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Day in Review (June 28–30)

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Tuesday, June 28

Top o’ the Review

Ground-Breaking Open Research Platform, Octopus, to Launch Tomorrow (June 29)
(Jisc)

Persistence & Retention Report: Fall 2020 Beginning Postsecondary Student Cohort
(National Student Clearinghouse Research Center)

Reducing our Environmental Impact by Ending Discounted Print Incentives for Journals. Why Cambridge University Press Will No Longer Be Offering Deeply Discounted Print as Part of New Journals Agreements
(Cambridge Core Blog)

Video Recording: Realising a Vision for the Digital Shift: RLUK’s Digital Shift Manifesto 2 Years On
(Research Libraries UK)

“Zombie Papers” Just Won’t Die. Retracted Papers by Notorious Fraudster Still Cited Years Later
(Science)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Culshaw Elected to Center for Research Libraries Board of Directors
(The University of Iowa Libraries)

Finding a Good Way: Working towards Decolonizing and Indigenizing the University of Alberta Library
(University of Alberta Library)

Meet Smithsonian Libraries and Archives’ New Director, Chicago Native Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty: “I Don’t Think I Will Ever be Bored Working at the Smithsonian.
(Chicago Tribune)

See Where the SFU Library Is Going: 2022–24 Strategic Plan Now Available
(Simon Fraser University Library)

The Longest-Running Queer News Radio Show Is Headed to the Library of Congress
(National Public Radio)

 

Libraries—Other

The Great Hunt for the World’s First LGBTQ Archive
(National Geographic)

 

Higher Ed—Members

The Most Popular Degree Pays Off: Ranking the Economic Value of 5,500 Business Programs at More Than 1,700 Colleges
(Center on Education and the Workforce, Georgetown University)

 

Higher Ed—Other

Canada’s University Community Standing Behind Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom and Democracy
(Universities Canada)

Smaller and Restructured: How the Pandemic Is Changing the Higher Education IT Workforce
(EDUCAUSE)

Spring 2022 Snapshot on International Educational Exchange
(Institute of International Education)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

EFF’s Statement on Dobbs Abortion Ruling
(Electronic Frontier Foundation)

W3C to Become a Public-Interest Nonprofit Organization
(World Wide Web Consortium)

 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

APLU Co-led Aspire Alliance Releases Report on Equity Reform in STEM Faculty Careers
(Association of Public and Land-grant Universities )

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Women Scientists Don’t Get Authorship They Should, New Study Suggests
(American Association for the Advancement of Science)

Beyond Open Access: Conceptualizing Open Science for Knowledge Co-creation
(Frontiers in Communication)

 

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

http://infoDOCKET.com
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Wednesday, June 29

Top o’ the Review

Elsevier’s Acquisition of Interfolio: Risks and Responses
(SPARC)

Facial Recognition Technology: Federal Agencies’ Use and Related Privacy Protections
(US Government Accountability Office)

June 2022 HELIOS Newsletter
(Higher Education Leadership Initiative—HELIOS)

The True Costs of Knowledge Exchange—A Checklist
(The London School of Economics and Political Science)

WP7 Scoping Report on Archiving and Preserving OA Monographs
(Community-led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs—COPIM)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Former University Librarian Gloria Werner Remembered for Her Visionary Leadership
(UCLA Library)

How UCR’s Library Got One of the World’s Largest Japanese Hip-Hop Collections
(UC Riverside)

North: The Canadian Shared Print Network Launches to Ensure Preservation of Unique Canadian Publications
(McGill Library)

Vanderbilt Librarians Host ACRL Session on Team-Based Collaboration, Providing Framework for Librarians Nationwide
(Vanderbilt University)

Why Web Archiving?: A Conversation with Web Archivists and Researchers
(US Library of Congress)

 

Libraries—Other

Opening the Future Program Welcomes JSTOR as a Hosting Partner
(Opening the Future)

Request for Comments: National Collection Strategic Plan
(US Federal Depository Library Program)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Advancing a Vision for Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
(White House Office of Science and Technology Policy)

 

Data & Analytics

NISO Vision Interview with CORE’s Petr Knoth on the Role of Text Mining in Scholarly Communication
(Jisc)

 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Top-Ranking Colleges and Universities Focus on Transfer Students as One Key to Increasing Diversity
(Insight Into Diversity)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

2022 Scholar Metrics Released
(Google Scholar Blog)

 

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

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@infodocket


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Thursday, June 30

Top o’ the Review

Educopia Partnering with Curtin University and OAPEN to Create a Community Governed OA Book Analytics Service for Publishers
(Educopia Institute)

The Great Resignation Era: Attracting and Retaining Library Talent
(International Alliance of Research Library Associations)

LAC Vision 2030
(Library and Archives Canada)

Readout: OSTP and CEQ Initial Engagement on White House Indigenous Knowledge Effort
(White House Office of Science and Technology Policy)

WorldFAIR: Global Cooperation on FAIR Data Policy and Practice–Kick-Off Meeting Introduces Major New Initiative to Advance Implementation of the FAIR Data Principles
(Committee on DATA of the International Science Council)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Compiling Jim Crow Laws with Digital Research Services
(UNC University Libraries)

Library and Cogut Institute to Offer Certificate in Digital Humanities
(Brown University Library)

LPC Welcomes a New Member: University of Delaware
(Library Publishing Coalition)

MAPP Partnership Leads to Collection Discovery at the Center
(Ransom Center Magazine)

 

Libraries—Other

How Can Data Librarians Support Data Communities? An Interview with Jordan Wrigley
(Ithaka S+R)

PKP Releases Its 2021 Annual Report
(Public Knowledge Project)

Special Issue of IFLA Journal (June 2022): Preservation Storage and Curation Strategies
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)

 

Higher Ed—Other

A New Way to Help College Students Transfer: Admit Them to Two Schools at Once
(The Hechinger Report)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Student Loans: A Timeline of Actions Taken in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(US Congressional Research Service)

US Copyright Office Publishes Report on Copyright Protections for Press Publishers
(US Copyright Office)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Association of Publication Record and Independent NIH Funding
(PLOS ONE)

The Financial Maintenance of Social Science Data Archives: Four Case Studies of Long-term Infrastructure Work
(Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)

 

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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