MORE POSTS FROM AUGUST 2016
Here’s the Full Text of the Federal Trade Commission News Release: The Federal Trade Commission has charged the publisher of hundreds of purported online academic journals with deceiving academics and researchers about the nature of its publications and hiding publication fees ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars. The FTC’s complaint alleges that OMICS Group, […]
Note from infoDOCKET Founder/Editor, Gary Price: Thanks to SAGE for once again opening their paywall to infoDOCKET so we can share the new full text article linked to below at no charge. The article will be available for the next month. Just click and go. Registration is not required. Title Academic Library Website Functions in […]
From Esri: Smart mapping leader Esri today released a robust collection of web maps that display NOAA forecast streamflow data for the continental United States. Esri’s multiscale web map applications allow users to view forecast water flows in real time at high resolution. The maps weave NOAA’s recently released National Water Model data and Esri’s ArcGIS […]
From Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) announced today that its free, not-for-profit preprint service bioRxiv has received generous additional financial support. In the three years since bioRxiv began, biomedical scientists have warmly embraced the sharing of results as preprints prior to formal publication. Submissions to bioRxiv are growing at an increasingly […]
Funding: IMLS Awards Nearly $7 Million in Grants (Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian, Native American, Native Hawaiian Programs)
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|Two news items today from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). From IMLS: The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) today announced $2,985,512 in grants aimed at recruiting and educating the next generation of librarians, faculty, and library leaders. The grants were awarded through the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. Friday’s announcements […]
From OCLC: Today is the 45th anniversary of the launch of WorldCat, the world’s most comprehensive database of information about library collections. On August 26, 1971, the OCLC Online Union Catalog (now known as WorldCat) began operation. From a single terminal, catalogers at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, were able to catalog 133 books online […]
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Loida Garcia-Febo and Terri Grief are the Candidates For 2018-19 ALA Presidency
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|Below is the Complete Announcement from the American Library Association. Loida Garcia-Febo, International Library Consultant and President of Information New Wave in Brooklyn, New York, and Terri Grief, School Librarian at McCracken County High School in Paducah, Kentucky, are the candidates for the 2018-19 presidency of the American Library Association (ALA). Garcia Febo Garcia-Febo has been […]
The following selection of full text Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports are made available to the public by the Federation of American Scientists. Steven Aftergood from FAS frequently lists new/updated reports on Secrecy News (the source of this roundup). 1. Heroin Trafficking in the United States August 23, 2016 2. Latin America and the Caribbean: Fact Sheet on […]
From The Maneater (Student Newspaper at Mizzou): Last year, Ellis was open 24 hours for five days per week. This semester, during finals week and the week before, Ellis Library will be open 24 hours a day. Regularly, on Monday through Thursday, the library will close at midnight, and on Saturday and Sunday, the library […]