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From a Coalition Publica Announcement: Metadata is an essential aspect of academic publishing. It ensures accurate identification of a journal’s content and can improve discoverability, access, dissemination, preservation, and, arguably, research impact.  Given metadata’s important role in digital scholarly publishing, Coalition Publica is pleased to announce the publication of two important reports prepared by its […]

Note: We first mentioned PrivaSeer in an infoDOCKET post on April 25, 2020. From Penn State University: A search engine that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to “read” through millions of online documents could help privacy researchers find ones that are related to online privacy. The researchers who designed the search engine suggest it could be […]

From the Canadian Press (via CTV) Researchers say recent service cuts at Canada’s national archives are making their work — already hampered by COVID-19 — even more challenging. In a letter to Library and Archives Canada, the Canadian Historical Association urges the institution to reconsider reductions that have left its archival reading room open just […]

From an ARL Post by Jerrell Jones: Visible by months of diligent program formation, intentional speaker selection, and a highly engaged participant group. The theme of talent management through diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging provided an impetus for discussions that planted seeds for real change. Diverse academic library staff and the patrons they serve will […]

From an International Science Council Blog Post: \July 2021 saw the 2nd Open Science Conference delivered by the United Nations Department of Global Communications, Dag Hammarskjöld Library, and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The conference, “From Tackling the Pandemic to Addressing Climate Change”, saw policymakers, intergovernmental organizations, librarians, publishers, and research practitioners engage […]

From an Internet Archive Blog Post by Brewster Kahle, Founder, Internet Archive: Universal Access to All Knowledge has been the dream for millennia, from the Library of Alexandria on forward. The idea is that if you’re curious enough to want to know something, that you can get access to that information. That was the promise […]

From KSL-TV (Salt Lake City): The struggles of refugees around the world have captured headlines recently due to the plight of the Afghan people. A Global Refugee Archive launched today at Brigham Young University by a nonprofit plans to preserve those stories. This is a digital archive to be housed at the Harold B. Lee Library […]

China is Reinventing the Way The World Reads: Millions of oVerseas Fans are Reading Translated Chinese Web Novels, Making Them the Country’s Most Successful Cultural Export” (via Protocol) FTC Staff Report Finds Many Internet Service Providers Collect Troves of Personal Data, Users Have Few Options to Restrict Use (via Federal Trade Commission) Brewster Kahle: “I […]

Promoting and Nurturing Interactions with Open Access Books: Strategies for Publishers and Authors was published online this week by COPIM. An introductory blog post is available. From the Report’s Introduction: This report explores how publishers and authors can promote, nurture, and facilitate interaction with openly available books. Open access (obviously) opens up scholarship, but it also […]