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Columbia University Joins The Palace Project Platform and App
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From LYRASIS: The Palace Project, the nonprofit library-centered platform and e-reader app for digital content and services, announced today that the Columbia University Library has adopted its platform. The Palace Project is an easy-to-use platform for the management and delivery of ebooks, audiobooks, and other e-content and puts libraries at the center of their communities’ […]
Christopher Prom Named Interim Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and More News Headlines
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Libraries, News
Christopher Prom Named Interim Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) ICYMI: ALA Executive Director Tracie D. Hall’s Literarian Award Acceptance Speech Library Associations Share Community Response to White House Memorandum on Public-Access to Research (via ARL)
Funders Support Use of Reviewed Preprints in Research Assessment, Supporting Organizations Include cOAlition S, HHMI, Gates Foundation, RLUK, and Wellcome
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From eLife (Full Text of Release): eLife’s new publishing model has sparked vigorous discussion about the role of editors in selecting research articles for publication. In October, the organisation announced that it is eliminating accept/reject decisions after peer review and instead focusing on preprint review and assessment. In support, a group of nine funders have […]
arXiv Welcomes Stephanie Orphan as Program Director; Springer Nature Acquires Silicon Valley-Based Cureus Journal of Medical Science; and More News Headlines
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ALA Praises Introduction of Workforce Legislation (via ALA) AM and Big Ten Academic Alliance Sign Landmark Access Deal (via BTAA) arXiv Welcomes Stephanie Orphan as Program Director (via arXiv( EBSCO Information Services Introduces BiblioGraph (via EBSCO) European Book Publishing Statistics 2021 (via FEP) FCC Commits Another $84M for School, Library Connectivity (via MeriTalk) Springer Nature […]
Jason Williams Named Dryad Board Chair; Results of ORCID’s 2023 Board Election Announced; and More News Headlines
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Apple Introduces Apple Music Sing CJR: Archiving Official Documents as an Act of Radical Journalism (via Columbia Journalism Review (via Columbia Journalism Review) Event Report: First Workshop on Global Equity in Open Access Publishing (via Science Europe) Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) Strikes Unlimited Publishing Deal With Big Ten Academic Alliance (via IOPP) Jason Williams […]
New Report From the Internet Archive: “Securing Digital Rights For Libraries: Towards an Affirmative Policy Agenda for a Better Internet”
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From an Internet Archive Blog Post by Lila Bailey: We are excited to announce the release of our report, “Securing Digital Rights for Libraries: Towards an Affirmative Policy Agenda for a Better Internet,” and the culmination of a months-long process consulting with leading experts from libraries, civil society, and academia regarding libraries’ role in shaping […]
The article linked below was recently published by The Journal of Creative Library Practice. Title A Database Tells No Tales: Narrating Inquiry with LibGuides Author Michael Kicey University at Buffalo (SUNY) Source The Journal of Creative Library Practice November 30, 2022 From the Article: I have written at some length elsewhere[1] on how the conscious development […]
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statement on Texas Library Coalition for United Action Agreement with Elsevier; 2022 Urban Libraries Council Annual Forum Recap; and More Headlines
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ALA Invites Applications for Fourth Annual Libraries Transform Communities Engagement Grant Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statement on Texas Library Coalition for United Action Agreement with Elsevier Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Announces Pocket Burgundy Awards Price Change: Dryad Updates Fee For Authors (via Dryad News) Springer Nature Completes Acquisition of Research Square […]
Texas Library Coalition for United Action (TLCUA) Announces Historic Deal with Elsevier
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From a TLCUA Announcement: Texas Library Coalition for United Action (TLCUA) is pleased to announce that it has concluded negotiations with Elsevier, and all TLCUA members have signed or are finalizing new agreements for subscription journal access. In 2019, 44 public and private university campuses across Texas joined together to form TLCUA to think creatively […]
From an Joint Statement: The non-profit Offline Internet Consortium (OLI) is delighted to receive a $300,000 grant from UK-based Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. When half the world’s population has little or no broadband access, the OLI exists to connect researchers and practitioners seeking to provide access to high […]
