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NewsLink Spotlight |
| What's New From Pew Research Center |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| 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. |
Weekly News Digests |
| Cengage Creates OER Platform for Higher Education |
| Cengage introduced OpenNow, a suite of digital OER products for general courses at higher education institutions. It costs $25 per student per course. |
| Renew Publishing Consultants Studies Discovery of Scholarly Publications Content |
| Simon Inger Consulting (now Renew Publishing Consultants) and Tracy Gardner, its principal consultant for specialized competitor analysis and market research, are requesting participants for "How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications 2018," the fifth in their research project series that started in 2005. |
| APA Speaks Out Against Latest Threat to the Affordable Care Act |
| The American Psychological Association (APA) made a statement condemning the president's "announcement that he is halting subsidy payments to insurers offering coverage under the Affordable Care Act. ..." |
| OCLC and the Internet Archive Enhance Book Discovery |
| OCLC partnered with the Internet Archive to make the Internet Archive's 2.5 million digitized books available and discoverable through local libraries. |
| Thomson Reuters Integrates Practical Law and Westlaw UK |
| Thomson Reuters added content from Westlaw UK into Practical Law. According to the press release, "The closer integration bridges the gap between practical guidance and legal research and creates a more seamless experience between the two products." |
| The Library of Congress and WGBH Celebrate Public Broadcasting |
| On Nov. 3, 2017, the Library of Congress (LC) and Boston public broadcaster WGBH will host a free symposium, Preserving Public Broadcasting at 50 Years, to celebrate the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. |
NewsBreaks |
| Biological Computing at the Speed of Light |
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by Nancy K. Herther
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| Thanks to various innovations and the techniques being designed to provide adequate access to these stores of information at a reasonable speed, we are in the midst of a major shift--from silicon to genomics and biological computing. In the past year, major advances have been made that might seem like something from science fiction, and yet hold promise for taking computing to a whole new level of performance and value. |
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