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August 13, 2024 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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A Leading University Press in China Adds Journals to ResearchGate
ResearchGate partnered with Tsinghua University Press (TUP) to make TUP’s OA research available on ResearchGate’s Journal Home platform. “The agreement is the first of its kind with a Chinese publisher,” the press release states. “The agreement covers five fully open-access journals published by TUP through their platform, SciOpen, including research published in Artificial Intelligence, Energy, Materials, and Construction.” This means that 2,000-plus articles from TUP are now available to ResearchGate’s more than 25 million members, boosting their reach. Journal Home offers dedicated journal profiles, and articles are automatically added to author profiles so they can track impact.For more information, read the press release.
August People News
Clarivate announced that CEO Jonathan Gear has stepped down and that the board of directors appointed Matti Shem Tov, former CEO of ProQuest, as the new CEO of Clarivate and member of the board of directors. “I have a tremendous amount of respect for Clarivate’s businesses and its mission of advancing innovation through research and knowledge sharing to solve the world’s most complex challenges. I am looking forward to working closely with our committed global colleagues and loyal customers to accelerate growth, increase product innovation and drive value creation for all our stakeholders,” says Shem Tov.Digital Science hired Claire Fox as its chief people officer. Fox has more than 20 years of human resources experience, and one of her previous jobs includes chief people officer at Save the Children International. She also founded her own senior leadership coaching business and wrote the book Work-Life Symbiosis: The Model for Happiness and Balance. “My experience working in international development helped me understand the importance of research in driving systemic change in the world, whether that be in relation to climate change, poverty, discrimination or hunger. So when I found Digital Science, which believes research is the single most powerful transformational force for the long-term improvement of society, I knew it was the right organization for me,” says Fox. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden selected philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Silver Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, as the winner of the 2024 John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. Appiah is the current president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, writes The Ethicist column and newsletter for The New York Times Magazine, has authored more than a dozen books (including In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture), and has taught at Yale, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, and Princeton universities. The Library of Congress will host programming to showcase Appiah’s work to the public. See the September issue of Information Today for more People News.
The New Artstor on JSTOR Brings Together Media and Text Collections
JSTOR became the platform for the complete Artstor Digital Library, a collection of more than 2 million rights-cleared images, videos, and other media for teachers and researchers from cultural institutions around the world. Artstor on JSTOR, as it is now known, is integrated with JSTOR’s thousands of journals, books, research reports, and primary source collections. JSTOR was optimized for images, with new features added such as image-only and cross-content searching and options for comparing and presenting images.For more information, read the news item.
SirsiDynix and Recollect Join Forces for Enhanced Digital Collection Discovery
Recollect, a digital asset management and collection management software provider, partnered with library management solutions provider SirsiDynix to make Recollect’s content platform available to global SirsiDynix customers. “Designed to support libraries, universities, archives, and government organizations in curating highly discoverable digital collections, Recollect’s all-in-one solution unites digital asset management and digital preservation functionality with community engagement tools. This means customers can capture and oversee new content, protect and publicize historic documents, and leverage industry-leading storytelling capabilities to spark conversations with their communities,” the press release states.For more information, read the press release.
Law Library of Congress Studies Book and Media Censorship Around the World
Louis Myers, a legal reference librarian at the Law Library of Congress, writes the following for the blog In Custodia Legis:The Law Library of Congress is happy to announce our recent report Book and Media Censorship in Selected Countries. This report describes the legal frameworks from 22 countries related to their regulation of written materials. Researchers reviewing the report will find information about countries from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. A slate of reasons exists for and against censorship of written materials, including historical, cultural, and philosophical justifications. Readers will find that countries use a variety of legal tools to satisfy both the protection of expression and to limit the most controversial materials, through legislation, regulation, and judicial enforcement. For more information, read the blog post.
Book Riot Publishes a Book Censorship 101 Guide
Book Riot’s book censorship expert, Kelly Jensen, writes the following in “How to Explain Book Bans to Those Who Want to Understand”:Although there is a basic primer on how to fight book bans and censorship in 2024, distilled into easy-to-do, vital tasks following nearly four years of nonstop coverage on book bans, that kind of guide does not provide clear talking points for engaging in conversations about book banning with those who are unaware or completely new to the discussion. This is that 101 guide. You can use it in conjunction with this more robust and detailed guide to the myths about book banning that keep being repeated. Here are several talking points you can and should use with the people in your life who may otherwise not understand the complexity and seriousness of book bans happening in school and public libraries. For more information, read the article.
ZDNET Shares Password Best Practices for 2024
Ed Bott writes the following in “7 Password Rules to Live By in 2024, According to Security Experts” for ZDNET:If you really want to get deep into the details of digital security, read the four-volume Digital Identity Guidelines from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). … The folks at NIST have created a simple Cybersecurity Basics page that boils all that technical information down to a set of crisp guidelines for small business owners and managers. For a simpler, more practical collection of guidelines, try the Secure Our World website, run by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). … I’ve gone through the latest versions of all these documents and put together a list of seven rules to follow when it comes to passwords. For more information, read the article.
DPLA Makes Major Progress on Ebook Terms for Libraries
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) signed a groundbreaking agreement with Independent Publishers Group (IPG) to give libraries in the U.S. “the power to purchase and own in perpetuity, rather than merely license, tens of thousands of ebook and audiobook titles from dozens of independent publishers. The agreement will empower libraries to fulfill their mission to provide access to books for readers nationwide. Publishers such as Austin Macauley, Arcadia Publishing, Dynamite Entertainment, Dover Publications and JMS Books, alongside dozens of other renowned indie publishers, are participating in the deal,” the press release shares.Libraries can purchase these titles through the Palace Marketplace, the ebook and audiobook platform of The Palace Project. For more information, read the news item.
APS and Sage Plan New Open Access Psychological Science Journal
Sage and the Association for Psychological Science (APS) are launching a fully OA journal, Advances in Psychological Science Open, which “will publish high-quality empirical, technical, theoretical, and review articles, across the full range of areas and topics in psychological science. The journal will accept submissions in a variety of formats, including long-form articles and short reports, and APS is encouraging scientists to submit integrative and interdisciplinary research articles,” according to the press release. APS is currently searching for the inaugural editor, and the first manuscripts will be accepted in mid-2025. This will be the seventh joint APS-Sage journal to be published.For more information, read the press release.
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