MORE POSTS FROM JUNE 2018
From Emory News: When it comes to buying books about another country’s literature, history, government and myriad other issues, there’s no better way of knowing you’re getting the best offerings than traveling right to the source. That’s what four Emory librarians on the International Area Studies team did over the past year when they traveled […]
From the BBC: People interested in the history of computing and information technology over the decades can delve into a host of programmes, with the launch of the Computer Literacy Project Archive on BBC Taster. In the 1980s, the BBC explored the world of computing in a national initiative called The Computer Literacy Project, which […]
From the Niagara Gazette: Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a new website that he says will make it easier for the public and the press to access records from various state entities under New York’s Freedom of Information Law. The website, called Open Foil NY, offers a centralized online location to file FOIL requests with 59 […]
From a Hypothesis Announcement: Hypothesis is pleased to announce that it has recently been awarded $2 million in new funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This is our sixth grant from the Mellon Foundation, and we are grateful for their continued endorsement of our mission and work to scale the use of open, standards-based web […]
1. Digital Library Federation (DLF) Statement on Supreme Court Travel Ban Decision 2. Mendeley Provides Update on Missing PDF and Annotation Problem 3. ALA’s Graphic Novel and Comics Member Initiative Group Becomes Round Table 4. Philip Walker Named Director of Vanderbilt University’s Annette and Irwin Eskind Biomedical Library 5. Bing Adds New Visual Search Features to Android and iOS […]
From the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES): The national median of total revenues per pupil and expenditures per pupil increased across all public school districts for two consecutive years during state budget years 2014 and 2015. A new report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) provides information about revenues and expenditures in […]
Report: Study Reveals Misuse of Archive Services by Fringe Communities on the Web
Archives and Special Collections, Journal Articles, News, Patrons and Users
|From the University of Alabama at Birmingham: In a large-scale analysis, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Cyprus University of Technology and University College London reveal fringe communities within Reddit and 4chan push the use of URLs from archive services to avoid censorship and undercut advertising revenue of news sources with contrasting ideologies. Web […]
The following Government Accountability Office (GAO) report was published on June 25, 2018. Title Freedom of Information Act: Agencies are Implementing Requirements but Additional Actions are Needed What GAO Found All 18 selected agencies had implemented three of six Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requirements reviewed. Specifically, all agencies had updated response letters to inform […]
New Conference Paper: “Global OA APCs 2010–2017: Major Trends”
Conference Presentations, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Publishing
|The following paper was presented last week at the 22nd International Conference on Electronic Publishing in Toronto. Title Global OA APCs (APC) 2010–2017: Major Trends Author Heather Morrison University of Ottawa Source ELPUB 2018 Conference Proceedings From the Article Sustainable OA (OA) scholarly journal publishing requires a shift from demand to supply side economics. There […]
OCLC’s Lorcan Dempsey Delves into the Power of Library Consortia in Four-Part Blog Series
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News
|From OCLC Research: Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President of the Membership and Research Division, and Chief Strategist at OCLC, has just completed a four-part blog series on “The Powers of Library Consortia.” In the series, he delves into the advantages that collaborating at scale can have for libraries as they amplify influence, share learning and innovation, […]