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Milestones: Project MUSE Launches Virtual 25th Anniversary Celebration, Includes a Curated Selection of Articles on Digital Humanities
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|From a Project MUSE Announcement: How do you celebrate a milestone anniversary during a pandemic? If you are Project MUSE, the massive online collection of humanities and social sciences content administered by Johns Hopkins University Press, you cancel in-person celebrations and postpone the launch of an online tribute to 25 years of innovation and service. […]
Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) Launches to Promote Discovery of Research, New Cross-Publisher Initiative Calls for Unrestricted Availability of Abstracts
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|From Today’s I4OA Launch Announcement: The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) calls on all scholarly publishers to open the abstracts of their publications, and specifically to distribute them through Crossref, in order to facilitate large-scale access and promote discovery of critical research. I4OA—a collaboration between scholarly publishers, academic librarians, researchers, infrastructure providers and other stakeholders—will […]
From the In Custodia Legis Blog: We are excited to start adding the volumes of the Congressional Record (Bound Edition) (also referred to as the “Bound Congressional Record”) to Congress.gov. If you’re not familiar with the Congressional Record, it is a record of the debate and proceedings that occur on the floor of Congress. It is […]
New From National Science Foundation (NSF): “Dear Colleague Letter: Open Science for Research Data”
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|From the National Science Foundation: March 27, 2020 Dear Colleague: Open science fuels scientific discovery and economic gain by making the products of Federally funded research more easily accessible and usable. Open science can also improve scientific rigor by directly linking the products of research (data and software) to their associated publications, making it easier […]
Roundup: News and Reports From Brill Publishing, Library Publishing Coalition, and CLIR
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|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 […]
Symposium Proceedings: “Critical Roles for Libraries in Today’s Research Enterprise”
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|The “Critical Roles for Libraries in Today’s Research Enterprise” symposium took place in Washington, DC on December 11, 2019. From the Introduction by Tom Hickerson: Today many academic libraries are seeking ways to better align with current research practice and to engage as vital partners in campus research. This is particularly necessary in an age […]
Roundup (February 4, 2020)
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|ACS Publications Signs Agreement with ORCID To Recognize ACS Reviewers EFF Ends Censorship Against PETA on Public University’s Facebook Page (via Electronic Frontier Foundation) Georgia: GALILEO Online Portal Releases Findings From 2019 Annual Survey Google Parent Tests Free Tool to Help Journalists Spot Doctored Photographs (via The Hill) National Archives is Looking For Some More […]
ACM Signs New Transformative Open Access Agreements with MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Iowa State, and California Digital Library
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|UPDATED February 24, 2020 MIT Framework For Publisher Contracts Yields New Open-Access Model (via MIT Libraries) UPDATED February 10, 2020: ACM’s New Open Access Agreements: A Q&A with Scott Delman (via SK) –END UPDATE– From the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM): ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, entered into transformative open access agreements with several of […]
EveryCRSReport provides direct access to a number of Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports on the impeachment process and impeachment history. The links below provide direct access to the most current version (in multiple formats) of several reports. If/when these reports are updated the new version will be available at these urls along with direct access […]
Research Article (Preprint): “The Archives Unleashed Project: Technology, Process, and Community to Improve Scholarly Access to Web Archives”
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|The preprint linked to below was recently shared on arXiv. Title The Archives Unleashed Project: Technology, Process, and Community to Improve Scholarly Access to Web Archives Authors Nick Ruest York University Jimmy Lin University of Waterloo Ian Milligan University of Waterloo Samantha Fritz University of Waterloo Source via arXiv Abstract The Archives Unleashed project aims […]