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NewsBreaks

by Terry Ballard

Databases such as the ones from ProQuest and Gale evolved in a way similar to the discovery platforms that overlay or replace most webpacks. There is a search bar for your topic, with facets on the left to drill down to a specific topic. That is why I was quite intrigued when I checked out two new products that work in a completely different sphere. Both of them entered the marketplace in 2017, and both are useful in their own ways. Unpaywall is a service that searches the entire universe of free PDFs and notifies you if there is access to an article that appears to be locked. Kopernio cuts through the red tape and grants access to PDFs, even if you are not at the library.

Weekly News Digests

Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices Gets Update

The U.S. Copyright Office published the third edition of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, which is the agency's technical manual for staffers and a guidebook for authors, copyright licensees, courts, and others.

A Response to Elsevier's Statement on the Future of OA

In a Medium article, "A Response to Elsevier's Insights Into Making the Transition to Open Access Possible," Toby Green writes to Gemma Hersh, Elsevier's VP of policy and communications, "You are quite correct, there is no international consensus for which open access model is best. However, waiting for consensus and taking an approach where 'structural challenges need to be worked through by all stakeholders together' brings to my mind Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. ..."

Yewno Discover Adds Cambridge University Press Ebooks

Yewno Discover extended its relationship with Cambridge University Press to continue indexing its journal articles and to begin indexing its ebooks, meaning all of the publishers' digital content is now part of the knowledge discovery platform.

SAGE Makes Course Materials Available Cheaper and Earlier

SAGE introduced an "inclusive access" program, which allows students to access digital and print course materials before a class starts and for a discounted fee.

Google Scholar Indexes ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

Content from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is now discoverable via Google Scholar. The organizations had previously partnered in 2015 to index millions of scholarly articles, and they have added nearly 500,000 full-text dissertations to the agreement.

NewsLink Spotlight

What's New From Pew Research Center

by Brandi Scardilli

NewsBreaks often covers the latest surveys and reports from Pew Research Center, "a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world." Its website has eight topic sections, each of which showcases the latest research, which is collected in reports, fact sheets, or other formats that extrapolate respondents' answers to cover the entire U.S. population. ... Here's a roundup of the latest news from each section.

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Bookshelf

The Accidental Taxonomist, 3rd edition
by Heather Hedden
Foreword by Stephanie Lemieux

The Accidental Taxonomist is the most comprehensive guide available to the art and science of building information taxonomies. Heather Hedden—a leading taxonomy expert and instructor—walks readers through the process, displaying her trademark ability to present highly technical information in straightforward, comprehensive English.

In this fully revised third edition, Hedden adds an entirely new chapter on ontologies, emphasizes the SKOS model of concepts over the traditional thesaurus model of terms, and provides new insights into taxonomy development techniques. She presents fresh survey data; new screenshots and examples; and updated information on software, career opportunities, and resources for taxonomists.

2022/502pp softbound/ISBN 978-1-57387-586-8 | $47.50

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