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Tuesday, November 01, 2016
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Not Everyone Is Riding the Marrakesh Express
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by John Charlton
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Surely, few would disagree that the blind and visually impaired deserve all the help they can get in accessing reading materials--and yet it appears some pressure groups have tried to stymie provisions in the 2013 Marrakesh Treaty in order to protect their interests.
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Google News Promotes Fact-Checking
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Google News added a fact-check tag to identify fact-checking in large news stories (starting with U.S. and U.K. results). Tagged articles appear in the expanded story box on news.google.com and in Google News & Weather apps for iOS and Android devices.
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Credo Provides Resource on Current Events
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Credo introduced Issue Briefs for students doing research on current topics. The company will release three or four new briefs each week from Law Street Media, a law and policy site. There are now more than 450 briefs available.
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Intraspexion Uses dtSearch Engine to Identify Litigation Risks
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Intraspexion, a startup that uses deep learning algorithms to identify potential litigation risks, released an application that scans an organization's email and other messaging data to find these potential risks and gives its in-house legal department an early warning.
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CABI Debuts First OA Book
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Nonprofit CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International) published its first OA book, Global Health Research in an Unequal World: Ethics Case Studies From Africa, a collection of fictionalized case studies on common ethical challenges that come up when doing global health research.
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ProQuest Rolls Out Results of Library Space Allocation Study
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ProQuest surveyed more than 600 academic libraries about space reclamation and found that 82% consider it a priority now or in the future. Libraries are reclaiming their spaces in a variety of ways, with 25% developing makerspaces and hackerspaces.
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Foreseeing an Open Source Future With FOLIO
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by Brandi Scardilli
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Libraries have always been spaces where members of a community can gather to gain knowledge, whether through books or through events and activities. But where can library staffers go to do their own learning? They need designated spaces too, which is why the Open Library Foundation is so important. This new organization encourages everyone in the library and library services communities to share their ideas for an open source future.
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