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Roundup (October 29, 2019)
Associations and Organizations, Frontiers, Funding, News, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing, Reports, Roundup, Video Recordings
|European Commission Publishes First Annual Self-Assessment Reports by Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Twitter and 7 European Trade Associations Under the Code of Practice on Disinformation Media Coverage: EU Warns Big Tech Platforms to do More Against Disinformation (via Politico) French Privacy Watchdog Says Facial Recognition on Trial in High Schools is Illegal (via Politico) Germany: […]
Open Access Latin American Monograph Project Formally Announced, First Phase Makes 200 eBooks Available Open Access
Frontiers, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation, Public Libraries
|From a JSTOR Announcement: A partnership led by the Latin American Research Resources Project (LARRP) in collaboration with the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), JSTOR, and Latin American bookseller García Cambeiro is working toward introducing a sustainable Open Access model for monographs to be developed and supported by the library community. This project […]
Library of Congress: Announcing International Collaborations on Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Frontiers, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|From the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress Labs team is co-hosting a workshop to kick-off international collaborations around digital scholarship. Partners in the UK and the US are coming together to collaborate on the role of digital scholarship in transforming museums and other cultural institutions such as libraries, archives, and galleries. The Arts […]
Cornell Professor Lars Vilhuber Spearheads Change in Economics Journal Policy Europe: OPERAS Receives Funding to Develop its Infrastructure and Services Google is Now Placing More Importance on Original Reporting in the Ranking of News Search Results (via Google Blog) Michigan Publishing and LYRASIS Announce Partnership to Deliver ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection Milestones: Hypothesis Passes 7 […]
Roundup (July 25, 2019)
Data Files, Frontiers, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Roundup, Video Recordings
|Analysis: A Week in the Life of Popular YouTube Channels (via Pew Research) Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Sues Google for $50 Million (via NY Times) ||| Direct to Full Text of Complaint (via CourtListener; 36 pages; PDF) GigaScience and River Valley Technologies Announce Collaboration to Publish Scientific Research in a Rapid and Modular Fashion […]
The Future of Canadian Copyright Looks Bright (Internet Archive) OpenAIRE Introduces Students From Across Europe Into the World of Open Science UC Davis and Frontiers Form Open Access Publishing Agreement United Kingdom: Universities to Trawl Through Students’ Social Media to Look For Suicide Risk, Under New Project (The Telegraph) Theme of 2019 International Open Access […]
Roundup (April 2, 2019)
Awards, Elsevier, Frontiers, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Roundup
|Cambridge U. Press Signs Open Access Agreement with the Bavarian State Library on Behalf Of Higher Education and Research Institutions Across Germany MIT and Frontiers Form Open Access Publishing Agreement NEH Awards Colorado State University $350,000 Grant For Colorado Encyclopedia Stanford University is Cancelling Mendeley Institutional Subscription After Elsevier Stops Supporting Maintenance and Development of Institutional […]
Frontiers and Iowa State University Form Open Access Publishing Agreement Royal Society Publishing OA Membership Programme Signs UMass Amherst Hungarian Electronic Information Service National Programme (EISZ) Signs Read & Publish Agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry
Roundup: Responses/Comments/Feedback From Publishers and Organizations on Implementation and Impact of Plan S
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Frontiers, Libraries, News, Open Access, PLOS, Roundup, Scholarly Communications, Springer Nature
|UPDATE May 16, 2019 DOAJ’s Open Letter To SSHA Communities About Plan S UPDATE April 3, 2019 History Researchers and Plan S (Journal) Compliance (April 2019) (via Royal Historical Society) New Report By Institute For Scientific Information on Plan S Poses Key Questions For the Research Community (via ISI/Web of Science Group/Clarivate Analytics) UPDATE Feb. […]
1. A New Record: 207+ Petabytes of Data Moved Across Internet2 in October 2. KU Libraries Announce Winners of 2018 Shulenburger Award for Innovation and Advocacy in Scholarly Communication 3. Crossref: “Phew – Its Been Quite A Year” (Year-in-Review) 4. Frontiers Launches an AI-Enhanced Peer Review Platform 5. USDA Launches New Program to Create High-Speed Internet e-Connectivity in Rural […]