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The following research article (preprint) recently became available on arXiv. Title On the Persistence of Persistent Identifiers of the Scholarly Web Authors Martin Klein Los Alamos National Laboratory Lyudmila Balakireva Los Alamos National Laboratory Source via arXiv Abstract Scholarly resources, just like any other resources on the web, are subject to reference rot as they […]

The slides linked to below were presented at the 2020 ER&L conference*. Title Simplifying Content Delivery with InstantILL: Integrating Link Resolvers, OA Searching, and Interlibrary Loan Requesting Presenters Tina Baich IUPUI University Library Mike Paxton IUPUI University Library Presented at ER&L Conference, March 2020 Source via IUPUI ScholarWorks Abstract Want to help users discover library AND […]

From the CRS Report Summary (R46307): Access to high-speed internet, known as broadband, is becoming increasingly essential to daily life as more applications and activities move online. This has become particularly apparent during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as employers in some sectors transitioned their workers from on-site work to telework and schools migrated their students […]

From NEH:  The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $22.2 million in grants for 224 humanities projects across the country. These grants will enable the production of a 90-minute documentary on singer and civil rights pioneer Marian Anderson, support a Norman Rockwell Museum exhibition on Rockwell’s Four Freedoms series, and bolster the digital infrastructure of the Walt […]

From LC: Poisoned Pen Press, the mystery imprint of leading independent publisher Sourcebooks, worked closely with the National Library Service (NLS) for the Blind and Print Disabled at the Library of Congress to ensure a simultaneous print and braille release of “That Affair Next Door” by Anna Katharine Green, the debut title in the new […]

From KU: The Open Research Community (ORC), an interactive platform which launched today after a test phase, offers users worldwide the opportunity to expand their professional networks on the topics of Open Access (OA), Open Research and Open Science. In addition to blog posts and up-to-date information in the form of policy papers and research […]

Answering the Call: Academic Health Sciences Libraries and COVID-19 (via NLM) Building and Reconnecting MIT in Minecraft (via MIT News) COVID-19 Broadband Usage “Reaching a Plateau,” Says OPENVAULT New App from the University of Cambridge Collects the Sounds of COVID-19 Patricia Flatley. Brennan, Director, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Inducted into Medical […]

From the Institute of Museum and Library Services: The Institute of Museum and Library Services today announced the first of a number of critical measures to aid museums, libraries, and communities across the nation in response to COVID-19. The new guidelines outline how institutions with open IMLS grants may adapt their existing fund balances to […]

From SciELO: The SciELO Program has launched the SciELO Preprints server – http://preprints.scielo.org – with the aim of accelerating the availability of research articles and other scientific communications before, or in parallel with, their evaluation and validation by scientific journals through the peer review process. Although open to all thematic areas, SciELO Preprints will focus on immediately serving communications related […]