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‘Book-Banning’ Measure Nears Final Passage in Kentucky General Assembly; Jodi Picoult Doubles Down Against Florida Book Bans in New Op-Ed; and More News Headlines
Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, News
|A Plan for Securing IFLA’s Future – February 2023 Update & IFLA: Code of Ethics and Conduct for the Members of the Governing Board” As New York Weighs Library Cuts, Three New Branches Show Their Value (via The NY Times) ‘Book-Banning’ Measure Nears Final Passage in Ky. General Assembly (via WKU) & Everybody’s in a […]
Colabra and scite Partner on the Development of Citations Block; Europeana Publishes 2021 Impact Assessment Report; & More Headlines
Elsevier, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Reports, Springer Nature
|Colabra and scite Partner on the Development of Citations Block Elsevier Announces First Transformative Open Access Agreement with South African National Library and Information Consortium (SANLiC) Europeana Publishes 2021 Impact Assessment Report Springer Nature Announces New Transformative Agreements in Portugal, Slovenia, South Africa and Elsewhere
Research Article: “How Open Access Diamond Journals Comply With Industry Standards Exemplified by Plan S Technical Requirements”
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|The research article linked below was recently published by Science Editing. Title How Open Access Diamond Journals Comply With Industry Standards Exemplified by Plan S Technical Requirements Author Korean Council of Science Editors Source Science Editing 2023;10(1): DOI: 10.6087/kcse.295 Abstract Purpose: This study investigated how well current open access (OA) diamond journals in the Directory […]
Vermont: “College Students Object to All-Digital Library”; “Internet Archive Joins Library Groups at the Supreme Court”; and More News Headlines
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, News
|Creative Commons Open Education Platform Lightning Talks February 2023: Recordings and Slides Now Available (via CC) Georgia State University: Report on the Library’s Survey of Faculty ||| Direct to Full Text Report Internet Archive Joins Library Groups at the Supreme Court National Library Board of Singapore Launches Manga Library at City Square Mall (via IGN) Pen […]
Government Publishing Office (GPO) Director Intends to Adopt Task Force Recommendation on a Digital Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP)
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|From the FDLP/GPO: The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Director Hugh Nathanial Halpern has responded to the Feasibility of a Digital Federal Depository Library Program: Report of the GPO Director’s Task Force. In his response, Director Halpern writes that he broadly intends to adopt the Task Force’s recommendations to move to a digital Federal Depository […]
Minnesota: Over St. Paul Mayor’s Objections, Hamline-Midway Library Added to National Register of Historic Places; Wisconsin: Interim Vice Provosts for UW–Madison Libraries Announced; & More News Headlines
Academic Libraries, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, National Libraries, News
|Association of American Publishers (AAP) Announces Finalists And Category Winners For 2023 PROSE Awards Microsoft Will Let Companies Create Their Own Custom Versions of ChatGPT, Source Says (via CNBC) National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) Shares Ukrainian Books to Aid War Refugees (via LOC) Vermont State University Launching “All-Digital Academic Library” […]
The article linked below (full-text) was recently published Reference Services Review. Title Libraries Advancing Health Equity: A Literature Review Authors Amanda J. Wilson National Library of Medicine Catherine Staley National Library of Medicine Brittney Davis National Library of Medicine Blair Anton National Library of Medicine Source Reference Services Review Ahead-of Print 2 February 2023 DOI: […]
From a NVIDIA Blog Post: For the past 500 years, the National Library of Sweden has collected virtually every word published in Swedish, from priceless medieval manuscripts to present-day pizza menus. Thanks to a centuries-old law that requires a copy of everything published in Swedish to be submitted to the library — also known as […]
NLM: “Next Phase of the NIH Preprint Pilot Launching Soon”
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|From the National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin: Last month, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) announced plans to extend its NIH Preprint Pilot in PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed beyond COVID-19 to encompass all preprints reporting on NIH-funded research. The second phase of the pilot, launching later this month, will include preprints supported by an NIH […]
BookNet Canada Releases Lists of the Most Circulated Books of 2022 in Canadian Public Libraries
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|From a BookNet Canada Blog Post: What books did Canadian library patrons love in 2022? In this blog post, we share lists of the most circulated books in the Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Juvenile & Young Adult subject categories, both overall and from Canadian contributors. The following lists were created based on data from January 3, […]