MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2017
1. Google Drops “Instant Search” Feature (via Search Engine Land) 2. Nature Editorial: “The Digital Native is a Myth” 3. Herbert Van de Sompel to Receive Peters Award at December CNI Meeting 4. Debut: University of Colorado Boulder’s Library Bike Hits the Road 5. Wiley and Instructure Partner to Build Next Generation of Higher Education Courseware 6. ReadCube […]
From UCL Press (University College London): This dynamic, innovative, evolving and open platform publishes contributions connected to the AHRC/British Library project, The Academic Book of the Future, which has been investigating key aspects of scholarly publishing for the last two years, led by a team of academics from UCL and Kings College London. The platform, […]
From the Dataverse Blog: Any fish can tell you: It’s important to know the waters you’re swimming in. To that end, Usability Researcher Derek Murphy and Product Research Specialist Julian Gautier have put together a spreadsheet that compares Dataverse’s features, usage, and governance with other prominent online data repositories. In this way, we sought to […]
Conference Paper: “Supporting Digital Preservation and Access with Fedora”
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|The following paper will be presented next month at the 2017 IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Wrocław, Poland. Title Supporting Digital Preservation and Access with Fedora Authors David Wilcox DuraSpace Evviva Weinraub Northwestern University Source via IFLA Library Abstract Digital preservation is complex, and the vocabulary is not well-defined. A long-term digital preservation and […]
1. ARL Diversity Scholars Selected for 2017–2019 2. Adobe Announces Plan to End-of-Life of Flash (via Adobe) 3. House Panel Wants Google, Facebook, AT&T CEOs to testify on Internet Rules (via Reuters) ||| More About the Hearing (via House Energy and Commerce) 4. Predatory Journals Hit By ‘Star Wars’ Sting (via Discover) 5. Google adds new SOS Alerts […]
From UMass Amherst Libraries: The UMass Amherst Libraries announce the new United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Virtual Assistance Pilot Program beginning on Tuesday, August 1, 2017, at the Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC) located in the Science & Engineering Library, Lederle Lowrise, University of Massachusetts Amherst. The USPTO recommends using a registered attorney […]
IMLS Now Accepting Nominations for 2018 National Medal for Museum and Library Service
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|From the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS): IMLS is now accepting nominations for the 2018 awards. Anyone—an employee, a board member, a member of the public, or an elected official—can nominate an institution. To be considered, the institution must complete and return a nomination form by October 2, 2017. This year, IMLS is particularly interested […]
From the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Voices Blog: Patients with serious or immediately life-threatening diseases or conditions who have no comparable or satisfactory alternative therapy and who seek access to potentially life-saving investigational drugs will have another option to guide them through the process – thanks to the launch today of a new online […]
On July 19, 2017, ASAPbio (Accelerating Science and Publication in biology) held “The Evolving Preprint Ecosystem” an all-day meeting in Cambridge, MA. A video of the meeting is linked below. From the Description: The preprint ecosystem is growing rapidly. The CZI/bioRxiv partnership will fuel the expansion of the leading preprint server in the life sciences. Many other servers and […]
From the University of Michigan Library (via YouTube) Michigan Publishing visits the staff of ACLS Humanities E-Book in New York to discuss their selection of Fulcrum as their next-generation platform for reading, discovery, and preservation. The Fulcrum platform, hosted by the U-M Library and developed with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, presents […]