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From FSU Florida State University Libraries is launching FSU’s first open-access publishing program. Florida State Open Publishing (FSOP) provides the university’s faculty, students and staff with the digital publishing tools and support needed to produce peer-reviewed, open scholarly publications, educational resources and other digital research outputs. Created to address gaps in traditional scholarly publishing, FSOP […]
More Than 7,100 Participate in the 107th and Final ALA Midwinter Meeting
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|Here’s the Full Text of an ALA Release about 2021 Midwinter. The American Library Association hosted the 107th and final Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits online Jan. 22-26, 2021. The event attracted more than 7,100 participants. The second ALA conference to be presented virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Midwinter Virtual connected librarians and library workers […]
Roundup (November 19, 2020)
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Gale, News, Open Access, Roundup
|Clarivate Identifies Global Scientific Pioneers with Annual Highly Cited Researchers List Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive Group of Educational Publishers (Pearson, Cengage, Elsevier, Macmillan Learning, and McGraw Hill) Obtain Preliminary Injunction Against 231 Websites Illegally Selling Test Answers and Solution Manuals JISC/Wiley Partnership: Leading UK Universities Have Signed on to Digitise Previously Uncatalogued Scientific Archive […]
Call For Proposals: Open Education Conference 2020 Cengage Releases Statement on Inclusion and Diversity Efforts Max Planck Society Enters Multi-Year Read and Publish Agreement with AIP Publishing Northern Arizona St. University: Cline Library Grant to Fund Extended Reality Programming Rollout of More Detailed and Colorful Google Maps Now Underway (via Google/The Keynote) Zoom Coming Soon […]
Roundup (June 30, 2020)
Dashboards, EBSCO, Funding, Gale, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Roundup
|European Commission Opens Consultation on Future of Digital and Culture Gale Analytics Launches New Interactive Dashboards to Help Public Libraries Gain Deeper Insights into Community Interests and Needs GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO Partners with Books at JSTOR to Include Demand-Driven Acquisition for E-Books in GOBI Knight Foundation Announces a Wide Range of New Grants […]
A New Trump Appointee Has Put Internet Freedom Projects In Crisis Mode (via The Verge) EIFL Endorses Open COVID Pledge Florida A&M University Begins Offering Cengage Unlimited Subscriptions Springer Nature Launches New OA Journal Series The Search is on For ORCID’s New Executive Director
Authors Alliance Submits Reply Comments to U.S. Copyright Office on the Meaning of Publication in the Online Context Cengage Statement on Landmark Supreme Court Decision Extending Federal Worker Protections to LGBTQ Americans Elsevier Journal To Retract 2012 Paper Widely Derided as Racist (Via Retraction Watch) Facebook and Instagram Will Allow US Users to Block Political […]
Roundup (May 20, 2020)
Digital Collections, Funding, Gale, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, National Libraries, News, PLOS, Publishing, Roundup
|2020 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum and Other Fall Events Will Transition to Virtual Format Emergency Funding Allows NLM to Expand COVID-19 Research and Services Gale Digital Scholar Lab Adds Instructional Support and Gains Customer Momentum Misinformation About Coronavirus Finds New Avenues on Unexpected Sites (via Washington Post) National Library of Latvia Announces Reopening Plan […]
OverDrive Announces Launch of “OverDrive Professional” Division that “Supplements” Corporate, Academic, and Law Libraries
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|From OverDrive: OverDrive announce[s] the launch of OverDrive Professional, a new division that supplements corporate, academic and law libraries. With this launch, students, knowledge workers and researchers can now benefit from Libby, the award-winning reading app. [Clip] The catalog contains a wide variety of titles in all subjects, including career and professional development, course materials, industry-specific […]
From a McGraw Hill: McGraw-Hill and Cengage today announced that they have mutually agreed to terminate their proposed merger of equals, which had been announced in May 2019. The decision was unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of McGraw-Hill and Cengage. The Termination Agreement foresees no payment of a break fee on either side. In […]