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Now Available Online: University of British Columbia (UBC) Library Digitizes William Shakespeare’s First Folio
| Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, News, Publishing, Reports
From the University of British Columbia(UBC) Library: UBC Library has made its first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies openly accessible to the public by publishing a digitized version of the volume online through Open Collections. The process to digitize the First Folio took more than a year to facilitate due to the Folio’s age and […]
Research Article: “Science in Motion: A Qualitative Analysis of Journalists’ Use and Perception of Preprints”
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The article linked below was recently published by PLOS One. Title Science in Motion: A Qualitative Analysis of Journalists’ Use and Perception of Preprints Authors Alice Fleerackers Simon Fraser University Laura L. Moorhead San Francisco State University Lauren A. Maggio Uniformed Services University Kaylee Fagan San Francisco State University Juan Pablo Alperin Simon Fraser University […]
From NYPL: The New York Public Library announced today its Best Books of 2022, a curated list of more than 250 recommended titles published this year for children, teens, and adults. For nearly a century NYPL’s expert librarians have been providing New Yorkers with their year-end recommendations, celebrating books that inspire a love of reading. This […]
Assessment Trends in the Late Pandemic Era: Reflections from the 2022 Library Assessment Conference (via Ithaka S+R) Going Into Fourth Gear: SCOSS Launches Its 4th Pledging Round (via SCOSS) UC Berkeley and Justice Dept. Reach Agreement on Online Content Accessibility (via EdScoop) ||| DOJ Statement, Docs
From NPD: After its best year on record in 2021, the young adult fiction category is maintaining its momentum in 2022. In the 52 weeks ending November 5, 2022, sales of young adult print books in the U.S. grew 3%. While this increase appears modest compared to the high watermark growth of 2021, it represents […]
“Over 240,000 Historic Arkansas Newspaper Pages Digitized for Chronicling America Project”
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, News
From the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Employees of the State Archives have digitized over 240,000 pages of historic newspapers for the Chronicling America project. So far, select years of 74 Arkansas newspaper titles have been digitized, along with the newspaper of a “free love colony” that moved from Missouri to Arkansas in 1918 and published […]
ARL and ACRL Listening Session Recording: “OSTP Policy Guidance: Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research”
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Open Access, Video Recordings
The video recording embedded below from ACRL and ARL was recorded on November 16, 2022. Event Description In this session the academic/research library community will share statements and top-of-mind issues with members of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Subcommittee on Open Science (SOS) about the new public-access memo. The updated policy guidance includes […]
#IStandWith, Metaverse, and Goblin Mode are Finalists For Oxford Word of the Year (WOTY); For First Time WOTY Will Be Determined by Public Vote
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From Oxford University Press: 2022 has been a year defined by opening back up. However, although we have finally been able to physically reunite and come together again, our world somehow feels more divided than ever. In recognition of this shift, we wanted to open up the final step of our Word of the Year […]
From the University of Cambridge Library: Darwin’s tiny, priceless Tree of Life sketch is arguably the most iconic drawing in the history of science. “The Tree of Life notebooks are Darwin at his most radical,” says Professor Jim Secord, a world expert on the subject. “The theory of natural selection and evolution is the foundation […]
Germany: Wiley and Projekt DEAL Extend Open Access Agreement into Fifth Year & More News Headlines
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Australia/New Zealand: IOP Publishing Announces Open Access Agreement With the Council of Australian University Librarians CHORUS and IEEE Have Signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to Pilot a TechRxiv Preprint Dashboard Service Germany: Wiley and Projekt DEAL Extend Open Access Agreement into Fifth Year Japan: Oxford University Press Unveils Read and Publish Deal in Japan […]
