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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
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Librarians Working Inside Out: An Open Access Week Interview
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by Dave Shumaker
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Heather Joseph is the executive director of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). SPARC is sponsoring this week's ninth annual observation of Open Access Week, a worldwide event held to celebrate open access and advocate for further progress toward its goals. Dave Shumaker visited with Joseph at SPARC's Washington, D.C., office for a wide-ranging conversation about past progress, the state of open access today, the road ahead, and how open access could change the role of academic librarians.
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Pallante Out as Register of Copyrights
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by George H. Pike
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In a surprising move, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden removed Maria Pallante from her U.S. Copyright Office post as the U.S. Register of Copyrights and appointed her senior advisor for digital strategy. Karyn Temple Claggett, who served as Associate Register of Copyrights and director of policy and international affairs for the Copyright Office, became Acting Register of Copyrights.
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U.S. Data Federation Aims to Coordinate and Standardize Government Data
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FedScoop posted an article introducing the U.S. Data Federation, a new initiative from the GSA (General Services Administration) that collects standardized open data from the federal government and coordinates it among specific topics.
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Alexander Street Digitizes Margaret Mead Papers
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Thanks to an agreement with the Library of Congress, Alexander Street will digitize and distribute selections from one of the library's largest and most-consulted collections of personal works, the Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996.
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ACS Plans Earth and Space Chemistry Journal
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The American Chemical Society's (ACS) publications division announced the forthcoming release of ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, "a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that will unite the diverse and global community of scientists who explore the complex chemical nature of materials and processes that occur on Earth, within our solar system and the universe beyond," according to the press release.
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STEM Publisher Creates OA Portal
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STEM publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. launched Liebert Open Access, a platform for its OA publications and services. Researchers can use its intuitive interface and tools to find free content published in Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.'s peer-reviewed journals.
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Kudos Integration Gives Atypon Publishers More Visibility and Greater Access to Metrics
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Kudos integrated Atypon's Literatum publishing platform into its service, including a special enhancement that facilitates data loading from Literatum. With Kudos, authors can easily distribute their articles on social media, increase their articles' visibility, and track the attention articles get.
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