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A New Report From the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) Project: “Library Publishing Infrastructure: Assembling New Solutions”
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|From the Next Generation Library Publishing Project: A core principle guiding the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project is transparency. In alignment with that principle, we are openly sharing all of our findings from more than a year’s worth of deep community engagement research. Our newest publication, Library Publishing Infrastructure: Assembling New Solutions documents the […]
DPLA Uploads Over 1.25 Million Media Files to Wikimedia Commons During First Year of Sloan Foundation Funded Project
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|From a Digital Public Library of America Post: Early last year, DPLA embarked on a new project, supported by Sloan Foundation, to make images from DPLA’s aggregation of more than 40 million cultural heritage artifacts accessible to vast new audiences via Wikimedia. January 2021 marked the one-year anniversary of this project, and we wanted to […]
From New York University: A new online dashboard, created by NYU Professor Alexej Jerschow, brings together COVID-19 data from U.S. states and countries around the world to compare cases, deaths, vaccines, and testing in a visual, user-friendly format. The tool also integrates a range of policies governments have implemented to limit the spread of COVID-19—including […]
From Nature: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted science in 2020 — and transformed research publishing, show data collated and analysed by Nature. Around 4% of the world’s research output was devoted to the coronavirus in 2020, according to one database. But 2020 also saw a sharp increase in articles on all subjects being submitted to scientific […]
From The World Bank Data Blog: …a [new] global dashboard that compiles publicly available Google search data and can be used by policymakers and the general public to understand how internet search interest for different terms or phrases can be used to effectively assess the spread of the coronavirus in real-time for almost 200 countries […]
Next Gen Library Publishing (NGLP) Project Shares Technical Development Directions and Issues a Request for Participation
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|From an Educopia Announcement by Kristen Ratan, Katherine Skinner, Catherine Mitchell: Following more than a year of research and engagement with library publishers, the Next Gen Library Publishing (NGLP) project is pleased to announce its technical development directions. We are now commissioning the build of two components: a cross-content web delivery/discovery platform and a cross-platform […]
New White Paper: Open For All: Exploring the Reach of Open Access Content to Non-Academic Audiences”
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|From Springer Nature: The latest results of research carried out between Springer Nature, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) and the Dutch University Libraries and the National Library consortium (UKB), illustrates a substantial advantage for content published via the Gold OA route where research is immediately and freely accessible. Since the UN’s Sustainable […]
From the Harvard Gazette: Researchers at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and Microsoft AI for Health have created a COVID-19 live tracker that monitors the current status of virus cases and deaths, as well as the reduction of new cases, […]
From the U.S. Geological Survey: The U.S. Geological Survey announced Friday the completion of a new mobile tool that provides real-time information on water levels, weather and flood forecasts all in one place on a computer, smartphone or other mobile device. The new USGS National Water Dashboard, or NWD, provides critical information to decision-makers, emergency […]
Research/Journal Article: “Using Open Data to Inform Public Library Branch Services”
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|Note: A full text preprint/open access version of the article linked below is available here (via OSF.io) Title Using Open Data to Inform Public Library Branch Services Authors Karalyn R OstlerInformation School, University of Washington Bree NorlanderInformation School, University of Washington Nicholas Weber Information School, University of Washington Source Public Library QuarterlyDOI: 10.1080/01616846.2020.1798206 Abstract This […]