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NewsLink Spotlight |
| Pew Research Center Analyzes Life in 2023 |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| NewsBreaks often covers recent surveys and reports from Pew Research Center, "a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world." The following are some of the latest reports and other analyses from 2023. |
Weekly News Digests |
| eLife Makes Preprint Submission Easier for Researchers |
| eLife introduced a system that will simplify the payment process for authors who submit preprints to its new publishing model—they can declare their affiliation during the submission process, and their institution will handle the publication fee invoice on an author's behalf through a central account. |
| Sustainable Development Knowledge Cooperative Showcase Goes Live |
| Kudos and Impact Science rolled out the Sustainable Development Knowledge Cooperative, one of their showcases featuring plain-language summaries of actionable research on current topics. |
| The Soutron Information Resource Management System Gives Organizations Centralized Control |
| Soutron Global unveiled the Soutron Information Resource Management System (IRMS) to help organizations control their physical and digital information resources while also ensuring that information governance and business rules are enforced. |
| University of Sussex Combines Digital Science Companies to Improve Research Data Management |
| The University of Sussex in the U.K. has integrated Digital Science's figshare and the Elements platform from Symplectic to create an interoperable research information and data management solution. |
| IFLA Shares the History of How the United Nations SDGs and Libraries Intertwine |
| Loida Garcia-Febo, an IFLA governing board member, writes for IFLA's blog, "[This post] is a compilation of resources related to IFLA and librarians' advocacy to place libraries on the agenda of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals." |
NewsBreaks |
| The Mighty Reach of Little Free Libraries |
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by Patti Gibbons
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| The Little Free Library organization aims "to be a catalyst for building community, inspiring readers, and expanding book access for all through a global network of volunteer-led Little Free Library book-exchange boxes." It maintains registries of these book outposts, collectively promotes the program, fundraises, and provides broad programmatic leadership. |
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