MORE POSTS FROM 2019
From The Bookseller: Latest figures from The Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy (CIPFA) show library loans are down 43% in the last decade in England, with libraries still in “a terrible state” as repeated schemes to turn around the service fail, campaigner Tim Coates has said. [Clip] Analysing the full figures, which are not […]
UC Davis Library Receives Gift to Preserve Work of One of History’s Top Viticulturists
Archives and Special Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|From UC Davis Library: The UC Davis Library announced today that it received a $200,000 gift from the owners of Larkmead Vineyards, Cameron “Cam” Baker and Kate Solari Baker, to preserve the work of one of California’s most influential viticulture researchers, the late Professor Emeritus Harold Olmo. Drawing of Grape Seed (Harold Paul Olmo Papers, […]
In an Open Letter, Springer Nature Requests Coalition S Not “Lose the Opportunity Transformative Journals Offer”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, News, Publishing, Springer Nature
|UPDATED Dec. 17, 2019 Coalition S has posted a response to the Springer Nature (below). The response is available here. From Springer Nature: …Springer Nature is appealing to cOAlition S in an open letter not to lose the opportunity Transformative Journals offer to speed up the transition to OA. Unless changes are made to the […]
A New Issue of Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) is Now Available Online; Vol 38 No 4 Published Today
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, New Issue, News
|A new issue of Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) is now available online. Vol 38 No 4 (2019) was published today. ITAL is a peer-reviewed journal published quarterly by the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of ALA. Direct to All Items and Articles Items and Articles Published in Vol 38 No 4 […]
From the San Diego Union Tribune: Decades from now, when historians try to make sense of how the U.S. government treated detained migrants, they will be able to hear directly from the men and women in federal immigration detention centers. At least that’s the hope of Lisa Lamont, head librarian at San Diego State University […]
The following research article was published today by Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. Title Library Supported Open Access Funds: Criteria, Impact, and Viability Authors Amanda B. Click American University Rachel Borchardt American University Source Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Vol 14 No 4 (2019) DOI: 10.18438/eblip29623 Abstract Objective This study analyzes scholarly publications […]
From “Rock & Roll” to “War and Peace in the Nuclear Age”, The American Archive of Public Broadcasting Announces Four New Special Collections to Stream Online
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Interviews, News
|Ed. Note: As the year comes to a close we want to once again give a shoutout to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, an infoDOCKET favorite resource. The work they’re doing and the resources AAPB provides access to are, as always, important, impressive, and interesting. Well done AAPB!!! From the AAPB The American Archive […]
Video: Society for Scholarly Publishing New Directions 2019 Seminar Sessions Now Available to View Online
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Open Access, PLOS, Publishing
|From SSP: The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) hosted our third annual New Directions seminar on October 2 and 3 at the 20F Conference Center in Washington DC earlier this year. With a record number of in-person as well as virtual attendees, the theme Scholarly Publishing Models “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” proved to […]
Combatting Misinformation on Instagram (via Facebook) Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Publishes Work Plan For 2020 7 pages; PDF. Final 2020 Spending Bill is Kind to U.S. Research (via Science) OCLC Partners with Third Iron to Offer Seamless Journal Access And Browsing Experience The Public Domain Line is Moving Again – One Year Later
The following article was recently published by Digital Humanities Quarterly. Title Digital Collaborations: A Survey Analysis of Digital Humanities Partnerships Between Librarians and Other Academics Authors Jessica Wagner Webster Baruch College, City University of New York Source DHQ (Digital Humanities Quarterly) Volume 13 Number 4 Abstract The present study will investigate the perceptions of information professionals about their […]