MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2020
The following article (preprint) was recently posted on bioRxiv. Title Preprinting a Pandemic: The Role of Preprints in the COVID-19 Pandemic Authors Nicholas Fraser ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics Liam Brierley University of Liverpool Gautam Dey MRC Lab for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL Jessica K Polka ASAPbio Mate Palfy The Company of Biologists […]
Journal Article: “‘You Need to Make it as Easy as Possible for Me’: Creating Scholarly Communication Reports for Liaison Librarians”
Libraries, News, Publishing, Reports, Scholarly Communications
|The article linked to below was recently published by the Journal of Title “You Need to Make it as Easy as Possible for Me”: Creating Scholarly Communication Reports for Liaison Librarians Authors Jessica Lange McGill University Carrie Hanson McGill University Source Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 8(1); p.eP2329. DOI: 10.7710/2162-3309.2329 Abstract Introduction The typical […]
The following research article (preprint) was recently shared on arXiv. Title Concept Annotation for Intelligent Textbooks Authors Mengdi Wang University of Pittsburgh Hung Chau University of Pittsburgh Khushboo Thaker University of Pittsburgh Peter Brusilovsky University of Pittsburgh Daqing He University of Pittsburgh Source via arXiv Abstract With the increased popularity of electronic textbooks, there is […]
A selection of new, research/data/reference reports available on the open web. Wednesday, May 28, 2020 Federal Criminal Prosecutions Plummet in Wake of COVID-19 (via TRAC/Syracuse University) Projections of Education Statistics to 2028 (via NCES)135 pages; PDF. ||| Abbreviated Version Also Available (35 pages; PDF) University Professors: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the […]
The paper linked to below (preprint) has been accepted for publication by the 24th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2020. Title Requirements Analysis for an Open Research Knowledge Graph Authors Arthur Brack TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany Anett Hoppe TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science […]
From the BBC: The Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation that runs the site, voted on new measures that will be finalised by the end of the year. [Clip] Many, particularly women and members of the LGBTQ community, have complained of abuse and harassment from other editors. [Clip] “We must work together to create a safe, inclusive […]
From the Coronavirus Misinformation Weekly Briefing (via Computational Propaganda Project/OII): Given the evolving nature of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic—and public understanding of the crises—we provide a weekly briefing about the spread of coronavirus information across multiple social media platforms. For the week leading up to 18-05-2020 we find: Of all the junk news that social […]
University of Arizona Libraries Receives $750,000 Mellon Grant to “Support Research and Storytelling on U.S.-Mexico Border”
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Maps, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From the University of Arizona: The University of Arizona has received a $750,000, three-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to integrate library services into data-intensive research to produce open-access humanities scholarship on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. [Clip] The project, “Aligning Library Services with Data-Intensive Humanities Research: Modeling Support for Open Scholarship through Data Storytelling […]
via Columbia University Libraries: Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce the launch of the U.S. Women’s and Girls’ Magazines Web Archive. Developed by librarians within the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation, the archive consists of websites of women’s media that previously existed as print magazines and have long documented women’s thoughts, activities, economic power, sexuality, […]
New Resource: “A Practical Guide to Performing a Library User Data Risk Assessment in Library-Built Systems”
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Reports
|The following guide and worksheet were recently published by the Digital Library Federation’s (DLF) Privacy and Ethics in Technology Working Group. Title A Practical Guide to Performing a Library User Data Risk Assessment in Library-Built Systems Authors Kristin Briney Becky Yoose John Mark Ockerbloom Shea Swauger Source via OSF.io DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/V2C3M From the Introduction and […]