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Weekly News Digest
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February 6, 2025 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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Salon Explores How Info Pros Fight the Trump Administration's Deletion of Science Data
Carlyn Zwarenstein writes the following in “As the Trump Admin Deletes Online Data, Scientists and Digital Librarians Rush to Save It” for Salon:Orders from the Trump administration affecting science and health in the United States—and from there, the world—are coming thick and fast, affecting a myriad of institutional and personal decisions that depend on accurate information provided by the U.S. government. This ranges from websites disappearing to the prohibition of dictionary words from federal scientist research papers. Now researchers and data nerds are rushing to preserve this vital information before it’s lost. Meanwhile, many public communications have been paused as well. For the first time in sixty years, the federal health agency, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), has stopped its own publications, including the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). This comes on top of a communications gag order preventing its scientists from sharing any new findings—from new insights in cancer treatment to potential new pandemics like Ebola—with the public. For more information, read the article.
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