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NewsBreaks

by Kelly LeBlanc

Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) reached its 1-year anniversary on May 25, 2019. At the start of its second year, we can now reflect on the GDPR with a new set of questions: Did the mission, motive, and compliance parameters of the GDPR serve a greater purpose? Has data culture changed? What lessons have we learned?

Weekly News Digests

ProQuest Debuts First Immersive Experiences for Academic Streaming Video

ProQuest launched virtual reality (VR) and 360-degree viewing functionality for certain videos on its search platform. ...

SAGE Unveils Social Science Thesaurus

SAGE created a Terminology Service--featuring 61,000-plus concepts--to help researchers understand and explore key ideas.

Web of Science Highlights Journal Citation Reports Data

The Web of Science Group, part of Clarivate Analytics, rolled out the 2019 update to its annual Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

New Gale Archive Looks at Public Health in 20th-Century America

Gale announced Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970, the first installment of its Public Health Archives series.

Springer Nature Video Introduces Its Collections

Beginning in July, Springer Nature Video will offer collections of educational, standalone, peer-reviewed videos on SpringerLink covering medicine and professional and applied computing.

NewsLink Spotlight

A New Take on the U.S. Constitution

by Brandi Scardilli

What the Constitution Means to Me, a 100-minute play written by and starring Heidi Schreck, opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater on March 31, 2019. ... Schreck [says] that the play explores how her female relatives' lives "had been shaped by this document, circumscribed by this document, and, in some ways, harmed by this document."

3 Special Syntax Tips for Searching Twitter (2:51)

ResearchBuzz founder and editor Tara Calishain provides three indispensable syntax terms for more effective Twitter searches in this clip from her presentation at Computers in Libraries 2019.

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Conference Connection

CONFERENCE CALENDAR

Sept. 11–13, ALPSP Conference and Awards 2019
Place: Old Windsor, U.K.
Sponsor/Organizer: Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
URL: alpsp.org/Conference

Sept. 16–20, The 16th International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES 2019)
Place: Amsterdam
Sponsor/Organizer: Dutch Digital Heritage Network
URL: ipres2019.org

Sept. 20–25, The 15th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2019)
Place: Sydney
Sponsor/Organizer: University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
URL: icdar2019.org

Sept. 23–25, The 18th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2019)
Place: Katowice, Poland
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing committee
URL: bir2019.ue.katowice.pl

... View our complete conference calendar here.

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Streaming Media Blog – www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Blog – the go-to destination for opinion, analysis, and insights into the entire online video ecosystem, from glass to glass.

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