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February 25, 2025 — 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. CLICK HERE to view more Weekly News Digest items.

Katina Shares Info About a Database of LGBTQ+ Primary Documents

LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Culture (SJ&C) is an index and a repository for documents, including activist videos, audio, blogs, zines, government reports, conference presentations, and more, created by members of the global LGBTQ+ community between 1980 and the present. It focuses on items that are at risk of disappearing, either because the internet isn’t really forever or because these materials are created or hosted in places hostile to LGBTQ+ rights.

Part of the History Commons platform owned by Coherent Digital, the database is easy to use, with a robust search engine. Despite some concerns about accessibility, I highly recommend this database for academic libraries and for researchers at the undergraduate level and above.

For more information, read the article.

Researchers Seeking to Increase the Impact of Their Research Have a New Avenue With the Cassyni-ScholarOne Integration

Cassyni, the world’s leading platform for research seminars, now integrates directly with ScholarOne Manuscripts, allowing “journals to deliver seminars as a new author service, automatically and at scale.” Cassyni’s author seminars enable authors to increase the impact of their research.

Journals can run online seminar series on Cassyni, ensuring a global audience. The seminars “are fully integrated into the scholarly ecosystem—receiving DOIs and being indexed widely,” according to the press release. They can help researchers decide where to submit their next manuscript. “Papers discussed in seminars also go on to have higher citation impact,” the press release notes.

Cassyni “automates the process of inviting, recording, and publishing seminars, allowing the authors to share the story behind their manuscript and show the real researchers behind the research.” The ScholarOne integration “allows any size of journal to offer the Author Seminar functionality to authors of every accepted manuscript without manual input from journal staff. … Cassyni’s AI-enhanced video player … can be embedded on publisher platforms.”

To learn more, read the press release.

AUPresses Signs the Declaration to Defend Research Against US Government Censorship

As a global organization of mission-driven publishers dedicated to the cultivation of knowledge, the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) has signed the Declaration To Defend Research Against US Government Censorship.

AUPresses joins with individual and institutional members of the scholarly communications community to assert that researchers must be freely able to conduct, collaborate on, share, review, and discuss their research.

For more information, read the news item.

HeinOnline Releases National Defense University Press Database

February 2025—HeinOnline, a product of William S. Hein & Co., Inc., is pleased to announce the release of its newest database, National Defense University Press Publications. National Defense University Press is the academic publishing house of National Defense University, a higher education institute funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. The National Defense University Press publishes books, journals, and monographs aimed at national security professionals on joint and integrated operations, and are used both in Joint Professional Military Education and across the federal sector. It includes close to 500 titles across more than 86,000 pages, and over 500 volumes.

This database is included at no additional cost for subscribers of HeinOnline’s Military and Government database. For more information visit home.heinonline.org/content/national-defense-university-press-publications.

About the Database
Discover hundreds of current and historical texts from the National Defense University Press. This collection focuses on academic and military research in defense, national security, and American foreign policy, with publications divided across six types:

1. Books—Key titles on military and national security themes.
2. Case Studies—In-depth analyses of pivotal U.S. and global events.
3. Occasional Papers—Expert insights on specialized historical and contemporary topics.
4. Policy Briefs—Concise guidance for policymakers on defense and security challenges.
5. Serials—Essential updates for professionals and researchers in national security.
6. Strategic Monographs—Deep dives into global strategy and international relations.

A key feature of this database are subject-coded titles. Whether you’re delving into strategic military frameworks or exploring niche aspects of national security, each meticulously subject-coded publication using HeinOnline’s Military and Government standards empowers you to quickly locate relevant content. Subjects include:

• Air Force
• Alliances and Coalitions
• Armed Conflict
• Army
• Branch Roles and Missions
• Cyberwarfare
• Defense Accounting and Acquisitions
• Defense Appropriations and Authorizations
• Ethics and Law of War
• International Cooperation in Space
• Military Command and Organization
• Military Health and Wellness Issues
• Military in Space
• Military Installations
• Military Procedure and Regulations
• Military Recruitment and Training
• Military Workforce and Personnel
• National Security
• Navy
• Space and National Security
• Terrorism and Insurgency
• Weaponry, Technology, and Equipment
• Women in the Military

About HeinOnline

HeinOnline is a premier online research database that provides comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 3,300 multidisciplinary periodicals, essential government documents, international treaties and trials, case law, and much more. Composed of image-based PDFs and available at an affordable price, the wealth of material allows academic institutions, government agencies, law firms, court systems, corporations, and other organizations access to authoritative, true-to-print digital material without the hassle or cost of using multiple research databases. Furthermore, subscriptions to HeinOnline consistently increase in value without added cost as HeinOnline adds daily, weekly, and monthly content while continuously incorporating new artificial intelligence tools for easier research. More information about HeinOnline is available here: home.heinonline.org.

About William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
William S. Hein & Co., Inc. is a leading publishing company that has been serving the law library community for 100 years. Hein is a highly respected publisher of original legal publications, a major reprinter of legal classics and out-of-print United States Government Printing Office documents, and the world’s largest distributor of legal periodicals. Over the past few years, the company has expanded its services into academic, public, government, and corporate libraries, becoming one of the world’s leading multidisciplinary publishers. 

Contact Information:
Ben Boron
Vice President, Sales & Marketing
William S. Hein & Co., Inc. & HeinOnline
2350 North Forest Road, Getzville, NY 14068
bboron@wshein.com
716.882.2600

EveryLibrary Spreads the Word About the Data Rescue Project

A small team of data librarians has been actively searching for data assumed at risk and sending the datasets and documentation to ICPSR’s DataLumos, a crowd-sourced repository for government data. … [T]hey have sent data from IMLS, the Department of Education, FEMA, HUD, SAMSHA, and more. In addition, they have been nominating sites for the End of Term Crawl. They aim to ensure that the data captured has the appropriate documentation and metadata to enable long-term discoverability and preservation.

The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is a coalition of data librarian organizations, including IASSIST, RDAP, and members of the Data Curation Network. [T]hey aim to coordinate and communicate efforts to preserve access to public US government data that is currently at risk. They have also been active in data gathering, curation and cleaning, cataloging, and providing sustained access and distribution of data assets. …

To help with coordination across data rescue efforts, they have created the Data Rescue Tracker. This tool can be used both to look up where data has been rescued and to nominate your efforts. 

For more information, read the news item.