Gary Price, Infodocket, has a warm spot in his huge heart – and a deep respect – for Canadian infopros. He gives us regular updates for Canadian librarians to be their organization’s intelligence officers. His May video is here. Register to talk with him on September 10, 2020. His explanation of ‘what’s the scoop on Tik Tok’ is here.
TOOLS AND RESOURCES
5000 Rare And Unique Maps are Now Available Online From Australian
LC for Robots: Library of Congress Launching a Series of Jupyter Notebooks
Library of Congress Announces Release of North Korean Serials Digital Collection
New From CSAIL: Introdcing scrAPIr: “Searching Websites the Way You Want”;
University of Toronto’s Myanmar Manuscript Digital Library Brings Rare
Manuscripts and Artefacts to Scholars Around the World
“U.S. Women’s and Girls’ Magazines Web Archive”
PRESENTATIONS AND WEBINARS
Webinar: “OER Discoverability and Sharing”
Webinar: “Plan S: Taking Stock of the Current Situation and New Developments”
ARTICLES, PREPRINTS, REPORTS, and WORKING PAPERS
“A Bibliographic Scan of Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure”
“A Practical Guide to Performing a Library User Data Risk Assessment
Are Women Publishing Less During the Pandemic? Here’s What the Data Say”
Concept Annotation for Intelligent Textbooks
DMCA: U.S. Copyright Office Releases Section 512 Report
Higher Education: “A Profile of Humanities Departments Pre-Pandemic”
“How COVID-19 is Changing the World: A Statistical Perspective”
“Large-Scale Comparison of Bibliographic Data Sources: Scopus, Web of
Science, Dimensions, Crossref, and Microsoft Academic” (Preprint)
“Requirements Analysis for an Open Research Knowledge Graph” (Preprint)
“The Condition of Education in the United States 2020”
“Toward Easy Deposit: Lowering the Barriers of Green Open Access with
Data Integration and Automation”
“The TRUST Principles for Digital Repositories”
UC Berkeley Library Makes it Easier to Digitize Collections
Responsibly with Release of “Responsible Access Workflows” Document
NEWS
cOAlition S Announces Price Transparency Requirements
DORA Announces 5 Design Principles to Help Institutions Improve
EarthArXiv Announces New Partnership with California Digital Library
to Host Earth Sciences Preprint Service
IFLA Signs on to ICOLC Statement on Resource Access During COVID-19,
Shares Principles for Associations in Negotiations
Ithaka S+R is Launching Two Projects on Supporting Data Work
Milestones: Open Citations Index (COCI) Passes 700 Million Citations
Netherlands: Dutch Research Institutions and Elsevier Announce
National “Open Science” Deal that Includes OA Publishing and Reading
Preprints and the Media: A Change to How PLOS Handles Press For Papers
Previously Posted as Preprints
Project MUSE Will Freeze Journal Collection Prices for 2021
Springer Nature Becomes Largest Research Publisher to Sign DORA Principles
Springer Nature Publishes 1000th Open Access Book
Switzerland: Swiss Universities and Elsevier Announce a Transformative
Pilot Agreement Combining Reading and Publishing
University of Arizona Libraries Receives $750,000 Mellon Grant to
“Support Research and Storytelling on U.S.-Mexico Border”
Webinar Report: RLUK Launches a Manifesto For The Digital Shift In
“Wikipedia Sets New Rule to Combat ‘Toxic Behaviour’”
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