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From Florida State University: The increasing frequency of natural catastrophes and their uneven impact on vulnerable populations calls for the development of disaster Resiliency Hubs. Now, through a grant from the National Science Foundation, a multidisciplinary team of Florida State University researchers is looking to utilize a commonly underrecognized space in disaster response: public libraries. […]

Conservative Parents are Trying to Ban #Books in Kansas City Schools. Students Won’t Let Them. (via @KCUR) EDUCAUSE QuickPoll Results: XR Technology (via EDUCAUSE Review) Investor Group Acquires Open Road Integrated Media ||| Coverage From Publishing Perspectives North American Museums Face a Reckoning on Indigenous Rights (via The Art Newspaper) Pew Research Releases an Updated […]

From the National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin: As part of the efforts of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to transform and accelerate biomedical discovery and improve health and health care, we are transitioning to automated MeSH indexing of MEDLINE citations in PubMed. Automated indexing will provide users with timely access to MeSH indexed […]

From a Joint News Release: Global research and education leader Wiley today announced the acquisition of Knowledge Unlatched, an innovator in online open access solutions. The open access movement promises to make more research broadly available to democratize information and to accelerate academic discovery. As the market for open access publishing grows, libraries and publishers […]

Announcing the Results of ORCID’s 2022 Board Election (via ORCID) arXiv Executive director Eleonora Presani to Step Down (via arXiv) Note: Presani was Appointed as arXiv’s First Exec. Director on March  16 2020 Eight Open GLAM Case Studies Selected: Discover the Successful Projects and Their Leaders! (via Creative Commons) Semantic Scholar API Adds New Functionality […]

From Ithaka S+R: As “big data” has moved from the margins to the center of a growing number of academic disciplines, how well are universities, funders, and publishers supporting researchers? To better understand how big data research is pursued in academic contexts, Ithaka S+R partnered with librarians at more than 20 colleges and universities, interviewing […]

The article linked below was published today by Insights. Title More Readers in More Places: The Benefits of Open Access For Scholarly Books Authors Cameron Neylon Curtin University Alkim Ozaygen Curtin University Lucy Montgomery Curtin University Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang Curtin University Ros Pyne Springer Nature Mithu Lucraft Springer Nature Christina Emery Springer Nature Source Insights […]

From ReMix: (Stanford Libraries Newsletter): Stanford Libraries has launched the Black Graphic Design History Collections Initiative, an endeavor to bring together the archives of Black, Indigenous, and People-of-Color luminaries working in North America in the field of graphic design, to document and celebrate the contributions of these artists, to make Stanford a research destination for […]

From the Authors Alliance: In today’s post, as a part of our series of open access success stories that spotlight noteworthy openly accessible books and their authors, we’re featuring Peter Kaufman of MIT Open Learning. Kaufman made his new book, The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge, available for free under a CC-BY […]