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Washington University Libraries Awarded Mellon Grant to Preserve Born-Digital Poetry Collections
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Preservation
|From Washington University Libraries: The Washington University Libraries were awarded a two-year grant by the Mellon Foundation to support an exploration of essential questions surrounding the acquisition, discoverability, preservation, and use of born-digital poetry collections. The $250,000 award will enable the University Libraries to develop online resources and systems to process, preserve, and steward the […]
National Endowment For the Humanities (NEH) Announces $41.3 Million For 280 Humanities Projects Nationwide
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|From the National Endowment For the Humanities: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $41.3 million in grants for 280 humanities projects across the country. These grants will support a documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Stanley Nelson on the life, work, and legacy of jazz legend Sun Ra; the creation of a set of linked […]
Conference Paper: “How Library IT Staff Navigate Privacy and Security Challenges and Responsibilities”
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|The paper linked below is being presented this week at the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium in Anaheim, California. Title How Library IT Staff Navigate Privacy and Security Challenges and Responsibilities Authors Alan F. Luo, Noel Warford, and Samuel Dooley University of Maryland Rachel Greenstadt New York University Michelle L. Mazurek University of Maryland Nora McDonald […]
Report: Stanford’s Role in the Quest to Save Video Games
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|From Stanford University: Since the early 2000s, Henry Lowood has led or had an important role in numerous initiatives devoted to the preservation and documentation of virtual worlds, digital games, and interactive simulations. Lowood is also a leading game historian and writer on software preservation, authoring numerous articles and papers that were recently republished in a […]
Digital Collections: Princeton University Library’s LGBTQIA+ Periodical and Ephemera Collection – Now Digitized
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|From the Princeton University Library: The LGBTQIA+ Periodical and Ephemera Collection, which contains over 60 boxes of magazines, zines, ephemera, monographs, and other materials dating from the early 1900s to the present day, is now available in Princeton University Library’s (PUL) digital repository, Digital PUL. It is international in scope, with materials in English, French, Germany, Italian and […]
Preliminary Ruling on Arkansas Library Law Coming By Week’s End, Judge Says; New Biden Rule Would Make Government Websites and Apps More Accessible to People With Disabilities; & More News Headlines
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|AccessNew Biden Rule Would Make Government Websites and Apps More Accessible to People With Disabilities (via AP) ArkansasPreliminary Ruling on Arkansas Library Law Coming By Week’s End, Judge Says (via Arkansas Times) eLifeeLife and PREreview to Enhance the ‘Publish, Review, Curate’ Ecosystem Through Adoption of COAR Notify IrelandOpenAIRE Awarded Contract for the National Open Access […]
Journal Article: “Article Processing Charges For Open Access Journal Publishing: A Review”
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|The article linked below was recently published by Learned Publishing. Title Article Processing Charges For Open Access Journal Publishing: A Review Author Angel Borrego University of Barcelona Source Learned Publishing Volume 36, Issue3 July, 2023 DOI: 10.1002/leap.1558 Abstract Some open access (OA) publishers charge authors fees to make their articles freely available online. This paper reviews […]
The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy How Publishers and Platforms Have Reshaped the Way We Read in the Digital Age (New White Paper From Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy/NYU Law)
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|From the Engelberg Center’s News Release: The Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at NYU Law has released a groundbreaking new white paper, “The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy: How Publishers and Platforms Have Reshaped the Way We Read in the Digital Age.” The paper examines the economic, legal, and social dynamics of ebook licensing and […]
AI-Text Detection Tools are Really Easy to Fool (via Technology Review) Bias in Big Data, Machine Learning and AI: What Lessons for the Digital Humanities? (via DHQ) Flickr Foundation is Building a New Bridge Between Flickr and Wikimedia Commons OAA Report: A Snapshot of the Open Access Landscape in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand In […]
Digitization Projects: University of Hawaii at Mānoa Library Makes Rare 200-year-old Japanese Scrolls Accessible Worldwide
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|From the University of Hawaii Mānoa Library: Students and scholars at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa (and worldwide) can now easily access and view the fine details of rare, hand-painted Japanese scrolls, made possible by UH Mānoa Library’s new state-of-the-art digitization lab. The scrolls titled 鯨魚鑬笑録 (Geigyo ranshōroku), or “A simple overview of whaling” were created […]