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Day in Review (January 3–6)

Last Updated on July 9, 2022, 9:43 am ET

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Monday, January 3

Top o’ the Review

American College Health Association Recommends COVID-19 Booster Shot for All Students, Faculty, and Staff
(American College Health Association)

CARL 2022 Canadian Web Archiving Symposium (January 26–27)
(Canadian Association of Research Libraries)

Directory of Reconciliation Resources
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)

OCLC Library Holdings: Assessing Availability of Academic Books in Libraries in Print and Electronic Compared to Citations and Altmetrics
(Scientometrics)

We Can Make a Better Use of ORCID: Five Observed Misapplications
(Data Science Journal)

 

ARL Member Libraries

60,000 Digitized Sound Recordings from UCSB Enter the Public Domain
(UCSB Library)

Creating New Roles for Libraries in Academic Research: Research Conducted at the University of Calgary, 2015–2020
(College & Research Libraries)

Developing a Plan for a More Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable Library at a Research 1 Land-Grant University
(Library Diversity and Residency Studies)

Valeda F. Dent to Serve as Emory’s Inaugural Vice Provost of Libraries and Museum
(Emory University)

 

Libraries—Other

Results of Eurodoc Survey on Open Science and Scholarly Publishing Focused on Early Career Researchers
(European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers)

 

Higher Ed

State and Local Government Jobs More Likely Than Private Sector to Require Postsecondary Education
(US Bureau of Labor Statistics)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

COGR Submits Letter to OSTP on Reducing Administrative Burden
(Council on Governmental Relations)

Former Facebook Executive Pushes to Open Social Media’s “Black Boxes”
(New York Times)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Can a Paid Model for Peer Review Be Sustainable When the Author Can Decide Whether to Pay or Not?
(Scientometrics)

Data Set Knowledge Graph: Creating a Linked Open Data Source for Data Sets
(Quantitative Science Studies)

 

Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian

http://infoDOCKET.com
@infodocket


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Tuesday, January 4

Top o’ the Review

Call for Papers: IATUL Annual Conference 2022
(International Association of University Libraries)

Is Digital Scholarship Meaningful?: A Campus Study Tracking Multidisciplinary Perceptions
(KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies)

Progress Report on the Implementation of the Federal STEM Education Strategic Plan
(US Office of Science and Technology Policy)

Two Million Articles and Counting!
(arXiv)

What Is a Book?
(Public Books)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Collection Spotlight: Gato Negro Ediciones: Library Adds Rare Bilingual Risographs to Special Collections & Archives
(UC San Diego Library)

Librarians in the LaunchPad
(University at Buffalo, SUNY, Libraries)

New Online Exhibit Explores the History of Vaccine Hesitancy
(Duke University Libraries)

Retiring Congressman G.K. Butterfield Donates Papers to UNC-Chapel Hill’s University Libraries
(UNC University Libraries)

 

Libraries—Other

Digital Future for Black Poetry at JMU, Thanks to New $2 Million Grant
(James Madison University)

Open Access Is the Future of Academic Research, Says Wiley Exec
(EdScoop)

Toward a Critical Turn in Library UX
(College & Research Libraries)

 

Higher Ed—Other

1994 Land-Grant Universities: Background and Selected Issues
(US Congressional Research Service)

Three Baltimore Area Schools Are Trying to Diversify Higher Education. Meet the Woman Overseeing the Process
(Baltimore Sun)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

New Compact for S&T Policy
(Issues in Science and Technology)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Perspectives on Open Science and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Internet Trackers and Algorithmic Persuasion
(Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics)

Scientific Paper Recommendation Systems: A Literature Review of Recent Publications
(arXiv)

 

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Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian

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Wednesday, January 5

Top o’ the Review

CLOCKSS Joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
(Digital Preservation Coalition)

Compliance Monitoring in RIM Systems: Not a US Thing? Think Again.
(Hanging Together: The OCLC Research Blog)

“I Updated the <Ref>”: The Evolution of References in the English Wikipedia and the Implications for Altmetrics
(Quantitative Science Studies)

Intersectional Inequalities in Science
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)

What Is Engaged Scholarship and How Can It Improve Your Research?
(Inside Higher Ed)

ARL Member Libraries

An Inside Look at the Center for Connected Learning at Moffitt Library
(UC Berkeley Library)

Into the Next Normal
(University of Texas Libraries)

Slide Show: Yale Library Student Advisory Group Shapes Library’s Pandemic Services
(Yale Library)

To Establish and Preserve the Narrative of January 6th: Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden to Moderate a Discussion with Historians
(infoDOCKET)

 

Higher Ed

Biden Administration Continues to Revise Regulations to Ease Entry for International Students
(American Council on Education)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Suzanne Wilson Named General Counsel of US Copyright Office
(US Copyright Office)

 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Nation’s Teachers More Diverse But Still Lag Racial, Ethnic Makeup of Students
(US Census Bureau)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Can a Paid Model for Peer Review Be Sustainable When the Author Can Decide Whether to Pay or Not?
(Scientometrics)

Controlled Digital Lending of Video Resources: Ensuring the Provision of Streaming Access to Videos for Pedagogical Purposes in Academic Libraries
(Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship)

 

In Other News

Trust in America: Do Americans Trust the News Media?
(Pew Research Center)

 

Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian

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Thursday, January 6

Top o’ the Review

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Statements on Academic Library Websites: An Analysis of Content, Communication, and Messaging
(Information Technology and Libraries)

Free Expression in America Post-2020
(Knight Foundation)

IFLA Trend Report 2021 Update Released
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)

Microsoft Academic Graph Replacement from OurResearch, OpenAlex, Launches
(OurResearch)

NASA Year of Open Science Set to Launch in 2023
(SPARC)

Role of Collegiality in Academic Review, Promotion, and Tenure (preprint)
(bioRxiv)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Annual Report 2021: End of Year Highlights of the Data Curation Network
(University of Minnesota Libraries)

 

Libraries—Other

Connecting EAD Headings to Controlled Vocabularies
(Hanging Together: The OCLC Research Blog)

FAIRsFAIR Project Publishes FAIR Teaching and Training Adoption Handbook and Good Practices Report
(European University Association)

NDSA Year in Review
(NDSA)

 

Higher Ed—Members

Joint Statement from The University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University on Being Designated as New York State’s Flagship Public Universities
(Stony Brook University)

 

Higher Ed—Other

APLU Statement on One-Year Anniversary of January 6 Attack on the US Capitol
(Association of Public and Land-grant Universities)

Scientists from Minority-Serving Institutions and Their Participation in Grant Peer Review
(BioScience)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Library Copyright Alliance Posts Reply Comments on Publishers’ Protection Study
(Library Copyright Alliance)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Trends in AI Research for the Visual Surveillance of Populations
(Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University)

Virtually the Same? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Remote Undergraduate Research Experiences (preprint)
(bioRxiv)

 

In Other News

Election Misinformation Helped Fuel the January 6 Capitol Attack. Now, Climate Misinformation Threatens the Planet.
(Washington Post)

 

Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian

http://infoDOCKET.com
@infodocket

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