National Taiwan University Source PLoS ONE 15(9): e0239283DOI: […]

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: Not Real News Roundup See Also: More […]

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87. Statement by Chief Justice John Roberts (via Supremecourt.gov) Below, find links to a few recorded interviews and lectures with Justice Ginsburg, most via the C-SPAN Video Library. August 31, 2019 Conversation with Nina Totenberg at the National Book Festival (via C-SPAN) July 24, 2019 […]

From the University of Rochester: A pioneering initiative to make texts from the Middle Ages available to scholars and students around the world receives continued support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Middle English Texts Series “puts the literature out there for everybody.” Teachers and students of medieval literature long faced a problem […]

From BookNet Canada: At a glance, we found that from 2018 through mid-2020, the percentage of borrowers has lowered 1% each year; going from 28% in 2018 to 26% in the first half of 2020. In comparison, the percentage of buyers has slightly increased from 21% in 2018 to 24% in 2019 before falling slightly […]

From Bloomberg: Facebook Inc. is again being sued for allegedly spying on Instagram users, this time through the unauthorized use of their mobile phone cameras. The lawsuit springs from media reports in July that the photo-sharing app appeared to be accessing iPhone cameras even when they weren’t actively being used. Read the Complete Article More […]

The IFLA ARL Hot Topics 2020 webinar was recorded on September 8, 2020. From the International Federation of Library Associations: From Gutenberg to Google, libraries have constantly evolved to advance and respond to society’s needs. Yet, their fundamental purpose has remained the same: to provide access to trustworthy, authoritative knowledge. As such, libraries serve as […]

The following article was published online today by PLOS One. Title The Impact of Skim Reading and Navigation When Reading Hyperlinks on the Web Authors Gemma Fitzsimmons University of Southampton Lewis T. Jayes University of Surrey Mark J. Weal University of Southampton Denis Drieghe University of Southampton Source PLOS ONE 15(9): e0239134 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239134 Abstract […]

From the “Working Today to Preserve Our Tomorrow” Publication Announcement: Highlights From the Report Include: The appointment of Leslie Weir as Librarian and Archivist of Canada; The unveiling of the design for the joint facility that LAC will share with Ottawa Public Library; The beginning of construction of a second preservation centre—the first net-zero carbon […]

From the U. of Miami Libraries: UM Libraries’ core mission is providing the information resources needed for teaching and research. Overall our collections funding to meet that mission remains strong, however a university-mandated budget reduction requires the Libraries to strategically reduce and realign collections spending for the coming year. Given the specific focus of the […]