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New Research Tools: “White House, NOAA & DOI Launch Climate Hazard Assessment Website”
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, Maps, News, Patrons and Users, Reports
|From Government Executive: The White House, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Department of the Interior unveiled a new geospatial website developed by Esri in an effort to inform communities about real-time climate-related hazards. Learn More, Read the Complete Article More From NOAA: The Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation (CMRA) portal, an easily accessible and interactive geospatial website, […]
From an OhioLINK Announcement: OhioLINK has completed a strategic planning process that will guide the statewide academic library consortium’s work with members through the next three to five years. The Strategic Framework, based on feedback gathered from OhioLINK members, positions the organization to support its 117 member libraries as they navigate the changing post-pandemic higher education […]
McGill University Library Map Collection (About 22,000 Digitized Maps) Now Publicly Available on Canadiana
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, Maps, News, Open Access
|From the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN): CRKN is pleased to announce that approximately 22,000 digitized Canadian maps have been added to the Canadiana Collection in partnership with McGill University Library. In addition to being publicly accessible on Canadiana.ca, the digitized maps will also be preserved in the Canadiana Trustworthy Digital Repository (TDR). These digital […]
OCLC Officially Announces the Launch of a “Redesigned and Reimagined” WorldCat.org
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Maps, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|Update: OCLC has posted two announcements about today’s release of the new WorldCat.org. Both are posted and linked below. The first release targets library users. After that, you’ll find a release aimed at the library/librarian community. Finally, at the very bottom of this post you’ll find a video tour of the new WorldCat.org that was […]
From a NOAA News Release: A comprehensive update to NOAA’s Billion Dollar Disasters mapping tool now includes U.S. census tract data – providing many users with local community-level awareness of hazard risk, exposure and vulnerability across more than 100 combinations of weather and climate hazards. The enhanced interactive maps from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental […]
Research Tools: New Interactive Map and Timeline Added to Chronicling America
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Maps, News, Patrons and Users
|From the Headlines and Heroes Blog/Library of Congress: Chronicling America* users can now browse the collection’s thousands of digitized historical newspapers using an interactive map and timeline recently launched by the Library of Congress. The new “Exploring Chronicling America Newspapers” application dynamically maps publication locations of over 3,000 digitized newspapers currently available in the Chronicling […]
Announcing SPARC’s Knowledge Equity Discussion Series How AI Could Help Make Wikipedia Entries More Accurate (via Meta) Now Available: Recording and Slides for IFLA ARL Webinar Re: Research Ethics scite Partners With Springer Nature for Pilot on Research Solutions Hub Scopus Now Includes Preprint Content From Two Additional Preprint Servers: TechRxiv and Research Square Technology […]
Apple Maps Gets More Detailed 3D Data for Three More Countries (via Apple Insider) Celebrating the United States’ 40 Millionth Copyright Registration (via USCO) DOAJ Freezes Supporter Rates for 2023 (via DOAJ) Improving Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Academia (via Research Integrity and Peer Review) “Research Integrity: Creating and Supporting Trust in Research” is 2022 […]
Research Tools: US Census Releases Major Updates to “My Community Explorer”
Data Files, Interactive Tools, Maps, News, Patrons and Users
|From the US Census: Today the U.S. Census Bureau announced the release of major updates to the data explorer tool, My Community Explorer (MCE). MCE is an interactive, map-based tool that highlights demographic and socioeconomic data. These data measure inequality and help inform data-based solutions. This tool is designed to help users identify underserved communities […]
From Fast Company: A new tool from Google Earth Engine and the nonprofit World Resources Institute pulls from satellite data to build detailed maps in near real time. Called Dynamic World, it zooms in on the planet in 10-by-10-meter squares from satellite images collected every two to five days. The program uses artificial intelligence to […]