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Interview with Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe: “How Will Termination of Research Partnerships with Russia Affect Global Scientific Research”
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From the Illinois News Bureau: Financial, political, commercial and cultural entities quickly cut ties with Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. Some universities also are ending research projects and scientific cooperation with institutions in Russia. Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, the coordinator for information literacy services and instruction and a professor in the University Library at the […]
Oregon St. University Libraries, Portland State University Library, and University of Oregon Libraries Initiate Negotiations With Elsevier
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From Oregon. St. University Library: Oregon State University Libraries, Portland State University Library, and the University of Oregon Libraries are entering into contract negotiations with Elsevier for journal access in 2023, and for up to three years beyond that. For the sake of transparency, we want to reach out to our respective campuses to provide […]
Statements of Solidarity, Support For People of Ukraine by Archive, Library, Publishing, and Other Organizations
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Last Update: 11:30 A.M. Eastern (April 18, 2022) Statement by the President of the Ukrainian Library Association Mechanical Translation via Google Screen Cap of Mechanical Translation via Microsoft Translator Statements of Solidarity and Support (Latest Entry in Bold) ACS Publications Joins Other Publishers in Condemning Invasion of Ukraine American Historical Association: Historians Condemn Russian Invasion […]
Report: “The Giant Plan to Track Diversity in Research Journals”
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From Nature: In the next year, researchers should expect to face a sensitive set of questions whenever they send their papers to journals, and when they review or edit manuscripts. More than 50 publishers representing over 15,000 journals globally are preparing to ask scientists about their race or ethnicity — as well as their gender […]
Report From Germany: “ResearchGate Must Take Down Elsevier Articles, Court Rules”
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UPDATE (March 4, 2022) ResearchGate Dealt a Blow in Copyright Lawsuit (via Nature) Neither side emerged a clear winner in this case, says Nancy Sims, a librarian at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis who specializes in copyright issues. “Each party got some pieces that were very favourable to them and some pieces that were […]
Roundup (February 3, 2022)
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Black Caucus of the American Library Association Stands in Solidarity with REFORMA Against Racism and Sexism (via BCALA) British Library Publishes 2019-2020 Research Report Clarivate Analytics’s New Author Profiles Tool to Include Peer Review Activity (via Nature Index) NERL and Elsevier Continue Agreement and Develop Open Access Pilot (via CRL) Jisc and the National Library […]
Journal Article: “Examining Linguistic Shifts Between Preprints and Publications” & Preprint Similarity Search Application Now Available
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The article linked below was recently published by PLOS Biology. Title Examining Linguistic Shifts Between Preprints and Publications Authors David N. Nicholson Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Vincent Rubinetti Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania University of Colorado School of Medicine Dongbo Hu Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Marvin Thielk […]
Report: “Academic Journal Claims it Fingerprints PDFs for ‘Ransomware,’ Not Surveillance”
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From Motherboard: One of the world’s largest publishers of academic papers said it adds a unique fingerprint to every PDF users download in an attempt to prevent ransomware, not to prevent piracy. Elsevier defended the practice after an independent researcher discovered the existence of the unique fingerprints and shared their findings on Twitter last week. […]
Roundup (January 19, 2022)
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Arizona State University Library: J. Eugene Grigsby Jr. Papers First to Join Recently Established Black Collections Initiative Unit Sales for Print Books in the U.S. Last Year Were the Highest Ever Seen in NPD BookScan (via NPD) UK Universities Near Elsevier Deal After Publisher Drops Price (via THE; Registration Required) The Wikipedia Library: Accessing Free […]
Elsevier, ACS, RSOC, T&F, and Wiley are Collaborating on New Pilot to “Improve Research Discovery and Access”
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UPDATE (August 11): Elsevier Extends (Until Feb. 2023) Joint Pilot with American Chemical Society (ACS), the Royal Society of Chemistry, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley to, “Make Selected Articles From These Publishers Discoverable Through ScienceDirect” —End Update— UPDATE: Analysis and Comment on the News Below by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (via The Scholarly Kitchen) From an […]
