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| Pew Research Center Updates |
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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." The following are some of the latest reports from each of its eight sections. |
Weekly News Digests |
| NAMLE's Media Literacy Week Will Showcase the Importance of Media Literacy Education |
| The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) announced that the 4th annual U.S. Media Literacy Week (#MediaLitWk) will be held Nov. 5-9, 2018. |
| Cengage and Authors Resolve Their Dispute |
| Cengage reached a resolution with the two authors who had filed a U.S.-based federal class action lawsuit against the company. They had argued that the Cengage Unlimited subscription service violated their publication contracts and would reduce their royalty incomes. |
| Clarivate Analytics and UNSILO Work on AI for Scholarly Publishing |
| Clarivate Analytics joined forces with UNSILO to pilot AI capabilities in Clarivate Analytics' ScholarOne submission and review system. |
| ACS and Elsevier Sue ResearchGate for Copyright Infringement |
| 'This lawsuit focuses on ResearchGate's intentional misconduct vis-a-vis its online file-sharing / download service, where the dissemination of unauthorized copies of PJAs [published journal articles] constitutes an enormous infringement of the copyrights owned by ACS, Elsevier and other journal publishers.' |
| Riffyn Gives Nonprofits Free Access to Its Scientific Development Environment |
| Experiment design and data analytics software company Riffyn introduced Riffyn Open Access, which gives any member of a nonprofit organization free use of its Scientific Development Environment (SDE). |
NewsBreaks |
| Gale Gathers Primary Sources on Political Extremists |
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by Nancy K. Herther
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| Political extremists have existed throughout history, but without access to primary documents, being able to understand their reasoning, the work of their groups, and their movements was left to coverage in recorded histories or biographies--until recently. |
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