Gale Gathers Primary Sources on Political Extremists

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NewsBreaks

Gale Gathers Primary Sources on Political Extremists

by Nancy K. Herther

Political extremists have existed throughout history, but without access to primary documents, being able to understand their reasoning, the work of their groups, and their movements was left to coverage in recorded histories or biographies--until recently.

Weekly News Digests

NAMLE's Media Literacy Week Will Showcase the Importance of Media Literacy Education

The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) announced that the 4th annual U.S. Media Literacy Week (#MediaLitWk) will be held Nov. 5-9, 2018.

Cengage and Authors Resolve Their Dispute

Cengage reached a resolution with the two authors who had filed a U.S.-based federal class action lawsuit against the company. They had argued that the Cengage Unlimited subscription service violated their publication contracts and would reduce their royalty incomes.

Clarivate Analytics and UNSILO Work on AI for Scholarly Publishing

Clarivate Analytics joined forces with UNSILO to pilot AI capabilities in Clarivate Analytics' ScholarOne submission and review system.

ACS and Elsevier Sue ResearchGate for Copyright Infringement

'This lawsuit focuses on ResearchGate's intentional misconduct vis-a-vis its online file-sharing / download service, where the dissemination of unauthorized copies of PJAs [published journal articles] constitutes an enormous infringement of the copyrights owned by ACS, Elsevier and other journal publishers.'

Riffyn Gives Nonprofits Free Access to Its Scientific Development Environment

Experiment design and data analytics software company Riffyn introduced Riffyn Open Access, which gives any member of a nonprofit organization free use of its Scientific Development Environment (SDE).

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Pew Research Center Updates

by Brandi Scardilli

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Is Bias Unavoidable in Enterprise Search? (2:07)

Synthexis President Sue Feldman discusses the preventability (or non-preventability) of bias in search in this clip from the security, privacy, and ethics panel at Enterprise Search & Discovery 2018.

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Conference Connection

CONFERENCE CALENDAR

Dec. 6–9, The 10th Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2018)
Place: Bangalore, India
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing committee
URL: fire.irsi.res.in/fire/2018/home

Dec. 10–12, The 11th International Conference on Informatics and Systems (INFOS 2018)
Place: Cairo, Egypt
Sponsor/Organizer: Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University
URL: infos.cu.edu.eg/2018

Dec. 12, The Library of the Future: Inside & Out (NISO Virtual Conference)
Place: Online only
Sponsor/Organizer: National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
URL: niso.org/events/2018/12/library-future-inside-out

Dec. 17–19, 8th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT'18)
Place: Kochi, India
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing committee
URL: mirlabs.org/wict18

Jan. 15–16, Academic Publishing in Europe (APE 2019)
Place: Berlin, Germany
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing committee
URL: ape2019.eu

Jan. 19–21, 2019 International Conference on Library and Information Science (LIS 2019)
Place: Sapporo, Japan
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing committee
URL: iconlis.org

Jan. 22–24, International BOBCATSSS Conference 2019
Place: Osijek, Croatia
Sponsor/Organizer: Osijek University, Croatia; Linnaeus University, Sweden; Uppsala University, Sweden; The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
URL: bobcatsss2019.ffos.hr/about.html

Jan. 25–29, 2019 ALA Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits
Place: Seattle, Wa.
Sponsor/Organizer: American Library Association (ALA)
URL: ala.org/conferencesevents/midwinter-meeting

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