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A Do-It-Yourself Approach to STEM Education for Girls
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by Brandi Scardilli
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A new initiative from the Los Angeles-based nonprofit DIY Girls helps organizations across the country adopt its mission of providing education programs that allow girls and women to be creative with technology.
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Publishing Technology, PLC Rebrands as Ingenta
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Publishing Technology, PLC changed its name to Ingenta. This serves to unify its business under the Ingenta brand of scholarly publishing products and services.
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Springer Creates Special OA Collection
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Springer launched Change the World, One Article at a Time, an online initiative that features 100-plus Springer journal articles from 2015 that deal with global challenges in fields such as energy, food, water, climate, social equality, and health.
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New Report Offers Best Practices for Transparency Reporting
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Harvard University's Berkman Center and New America's Open Technology Institute released "The Transparency Reporting Toolkit," which aims to identify best practices for reporting on U.S. government requests for user information, offer a transparency report template, and establish reporting guidelines.
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DocuTicker Shuts Down
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DocuTicker announced that it stopped publishing content as of 2016. Since its launch in 2004, the site has posted 35,754 items related to grey literature published by government agencies, think tanks, nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, and interest groups.
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Lynda.com Boosts Professional Skills
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Lynda.com introduced 50 career-focused learning paths designed to help professionals improve and expand on current or potential job skills. These paths include step-by-step, structured courses on becoming a web developer, manager, bookkeeper, project manager, small business owner, or digital marketer.
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Open Access and Open Data Roundup
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by Abby Clobridge
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March was another busy month for stakeholders in the ever-expanding world of open access (OA) and its sibling, open data. During the past few weeks, we've seen a small step forward for FASTR, an important piece of proposed U.S. legislation. Open Data had an equally busy month, with several calls-to-action for support and advocacy and the splashy launch of the new Open Data Button.
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Last Seen in Sea Isle
by Jane Kelly (A Meg Daniels Mystery, #7)
Meg Daniels should know by now that wherever she goes, mystery follows. Her fiancé is taking classes at Stockton University and has befriended Grace Grant, a fellow later-in-life student. Under false pretenses, Grace asks Meg to visit her lavish beachfront house in Sea Isle City, New Jersey, on the same weekend she’s hosting a reunion of pals from the summer of 1969. Meg discovers that Grace is hoping she’ll track down Guy—last name unknown—who disappeared from Grace’s life on the day of the moon landing.
2026 | ISBN: 978-1-940091-16-7 | 226 pp/trade paperback | $16.95
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