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NewsLink Spotlight |
| Resources for an Informed Citizenry |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| 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 |
| OCLC Studies Research Data Management |
| OCLC Research published a report, "A Tour of the Research Data Management (RDM) Service Space," which is the first in a four-part series on decision making at institutions that are planning, developing, and deploying institutional RDM services. |
| ProQuest Adds to Its Civil War Archive |
| ProQuest introduced the Robert E. Lee Papers archive as part of the ProQuest History Vault: Confederate Military Manuscripts and Records of Union Generals and the Union Army. |
| Ingram Content Group Delivers Ebooks to Windows Store |
| Ingram Content Group partnered with Microsoft to build inventory for the new ebooks category in the Windows Store, which already uses Ingram's CoreSource digital asset management and distribution platform to get books from 750-plus publishers. |
| Just Net Coalition Voices Concerns About W3C |
| The Just Net Coalition (JNC) issued an open letter to Tim Berners-Lee, the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), that objects to W3C's recommendation of the Encrypted Media Extension (EME) standard. ... |
| Precise Biometrics Announces 2016 Statistics |
| Precise Biometrics released its 2016 annual report, which can be read online, downloaded as a PDF, or printed. |
NewsBreaks |
| Brexit: We Say Goodbye; They Say You'll Pay |
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by John Charlton
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| Forget Wildenstein versus Wildenstein--Barnier versus May will be the costliest divorce ever. The divorce proceedings between the U.K. and the European Union (EU) have finally reached the gloves-off stage, with former French foreign minister Michel Barnier leading the EU's Brexit team and Prime Minister Theresa May leading the U.K.'s. |
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This newsletter is published by Information Today, Inc. Editor: Brandi Scardilli Website: https://www.infotoday.com/NewsLink Email: bscardilli@infotoday.com |