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Report: Four Textbook Publishers Sue ‘Shadow Library’ Library Genesis Over Pirated Books”
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|From Reuters: A group of major textbook publishers on Thursday sued file-sharing service Library Genesis in Manhattan federal court for what they described as copyright infringement on a “staggering” scale. The lawsuit [attachment 1] by Cengage, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill and Pearson Education claims the group of websites also known as LibGen illegally distributed more than […]
Alabama Book Decisions are Local, LGBTQ Representation Needed, Says Alabama Library Service Director (via AL.com) Google Launching the Digital Futures Project with $20 Million in Funding to Support Pesponsible AI Judaism The Late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ Unpublished Works to be Digitized (via The Forward) Research Tools Scopus Introduces the Author Position Metric – A New […]
From HRK: The DEAL Consortium, representing the German research institutions, and Elsevier, a global leader in scientific information and data analytics, are delighted to announce a transformative open access agreement for Germany. The landmark five-year agreement, signed on 1 September by Elsevier and the DEAL operating entity, MPDL Services gGmbH (MPDLS), is set to run until the […]
New Research Tool: Plan S Introduces the Hybrid Open Access Dashboard (HOAD)
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|From a Plan S Announcement: We are pleased to introduce the Hybrid Open Access Dashboard (HOAD), an openly available data analytics tool designed for academic libraries and their consortia. Developed at the State and University Library Göttingen and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), HOAD combines open data from Crossref, OpenAlex, and the cOAlition S Journal Checker Tool. By doing so, the […]
New AI-Powered Tools From Dimensions (Beta Release) & Scopus (Alpha Release) Launching Today
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|UPDATE 8/2: ChatGPT Like AIs are Coming to Major Science Search Engines (by Richard Van Noorden via Nature) —End Update— Two announcements today. Highlights from both + links below. 1. Powering Research with Dimensions AI Assistant Dimensions is introducing the beta of a new AI Assistant to enhance the user experience, with the research community […]
Lindsay Cronk Named Tulane University’s New Dean of Libraries
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|From Tulane University Libraries: Lindsay Cronk, a distinguished leader, innovator and visionary who has worked on both the corporate and the academic sides of librarianship, has accepted the appointment as the new dean of Tulane University Libraries, effective August 1, 2023. An internationally recognized expert in scholarly communication strategies, Cronk’s library leadership has delivered impactful and […]
Hong Kong Public Libraries Pull Most Books Related To Tiananmen Square Crackdown as 34th Anniversary Approaches; IIIF Consortium Announces New Extensions For Working With Digitized Maps; & More News Headlines
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|Hong Kong Public Libraries Pull Most Books Related to Tiananmen Square Crackdown as 34th Anniversary Approaches (via SCMP) IIIF Consortium Announces New Extensions For Working With Digitized Maps (via IIIF) Texas: Ransomware Attack Has Dallas Library Telling Residents to Keep Overdue Books (via DMN) Library of Congress: Connecting Communities Digital Initiative Announces Next Round of […]
A New Free-to-Read Collection From Sage Shares Research on the Southwest Asian and North African Region Call For Applications: An Introduction to Web Archive Data Analysis and Instruction (via Archive-It) DeGruyter: Four Additional Journals to be Transferred Into OA via Subscribe to Open Model Elsevier Marks International Nurses Day with New Online Resource McMaster University […]
The article linked below was recently published by PLOS One. Title Transparency in Conducting and Reporting Research: A Survey of Authors, Reviewers, and Editors Across Scholarly Disciplines Authors Mario Malički Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg Elsevier Lex Bouter Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam University Medical Centers Adrian Mulligan Elsevier Gerben ter Riet Amsterdam […]
Colabra and scite Partner on the Development of Citations Block; Europeana Publishes 2021 Impact Assessment Report; & More Headlines
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|Colabra and scite Partner on the Development of Citations Block Elsevier Announces First Transformative Open Access Agreement with South African National Library and Information Consortium (SANLiC) Europeana Publishes 2021 Impact Assessment Report Springer Nature Announces New Transformative Agreements in Portugal, Slovenia, South Africa and Elsewhere