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New Rule Takes Effect Today: “Missouri Libraries Now Required to Adopt New Obscene Material Policy to Receive Funding”
From KOMU-TV: Libraries across mid-Missouri are adapting to a new rule that took effect Tuesday. The administrative rule, enacted by Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, could limit children’s access to certain books or topics. The rule restricts libraries from putting any “obscene” material on library shelves. It also allows parents to object to materials as inappropriate and […]
National Archives Awards $6.5 Million in Grants for Historical Records Projects
Here’s the Full Text of a NARA Announcement: Acting Archivist of the United States Debra Steidel Wall has awarded 47 grants totaling $6,510,701 for projects in 27 states and the District of Columbia to improve public access to historical records. The National Archives grants program is carried out through the National Historical Publications and Records […]
UKRI Updates Guidance For Open Access Policy (New Policy Will Apply to Monographs, Book Chapters and Edited Collections)
From UK Research and Innovation: From 1 January 2024, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s new open access policy will apply to monographs, book chapters and edited collections The open access policy applied since April 2022 for peer-reviewed research articles acknowledging UKRI funding. The policy aims to ensure that findings from research UKRI funds with public […]
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New Jersey: Libraries and Schools Would Be Prohibited From Banning Books or Lose State Funding Under Legislation Introduced Today
From the New Jersey Monitor: Libraries and public schools in New Jersey would be prohibited from banning books — and would lose state funding if they did so — under new legislation introduced Monday. Public libraries would be required to adopt the American Library Association’s “library bill of rights” or a similar policy under the […]
America’s Fastest Growing Cities: Texas Continues to Top the Charts With Fastest-Growing Cities (New Data From US Census)
From the U.S. Census: Nine of the nation’s 15 fastest-growing cities were in the South, according to Vintage 2022 Population Estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Of the nine fastest-growing cities in the South, six were in Texas. New estimates for metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas and for housing units at the national, state […]
UC Berkeley University Librarian Jeff MacKie-Mason Announces Retirement Plans
From the UC Berkeley Library: Today, Jeff MacKie-Mason, UC Berkeley’s university librarian, announced his retirement plans. In addition to overseeing the UC Berkeley Library system — comprising nearly two dozen locations — MacKie-Mason is a professor in UC Berkeley’s School of Information and an affiliate professor in the Department of Economics. MacKie-Mason will retire in […]
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Association of University Presses (AUPresses) Joins in Supporting Ukrainian Publishers; Rebuilding Libraries. Restoring Hope: OpenAire Stands in Solidarity With the Wider and Librarian Community in Turkey; and More News Headlines
American Library Association (ALA) Announces 240 Recipients of Library Accessibility Funding For Small and Rural Libraries Association of University Presses (AUPresses) Joins in Supporting Ukrainian Publishers EIFL Releases 2022 Annual Report Open Access Publisher Frontiers Moves to Counter Platform for Article Metrics Initiative Supporting Ukrainian Publishing Resilience and Recovery (SUPRR) Receives Grant From De Gruyter eBound […]
The MIT Press Receives $10 Million Endowment Gift From Arcadia For Open Access to Knowledge
Here’s the Complete Announcement From MIT Press: The MIT Press today announced that it has received a $10 million gift from Arcadia—a charitable foundation that works to protect nature, preserve cultural heritage, and promote open access to knowledge—to establish the Arcadia Open Access Fund. The new fund will support the MIT Press’s ground-breaking efforts to publish open access […]
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Preprint: “Supporting Diamond Open Access Journals. Interest and Feasibility of Direct Funding Mechanisms”
The research article (preprint) linked below was recently shared on bioRxiv. Title Supporting Diamond Open Access Journals. Interest and Feasibility of Direct Funding Mechanisms Authors Quentin Dufour ENS-EHESS, CMH David Pontille ENS-EHESS, CMH Didier Torny CSI-I3, CNRS Source via bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.03.539231 Abstract More and more academics and governments consider that the open access model […]
“UW-Madison Pharmacy Archive Fills the Prescription For Curiosity”
From The Cap Times: What do frogs riding bicycles, instructions for turning a diaper into a homemade gas mask, century-old opium, and decades-old laxatives have in common? They are all items you can find in the collections at the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy (AIHP), an archival library located in the basement of […]
