MORE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2017
Thursday Roundup
Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Roundup
|1. ALA Announces $500,000 in “Libraries Ready to Code” Grants For 28 Libraries in 21 States Plus District of Columbia 2. New Resource: The Center for Open Science and EarthArXiv Launch Branded Preprint Service 3. Book Publisher Sales Were $5.72 Billion in the First Half of 2017, Ebook Publisher Sales Down 4.6%; Audiobook Publisher Sales Up 32% 4. Biodiversity […]
Video: “Canadian Copyright, OA, and OER: Why the Open Access Road Still Leads Back to Copyright (Presentation by Michael Geist)
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access
|From MichaelGeist.ca (About the Presentation): It is open access week and this year I had the honour of delivering the keynote address at a terrific open access event co-sponsored by the Ryerson University Library and Archives and the University of Toronto Libraries. My talk – which can be viewed in full here or from the embed below – starts with a […]
UPDATED October 28 Central Library Windows Defaced a Day After Opening (via Austin American-Statesman) UPDATED October 28 2017 UPDATED October 28 2017 Austin Public Library Says More Security Needed (via KVUE) KXAN learned a social work intern from Texas State will be stationed part-time at the new Central Library to provide counseling and connect homeless individuals with […]
Primary Sources: Science and Medicine: Wiley Launches Wiley Digital Archives Program
Archives and Special Collections, Conference Presentations, Data Files, Digital Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, News, Reports
|From Wiley’s Launch Announcement: John Wiley and Sons Inc is pleased to announce a new program of digital primary sources providing unprecedented access to historical records across the sciences and medicine. Launching in 2018, Wiley Digital Archives will enable institutional customers to purchase digital access to unique or rare historical primary sources, digitized from leading […]
1. ALA Unveils Shortlist For 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medals For Excellence In Fiction And Nonfiction 2. MEDLINE Delists Cancer Journal (via Retraction Watch) 3. India: National Digital Library Announces Second Phase Expansion (via IANS) 4. Facebook Releases Newsfeed Publisher Guidelines ||| Background
From The Sun Herald (Gulfpost, MS): Biloxi has sent a letter home to students. It plans to restore “To Kill A Mockingbird” to the eighth-grade classroom and begin teaching it again in class, starting Monday. Students do, however, have to ask to participate, by returning a permission slip signed by a parent to their school and […]
All of JSTOR’s Open Content Now Listed on One Page, Searchable Too!
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Journal Articles, News, Open Access
|From JSTOR: The launch of a new “Open Content” page that easier exploration of all the open content on the JSTOR platform. JSTOR currently includes a growing collection of 2,000 open access ebooks, more than 500,000 early journal articles in the public domain, and a range of other journal content made freely available by our partner […]
California Digital Library Releases Major Redesign of eScholarship Publishing and Repository Platform
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From the Office Of Scholarly Communication, University Of California: The Publishing group at the California Digital Library is pleased to announce the launch of a major redesign of the eScholarship publishing and repository platform. The new eScholarship site includes: Enhanced campus repository site Advanced customization tools for journals and publishing units Expanded readership metrics, including […]
From the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ)/University of Oxford: In this RISJ Factsheet, we analyse data from 8 focus groups and a survey of online news users to understand audience perspectives on fake news. On the basis of focus group discussions and survey data from the first half of 2017 from the […]
Campus-wide coverage! From the Cornell Chronicle: “If the zombie apocalypse did happen, how would you find the information you needed to survive?” Christian Miller wondered – and then created a Zombie Survival Guide as “a quasi-serious approach” to library resources. “It is meant to inform library users about the vast number of zombie-related materials the library collects […]