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Miami-Dade Public Library’s Bookmobiles Makes Reading, Technology Accessible; The New York Times and New York Public Library Release 2022 Best Illustrated Children’s Books; and More
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Association of Research Libraries: ARL Board of Directors 2023 Elected by ARL Membership & University of North Texas to Become 128th Member of ARL Miami-Dade Public Library’s Bookmobiles Makes Reading, Technology Accessible (via CBS Miami) San Francisco Voters Approve Renewal of the Library Preservation Fund (via SF.gov) The New York Times and New York Public […]
From the United States Courts: A new free public database of federal judges’ financial disclosure reports (FDRs), including periodic transaction reports (PTRs), was launched today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Once users register in the new database, they can access an electronic version of federal judges’ reports. The new database design allows […]
Supporting Software Preservation Services in Research and Memory Organizations (New White Paper From CLIR and Software Preservation Network)
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From a Joint News Release (via CLIR) A new white paper from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Software Preservation Network (SPN) presents findings from a survey- and interview-based study of software preservation service providers, including archivists, librarians, preservation specialists, technologists, and other information professionals. “The need for greater attention to […]
“Paper: Social Justice Storytelling Helps Librarians Advocate for Patrons, Themselves”
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From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Librarians need to be able to communicate about social justice issues, and teaching social justice storytelling to library school students will help them develop the skills to do so, two researchers say. Kate McDowell, an information sciences professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Nicole Cooke, a former Illinois information […]
The article linked below was published today by Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics. Title Open Science in Africa: What Policymakers Should Consider Authors Elisha R. T. Chiware Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa Lara Skelly Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom Stellenbosch Business School, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa Source Frontiers in Research […]
Happy World Digital Preservation Day 2022! Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Launches “Digital Preservation for Small Businesses: An Introductory Guide” & Releases New Revision of BitList of Digitally Endangered Species
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From the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC): Continuing the theme Data For All, For Good, Forever from another celebration – iPres 2022 – World Digital Preservation Day showcases how digital preservation enables digits to flourish. “Data For All, For Good, Forever is a chance to connect practitioners and supporters in celebrating the positive impact digital preservation has had across all parts […]
From The Japan News: Elementary, junior high and high school students who have used e-books tend to find paper books easier to read, according to a recent survey conducted by the Japan School Library Association. [Clip] The survey asked some 7,000 students who said they had read an e-book, “Which do you find easier to […]
Media History: Digitized Publications on New Website Tell Early Film, Broadcast, Recording History
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From the University of Wisconsin-Madison: The early history of the film industry is written in yellowing print magazines and newspapers, gathering dust in remote corners. But Eric Hoyt is helping to make that history much more accessible to researchers and others. Hoyt is director of the Media History Digital Library (MHDL), a free online resource, […]
scite Introduces a “New, Open System for the Automated Detection of Retractions and Other Editorial Notices in the Scholarly Ecosystem”
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From the scite Blog: Retractions and other editorial notices (like corrections, errata, comments, etc.) are key mechanisms by which authors and publishers can update the broader community about changes made to existing research. [Clip] In the last few years, a number of systems have been developed to track these notices, from RetractionWatch, which manually curates […]
eLife Ends Accept/Reject Decisions Following Peer Review, Will Publish Every Paper it Reviews as a Reviewed Preprint
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Here’s the Full Text of an eLife Announcement: eLife is pleased to announce a major change in editorial practice. Building on its 2021 shift to exclusively reviewing preprints, the organisation is ending the practice of making accept/reject decisions following peer review. From January 31, 2023, eLife will instead publish every paper it reviews as a […]
