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A Digital Starting Point for Preserving News
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by Barbara Quint
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Many libraries—academic, public, and private—and other "memory organizations," such as museums, historical societies, commercial publishers, and the like, have started taking responsibility for the digital archiving of newspapers and born-digital news sources. Commercial vendors such as ProQuest have also taken leadership roles in this area. But what needs doing still needs more doers. The challenges are extreme, but losing any part of the record of human history shames the information professional community.
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MPLC Grants License for Spanish-Language Films From EGEDA
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The Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC) signed an agreement with EGEDA (Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales), making movies created by EGEDA producers available in the U.S. via the MPLC Umbrella License. With this annual license for unlimited exhibitions of copyrighted content, MPLC licensees can offer Spanish-speakers more than 50,000 Spanish-language films backed by the EGEDA rights management organization.
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The British Library and the Qatar Foundation Digitize Collections
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The British Library (BL) announced that it recently signed a 3-year digitization project with the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development to preserve a collection of treasured content. The £8.7 million (about $13.5 million) project will convert maps, photographs, manuscripts, and letters into freely available digital formats in English and Arabic to trace the history of Great Britain's involvement in the Middle East.
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F1000 Partners With PLoS to Study Open Access Journal Metrics
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Faculty of 1000 (F1000), a publisher of services for life scientists and clinicians, joined forces with the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a nonprofit publisher and open access (OA) advocacy organization. F1000's F1000Prime directory of biology and medicine journal articles is now accessible to PLoS researchers who need more information on the impact of their articles. According to terms of the agreement, the two publishers will work together to discover associations between F1000 recommendations and other impact measures.
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Five Ways to Get Your Book Published
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by Brandi Scardilli
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In the era of user-generated content, anyone can write a book and get it published, whether it's on librarianship, Big Data, or data scientists. There are dozens of companies to help authors find the right editorial services, design assistance, printing, marketing, and distribution for their works. These days, authors don't need a huge publishing house. One of the best ways to get published and get involved in the process is to sign up with a do-it-yourself (DIY) publisher. Be prepared: Though these publishers charge authors for specific services, you'll still end up doing most of the work yourself. But on the plus side, you'll retain creative control of your book.
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