MORE POSTS FROM 2019
NPD Reports “Fifty Shades of Grey” Was the Best-Selling Book of the Decade in the U.S.
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), News, Podcasts, Publishing, Reports, Scholastic
|From NPD: The best-selling book of the past decade in the United States was “Fifty Shades of Grey,” by E.L. James, which sold 15.2 million copies from 2010 through 2019. In fact, the series holds the top three positions on the decade’s top-ten ranking list, with nearly 35 million print and e-book sales, according to […]
From the U.S. Copyright Office/Library of Congress: Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today that she has appointed Maria Strong as Acting Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, effective January 5, 2020. She succeeds Register of Copyrights Karyn A. Temple, who announced last week that she will be leaving the Copyright […]
Roundup (December 18, 2019)
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|Newly Maintained MEDLINE for 2020 MeSH Now Available in PubMed OCLC Partners with Libraries on CONTENTdm Linked Data Pilot Project Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Welcomes Diverse New Set of Members Russian Network Used Buzzfeed’s Community Site to Spread False News Stories (via BBC) What EDGI Archived Before ToxMap and ToxNet Went Offline
University of California Libraries Issues Statement in Support of MIT’s Framework for Publisher Contracts
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|From the University of California Office of Scholarly Communication: The University of California Libraries are pleased to announce their support of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s recently released Framework for Publisher Contracts, intended to guide MIT’s negotiations with academic publishers. In seeking to advance the transformation of the scholarly publishing industry to an open access system, […]
How AI in Libraries Provides Answers on Campus
Academic Libraries, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|From University Business: Student relaxation is not the main function of the University of California, Irvine’s groundbreaking library chatbot. But the managers of ANTswers—the artificial intelligence in the libraries that’s named after the school’s Peter the Anteater mascot—don’t mind that students sometimes ask “him” silly questions, says Danielle Kane, a research librarian who created the tool. […]
The research article (full text, open access) linked below was published today by BMJ. Title Gender Differences in How Scientists Present the Importance of Their Research: Observational Study Authors Marc J Lerchenmueller University of Mannheim Yale University Olav Sorenson Yale University Anupam B Jena Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital National Bureau of Economic Research […]
Congress to Renew Open Textbook Pilot Grant Program with $7 Million Appropriation (via SPARC) Libraries to Offer Ongoing Support for Wikipedia Initiatives at the University of Toronto, Former Wikipedian in Residence Hired as New Open Technology Specialist “National Library of Medicine Posts Request for Information (RFI) to Solicit Public Input on Future Research and Program […]
Report: “Institutional Repository Statistics: Reliable, Consistent Approaches for Canada”
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access
|The report linked to below was released today by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Open Repositories Working Group (ORWG) From CARL: Institutional Repository Statistics: Reliable, Consistent Approaches for Canada was written by Will Roy (Queen’s University), Brian Cameron (Ryerson University), and Tim Ribaric (Brock University), on behalf of the CARL ORWG’s Task Group for […]
The report linked below was published today by RAND. From RAND: In the past two decades, the global population of forcibly displaced people has more than doubled, from 34 million in 1997 to 71 million in 2018. Amid this growing crisis, refugees and the organizations that assist them have turned to technology as an important […]
From Altmetric/Digital Science: The annual Altmetric Top 100 highlights research published in 2019 that has generated significant international online attention and discussion – from patents and public policy documents to mainstream media, blogs, Wikipedia, and social media platforms. The top 10 articles of 2019 are: Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic Neural Talking Head Models (Arxiv, May […]