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The journal article linked below was recently published by the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. Title Free and Open-Source Automated Open Access Preprint Harvesting Authors Jack E. Peplinski Western University Joanne Paterson Western University Courtney Waugh Western University Joshua M Pearce Western University Source Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 10(1), eP14421. DOI: 10.31274/jlsc.14421 […]

From a Creative Commons Blog Post: Exciting news — an initiative of the MHz Foundation, Curationist.org, a free-to-use platform that connects users to over 4.4 million digital artworks and cultural objects, recently relaunched with some amazing new features. On 7 December, they will host a guided experience of the new platform, and we hope to see […]

From The Guardian: The morning that Russian bombs started falling on Kyiv, Oksana Bruy woke up worried about her laptop. Bruy is president of the Ukrainian Library Association and, the night before, she hadn’t quite finished a presentation on the new plans for the Kyiv Polytechnic Library, so she had left her computer open at […]

Mapping Social Media Archiving Initiatives: State of the Art, Trends, and Future Perspective (via IIPC: International Internet Preservation Consortium) Stanford Libraries: Born-digital Collections Opened for Research in 2022 The 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (COP27): Outcomes and Opportunities for Libraries (via IFLA) Self-Organised Network: Does Mastodon Have What It Takes to Become the “Scholarly-Owned Social […]

From the Associated Press: A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts… Direct to Full Text See Also: More “Not Real News” […]

A Letter From the New CEO of Lyrasis, John Wilkin Indianapolis Public Library Down to Finalists For New CEO Meta Sued for Collecting Financial Information Through Tax Filing Websites (via The Markup) SCOAP3 Launches Open Books Program U.S. Copyright Office Concludes Study on Best Edition Requirements

From Virginia Tech University: The Best Paper Prize was awarded to Alex Kinnaman and Alan Munshower of University Libraries at iPRES 2022, the 18th International Conference on Digital Preservation in Glasgow, Scotland. The jury members selected Kinnaman and Munshower’s paper, “Green Goes with Anything: Decreasing Environmental Impact of Digital Libraries at Virginia Tech,” in part because the “topic of this […]

The article linked below was published by Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics. Title Open Access and Its Potential Impact on Public Health – A South African Perspective Authors Adéle Strydom Juanita Mellet Jeanne Van Rensburg Ignatius Viljoen Anastasios Athanasiadis Michael S. Pepper SAMRC Extramural Unit for Stem Cell Research and Therapy, Department of Immunology, Faculty […]

From an Internet Archive Blog Post by Lila Bailey: We are excited to announce the release of our report, “Securing Digital Rights for Libraries: Towards an Affirmative Policy Agenda for a Better Internet,” and the culmination of a months-long process consulting with leading experts from libraries, civil society, and academia regarding libraries’ role in shaping […]