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Roundup: News and Reports From Brill Publishing, Library Publishing Coalition, and CLIR
Archives and Special Collections, Conference Presentations, Frontiers, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Reports, Roundup
|Conference Presentations From Archives, Access and AI; London, Jan 15-17, 2020 Duke University and Frontiers Form Open Access Publishing Agreement Dutch Universities and Brill Reach Transformative Agreement Library Publishing Coalition Releases Quarterly Update Nature Will Publish Peer Review Reports as a Trial (via Nature) OverDrive Publicly Shares Founder & CEO Steve Potash’s Annual Message to Library […]
Book Chapter DOIs Emerge as a New Key Tool In Research Discovery (via ScienceOpen) Cengage and McGraw-Hill Extend Merger Deadline (via The Bookseller) CORE Update For October to December 2019 Facebook Settles Facial Recognition Lawsuit For $550 Million (via cyberscoop) Frontiers Announces Endorsement of NISO Transfer Code of Practice New Edition of Apple Maps Launches […]
Roundup (January 28, 2020)
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Frontiers, Gale, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Roundup
|ARL Responds to US Office of Science and Technology Policy Request for Information on American Research Environment Cambridge University Press Strikes First Major Read and Publish Agreement in Japan Conference Presentation: Technical Integration Of Data Repositories Status and Challenges Dimensions Releases Datasets as a New Content Source For All Users LYRASIS Announces 2020 Research Themes […]
A Group of Open Access Publishers and Others Send Letter to President Trump Supporting Proposed White House Open Access Policy
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Frontiers, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, PLOS, Publishing
|From the Letter (via Ubiquity Press) ||| via California Digital Library ||| via PLOS We, the undersigned organizations, represent leading publishers and non-profit scientific and scholarly societies registered in the United States, or with employees in the United States. We write to you in support of the proposed Administration policy that would mandate immediate open […]
From The NY Times: The Smithsonian Institution is teaming up with IDW Publishing on a series of educational graphic books that will start to be released this fall. [Clip] The line will also include coloring books for all ages and picture books for young readers. This is not the first time the Smithsonian has been involved with graphic novels. […]
Roundup (December 19, 2019)
Frontiers, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Roundup
|Frontiers and medRxiv Integration Announced Landscape of Open Science in Japan (via CHORUS) National Library of Greece Gives Users Access to Premium Digital Content (via Kathimerini) Research Article: Bing’s Top Search Results Contain an Alarming Amount of Disinformation (via Stanford Internet Observatory) Report: 267 Million Facebook Users Ids and Phone Numbers Exposed Online (via Comparitech) […]
From JISC and/or Frontiers Researchers from 180 UK universities can now benefit from a national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers, the second largest fully open access publisher in the UK. This landmark deal provides a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing for researchers in the UK, who publish 7% of the world’s […]
Roundup (November 22, 2019)
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Frontiers, Libraries, News, PLOS, Roundup
|ACRL, ALA, and ARL Extend Joint Advisory Task Force on IPEDS Academic Libraries Component Definitions Frontiers in Medical Technology Has Launched Is PLOS Running Out of Time? Financial Statements Suggest Urgency to Innovate (via The Scholarly Kitchen) Results of ORCID’s 2020 Board Election Now Available
Bookshare Ireland Launches to Increase Educational Equity for Irish Students (via Benetech) Frontiers Partners With Journal Policy Database TRANSPOSE Louisiana State University Libraries Launches Mobile Digitization Lab
From the Harry Ransom Center/U. of Texas at Austin: Thousands of digitized records reflecting major historical events of the 20th century related to PEN International, a global writers’ organization, are available online beginning this month. A project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and completed by the Harry Ransom Center at The […]