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Resources for an Informed Citizenry
by Brandi Scardilli
The following are some resources for staying informed about the current administration and the 115th Congress, as well as ways to combat ignorance in a post-truth political climate.

Weekly News Digests

New Initiative Plans to Open Scholarly Citation Data
Six organizations, including eLife and PLOS, founded the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), which aims to coordinate efforts to "open up data on the citations that link research publications" and "promote the creation of a comprehensive, freely-available corpus of scholarly citation data."
Annual Reviews Makes Public Health Information More Available
Annual Reviews made the 2017 volume of its Annual Review of Public Health journal OA under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) license.
BiblioCommons Goes All-In on Green Energy
BiblioCommons announced that as of January 2017, it has enabled a green online presence for public libraries by powering its BiblioCore and BiblioWeb production servers with 100% green electricity (wind and hydropower) with help from Bullfrog Power.
Thomson Reuters Unveils Resource for U.K. Law Students
Thomson Reuters introduced the Law School Resource Centre on its Practical Law platform, which provides legal information for law students (at no additional cost) and lecturers in England and Wales.
GIS Data Facilitates Better Collection of Health Information
According to StateTech, "Geographic information systems (GIS), a collection of tools that make it possible to visualize sets of data on regional maps, are growing in popularity for state and local health agencies."

NewsBreaks

Attention, Libraries: It's Time to 'Switch' It Up
by Justin Hoenke
Nintendo recently released its 15th video game console, the Nintendo Switch, to consumers in the U.S. Presented as a hybrid device that can be used both at home and on the go (e.g., in libraries), the Switch is a positive step forward for the company and a quality system that will provide hours of enjoyment.

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