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Tuesday, January 30, 2018
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FOIA Advisory Committee Recommends Updates in Federal Agencies
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by Barbie E. Keiser
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During the quarterly meeting of the Federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee on Jan. 16, the participants weighed in on recommendations from subcommittees in preparation for drafting a final report. The recommendations are the result of research conducted throughout the committee's 2-year term of office (2016-2018) as its members sought practical ways to improve federal agency FOIA operations.
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Library Marketing and Communications Conference Goes Nonprofit; Shares 2018 Info
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The Library Marketing and Communications Conference (LMCC) has been incorporated as the new not-for-profit organization Library Marketing Conference Group (LMCG). Its mission "is to advance, promote and support the knowledge and understanding of marketing and communications among library professionals ..."
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Cochrane Asks for Medical Research Platform Volunteers
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Cochrane is seeking participants for the citizen science platform Cochrane Crowd and partner platforms Mark2Cure and Stall Catchers to help improve medical research and treatment.
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EDP Sciences Pledges Support for I4OC
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EDP Sciences joined the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a collaboration among scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties that aims to promote the availability of open, structured, and separable data on citations.
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Odilo Makes Its Content Available to SimplyE Libraries
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Odilo's digital library of 1.4 million titles (ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, movies, etc.), including content in Spanish and other languages, is now available to SimplyE's partner libraries.
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Thomson Reuters Rolls Out Data Privacy Advisor
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Thomson Reuters launched Data Privacy Advisor, a specialized data privacy research solution that mines the company's global legal and regulatory information and expansive data privacy guidance.
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How to Improve Search Performance with Gap Analysis (2:11)
Intel enterprise taxonomy strategist Melinda Geist and Factor principal Bram Wessel discuss how to refine and improve search rules in this clip from their presentation at Enterprise Search & Discovery 2018.
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