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A New Take on the U.S. Constitution
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by Brandi Scardilli
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What the Constitution Means to Me, a 100-minute play written by and starring Heidi Schreck, opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater on March 31, 2019. ... Schreck [says] that the play explores how her female relatives' lives "had been shaped by this document, circumscribed by this document, and, in some ways, harmed by this document."
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The Berkman Klein Center Rolls Out Website Accessibility Checker
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The Internet Monitor project at the Berkman Klein Center launched AccessCheck, a tool for testing the accessibility of websites in real time in more than 50 countries.
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W3C Will Hold a Workshop on the Future of Transportation
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is planning an event hosted by Uber: the Workshop on Data Models for Transportation.
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Dimensions and NSD Enhance Social Science and Humanities Research
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Dimensions partnered with NSD (Norwegian Centre for Research Data) "to increase visibility, searchability, and availability of research in the areas of Social Science and Arts & Humanities. ..."
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eLife Starts an Awards Program for Underrepresented Scientists
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eLife announced that it "is piloting a new funding scheme to help authors from underrepresented groups showcase their research."
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Mellon Foundation Provides Grants to Help Currently and Formerly Incarcerated Students
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation introduced "a series of grants totaling $3.3 million to support four prison education and re-entry programs across the country."
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Wiley and OhioLINK Enter Into a Wiley Open Access Account Agreement
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Wiley signed an OA agreement with OhioLINK, a library consortium of 118 libraries and 89 colleges and universities in Ohio.
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HarperCollins Highlights Digital-First Publishing With Its New Division
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Heloise Wood writes for The Bookseller, "HarperCollins will launch 'a dynamic' digital-first division entitled One More Chapter, to combine the HarperImpulse, Killer Reads and Avon digital-first divisions. ..."
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Accessible Archives Completes Content Update for Major Discovery Services
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Accessible Archives, Inc. has finished updating all of its content in EBSCO Discovery Service, OCLC's WorldCat, and Ex Libris' Primo and Summon.
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Two Math Research Resources That Are Equal to the Task
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by Woody Evans
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Women are making waves in math. Although they have always contributed to the field, whether by founding the first university to offer a degree in mathematics, writing the first computer programs, or calculating courses in orbit and to the moon, 2019 has been a particularly good year for recognizing and celebrating the contributions of women.To celebrate this banner year for women in math, here is a snapshot of two great resources for supporting the mathematics researchers and students in your organization.
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