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Elsevier Deal With France Disappoints Open-Access Advocates (via Science) In a Web Archives Frame of Mind: Improving Access and Describing the Collections (via The Signal/LOC) Open Science Strategy: TU Delft Aims at the Pole Position for the Open Era Tracking the Politics of US Privacy Legislation (via IAPP) Viet Nam: Modern University Libraries Serve Students’ […]

The following full text research article (preprint) is scheduled for publication in an upcoming issue (Vol. 20 No. 1) of portal: Libraries and the Academy published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Title E-Book Information Behaviors and Formats Among Graduate Students in Information Sciences Authors Daniel G. Tracy University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Source portal: Libraries and the […]

From the Associated Press: History scholars are getting a new trove of priceless presidential papers to pore over at Southern California’s Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens. The Huntington announced Thursday that 340 artifacts focusing on presidential administrations from the 18th to the 20th centuries are being donated by L. Dennis and Susan R. […]

From the University of Kentucky: This fall, the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center launched a custom digital library for the John C. Wyatt Lexington Herald-Leader (LHL) photographs collection. The site provides access to more than 13,000 digitized images with advanced search features, location mapping, an integrated collection guide viewer and more. The LHL collection consists […]

From an AIMS Blog Post: As of December 2019, the number of AGRIS multilingual bibliographic records has reached 10,924,047 records! Almost 700,000 new records have been added, of which: 30,464 coming from Agricola of the United States National Agricultural Library 654,984 from more than 30 data providers The next AGRIS data release will take place in early January 2020. AGRIS includes […]

From MIT: The MIT Libraries, working with Kennedy & Violich Architecture (KVA), have developed the design for the upcoming Hayden Library renovation. As seen in architectural concept renderings, the new design accommodates the library’s multiple uses with dynamic areas for collaboration, research, and community-building, as well as quiet study. Reopening in fall 2020, the renovated library will […]

From ALA: Choice today announced the publication of the fifth in a series of white papers designed to provide actionable intelligence around topics of importance to the academic library community. This paper, “Research Data Services in Academic Libraries: Where are We Today?”, offers a unique opportunity to revisit and re-examine findings from a 2012 ACRL […]

The research article and the media coverage of it linked to below were published today by PeerJ and Science. Title Peer Reviews Disproportionately Harm Underrepresented Groups in STEM Authors Nyssa J. Silbiger California State University, Northridge Amber D. Stubler Occidental College Source PeerJ 7:e8247 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8247 Abstract Background Peer reviewed research is paramount to the advancement of […]

From Cornell Chronicle: When two Cornell University Library staffers heard comedian Conan O’Brien talk in his podcast about a letter he sent to famed author E.B. White nearly 40 years ago, they had a thought: What if that note from the then-16-year-old O’Brien was among the 25,000 letters in the library’s E.B. White Collection? Maureen […]