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Report: Open Funder Registry to Transition into Research Organization Registry (ROR)
| Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, News, Open Access, Reports
From a Joint Post (via Crossref): Today, we are announcing a long-term plan to deprecate the Open Funder Registry. For some time, we have understood that there is significant overlap between the Funder Registry and the Research Organization Registry (ROR), and funders and publishers have been asking us whether they should use Funder IDs or ROR IDs […]
From a National Center For Environmental Information Overview: Greenhouse gas concentrations, global sea level and ocean heat content reached record highs in 2022, according to the 33rd annual State of the Climate report. The international annual review of the world’s climate, led by scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information and published by the Bulletin of the American […]
Reports on the Elimination of Late Fees at Auckland Libraries and the Vancouver Public Library
| Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Reports
1. Auckland: Two Years After Removing Late Fees, Librarians Happy With Change (via Radio New Zealand) Two years ago Auckland Libraries removed its fines for late returns. Since then, more than a million items have been returned after their due date, meaning millions of dollars of potential fines going unclaimed. But despite the loss of […]
Issue 57 of Code4Lib Journal is Now Available Online
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, New Issue, News, Preservation
Issue 57 of the Code4Lib Journal was published online today. The complete table of contents (with abstracts) is available here. Direct links to editorial and all articles below. Editorial: Big code, little code, open code, old code by Péter Király Evaluating HTJ2K as a Drop-In Replacement for JPEG2000 with IIIF by Glen Robson, Stefano Cossu, […]
ScienceOpen Implements Scite Smart Citation Badges on 75+ Million Records
| Awards, Conference Presentations, Data Files, News, Publishing
From a Joint Announcement: ScienceOpen and Scite.ai announce announce a new cooperation to provide greater context around citation information for the academic community. The citation index at the core of ScienceOpen’s discovery environment has been augmented with Scite badges indicating whether those citations are supporting, contrasting or just mentions. ScienceOpen, founded in 2013, is a […]
Washington University Libraries Awarded Mellon Grant to Preserve Born-Digital Poetry Collections
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Preservation
From Washington University Libraries: The Washington University Libraries were awarded a two-year grant by the Mellon Foundation to support an exploration of essential questions surrounding the acquisition, discoverability, preservation, and use of born-digital poetry collections. The $250,000 award will enable the University Libraries to develop online resources and systems to process, preserve, and steward the […]
From Spectrum Local News-St.Louis: The Illinois Secretary of State [Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias] is condemning recent bomb threats against public libraries, saying the threats of violence and intimidation are “unfortunately becoming all too common” at libraries across the nation. Since last week, there were at least five threats against libraries in the Chicago area according […]
“Redressing Relationships with Historically Marginalized Communities” (A New Issue Brief ARL, CARL, and Ithaka S+R)
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Interviews, Libraries, National Libraries, New Issue, News
From a Joint News Release: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), and Ithaka S+R published an issue brief today: “Redressing Relationships with the Historically Marginalized/Redresser les relations avec les personnes historiquement marginalisées.” In 2022, ARL, CARL, and Ithaka S+R published a report about how research libraries could best […]
New Research Tool: Plan S Introduces the Hybrid Open Access Dashboard (HOAD)
| Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Dashboards, Data Files, Elsevier, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Reports, Springer Nature
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 […]
From the Library of Congress (LC) “Inside Adams” Blog: The Second World War, while in many ways a desperate and tragic time, was also a time of immense focus on research and development worldwide. Researchers made new advances, not just in technologies related to weaponry, but in fields such as chemistry, metallurgy, optics, physics, and […]
