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Amigos NISO consortium agreement announced Citing this NISO press release Library Technology Guides reports that "Amigos Library Services and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have announced a consortium agreement to provide NISO Library Standards...

Writers Guild is considering using AI Writing Tools GoodEReader reports that "The Writers Guild of America is proposing to allow its authors to employ ChatGPT and other AI tools to write scripts for television and movies. There are a few use cases that the Guild...

Sage wins OpenAthens UX award 2023 Library Technology Guides reports that "OpenAthens is proud to announce Sage as the winner of its Best publisher user experience (UX) award 2023. Sage was declared the winner at OpenAthens' annual online Access Lab event on Monday 20...

The Company of Biologists introduces The Forest of Biologists, a bio-positive publishing initiative According to this press release "The Company of Biologists will be planting a tree for each Research Article and Review article published in its five journals, as well...

In ‘refined’ library plan, Vermont State University says it will keep more physical books According to this post in VTDigger "Vermont State University said it will maintain more physical books in its libraries, amid sustained backlash against plans to adopt an...

Copyright: The ‘Protect the Creative Economy Coalition’ According to Publishing Perspectives "A newly formed coalition of American organizations intends to counter state-based challenges to federally mandated copyright protections."In the United States, a...

Amazon is working on a search engine According to Good e-Reader, "Amazon is working on a search engine on laptops, computers and tablets. This differs from their Silk browser for the Kindle and Fire Tablets. The new browser would be a mainstream offering and would...