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From the Cornell University Library: When companies go toe to toe with labor unions, they call people like Leonard C. Scott, a former human resource and labor relations executive who also served as a consultant specializing in fighting unions and preventing them from forming in the first place. Cornell University Library’s Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation […]

The following preprint was posted today (October 30, 2020) on bioRxiv. Title Assessment of Transparency Indicators Across the Biomedical Literature: How Open is Open? Authors Stylianos Serghiou Google Despina G Contopoulos-Ioannidis Stanford University Kevin W Boyack Sci-Tech Strategies Nico Riede Berlin Insitute of Health Joshua David Wallach Yale School of Public Health John P. A. […]

Democratizing Data Reports Released by EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (via Environmental Data & Governance Initiative) How Wikipedia is Preparing For The 2020 U.S. Election (via Down the Rabbit Hole) Wiley’s International Journal of Quantum Chemistry is First Scholarly Publication to Feature Atypon’s Interactive Figures Technology

From SPARC Europe: We see a diverse, interconnected, open, professional and viable, OS infrastructure ecosystem in Europe on solid ground; one that is worth investing in. At the same time, this ecosystem — still developing — faces a range of issues that challenge its path to a more open and sustainable future.” This is a […]

From DataCite: DataCite and the FREYA project partners are proud to announce the official launch of DataCite Commons today. DataCite Commons is the web interface to explore the PID Graph, formed by the publications, datasets, research software, and other research outputs generated by researchers working at research institutions and supported by grant funding (???). The […]

From the JLOE (via Illinois Open Publishing Network) Web Site: The Journal of Library Outreach & Engagement (JLOE) is the premier peer-reviewed, open access interdisciplinary journal to advance library outreach and engagement. JLOE provides a platform to disseminate original research that examines public and community engagement initiatives and stimulates a forum to discuss the methodological […]

From ACRL: ACRL announces the publication of 2019 Academic Library Trends and Statistics [fee-based] the latest in a series of annual publications that describe the collections, staffing, expenditures, and service activities of academic libraries in all Carnegie classifications. [Clip] The 2019 data show that library expenditures for collection materials averaged $5.6 million for doctoral degree-granting […]

From the University of Pittsburgh: The University Library System (ULS) at the University of Pittsburgh has acquired the archive of the late playwright and Pittsburgh native son August Wilson, best known for his unprecedented American Century Cycle—10 plays that convey the Black experience in each decade of the 20th century. All 10 of the plays […]

67 Bricks Forms New Partnership with University Of Michigan Press Library Association of Ireland Backs Investigation Into Ebook Publishing and Calls on Irish Government to Take Action (via Campaign to Investigate the Academic eBook Market) Project Muse Announces New Subjects, Additional Publishers For 2021 Book Collections