MORE POSTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2017
SPARC Announces Support For “Affordable College Textbook Act of 2017”, Bills Introduced in U.S. Congress Today
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|Here’s the Full Text of an Announcement From SPARC: SPARC, an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to broaden access to academic knowledge, today applauded the introduction of the Affordable College Textbook Act of 2017, which would reduce the cost of college textbooks by expanding the use of open educational resources. The bill was introduced […]
New Report From ACRL (in Partnership with OCLC Research): “Academic Library Impact: Improving Practice and Essential Areas to Research”
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|From ACRL: ACRL announces the release of Academic Library Impact: Improving Practice and Essential Areas to Research. Developed for ACRL by OCLC Research, this valuable resource investigates how libraries can increase student learning and success and effectively communicate their value to higher education stakeholders. The full report is freely available for download on the ACRL website. Now […]
From the GPO: The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO), in partnership with the Library of Congress (LC), has made available on govinfo digitized versions of the Congressional Record (Bound Edition) from 1921-1930. This release covers debates and proceedings of the 67th through the 71st Congresses. This era of Congress covers historical topics such as: The final two years of the administration […]
Standards: NISO Releases Issues in Vocabulary Management Technical Report
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|From the National Information Standard Organization: The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of a new Technical Report, NISO TR-06-2017, Issues in Vocabulary Management. This document is one outcome of the NISO Bibliographic Roadmap Development Project, which was conducted in 2013-14 with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The technical report builds upon the […]
Repositories: arXiv Announces Launch of the “Economics arXiv”
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|From arXiv: An Economics (econ) section of the scientific repository arXiv is opening this month. arXiv is internationally acknowledged as a pioneering open access preprint repository. [Clip] It is hosted by the Cornell University Library with additional funding from 220 members libraries and several scientific foundations including the Simons Foundation. The Economics arXiv will start […]
20 Organizations Sign Open Letter to European Lawmakers Calling for Changes to a Proposed Text and Data Mining Exception
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|Via the European Association of Research Libraries (LIBER): Twenty organisations, including LIBER, have signed an open letter to European lawmakers calling for changes to a proposed Text and Data Mining exception. Coordinated by the European Alliance for Research Excellence, the letter asks Members of the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) in the European Parliament and Deputy Permanent Representatives of […]
1. Credo Reference Embarks on New Information Literacy Research Project with Leading Instructional Librarian, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe 2. Force11 Releases Conference Program For FORCE2017 October 25 – 29, 2017 in Berlin 3. Germany: Negotiations Between Project Deal and Wiley Continue (Mechanical Translation via Google) ||| Source News Release (in German) 4. Dove Medical Press Joins Taylor & […]
From the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund: This week, we celebrate Banned Books Week, the annual recognition of our right to read. But sometimes, it seems like some people take Banned Books Week as a dare to censor books instead of reading them. In fact, as we kick off Banned Books Week, two classics are under […]
Accessibility: University of Michigan Library Launches Visual Resources Kit
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|From From the University of Michigan Library and Press: With the support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the U-M Library and Press have released a new collection of resources that will support the efforts of authors, editors, publishers, and arts organizations seeking to make their publications and collections more accessible to people with visual […]
Datasets: University of North Texas Digital Library Adds Hurricane Harvey Twitter Dataset (7 Million Tweets)
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|From the University of North Texas Digital Library: This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for Tweets related to Hurricane Harvey and the subsequent flooding along the Texas gulf region. This dataset was created using the twarc package that makes use of Twitter’s search API. A total of 7,041,866 Tweets make up the combined dataset. Collected […]