• Stanford Libraries creates new division to support scholars’ data needs

According this post in the Stanford Report “Stanford Libraries has created a new division called Research Data Services (RDS) that will collaborate with other campus units, such as the Stanford Research Computing Center, to provide services for Stanford scholars across the university working with data. …”

MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES

• Neil Gaiman, Alok Menon, Naomi Klein, Saul Williams, and 300+ authors pen open letter supporting libraries’ rights in the digital age

• IGI Global is Integrating With the OA Switchboard

• Best-selling Author James Patterson Donates $2 Million to Help PEN America Raise its Reach, Voice, and Influence

• UT Libraries Unveils Digital Membership Card for Donors

• States Return Indigenous Oral Histories to Tribal Control

• India’s Cactus Communications: A ‘Linguistic Search Engine for Researchers’

• France to impose €3 delivery fee on book orders from Amazon

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