F1000 Research is now open to all disciplines, including Humanities and Social Sciences No Shelf Required reports that "Open research publisher F1000, has announced that it has now extended its publishing offering on its own publishing platform, F1000Research, into...
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ATG Job Bank – Oct. 12, 2021
Northeast Resource Sharing Coordinator, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Systems & Technology Librarian - Canisius College, Buffalo, NY Innovative Science Librarian (Full-Time), Drexel University, PA Librarian for Research Services, New York University, NY Head of...
Duke University: $10 Million Grant Brings Lilly Library Transformation Closer – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 10/11/21
Duke University: $10 Million Grant Brings Lilly Library Transformation Closer According to infoDOCKET "in support of the proposed renovation and expansion of Lilly Library, Duke has received $10 million, President Vincent E. Price announced Friday [October 1].The...
ATG Quirkies: Did Thoreau Do Yoga?
Did Thoreau Do Yoga? by Livia Gershon, a freelance writer in Nashua, New Hampshire, appeared in JSTOR Daily on Oct 2, 2021 Henry David Thoreau via Wikimedia Commons "Yoga, mediation, and other practices derived from Asian traditions have become increasingly mainstream...
ATG Job Bank – Head of Technical Services & E-Resources Librarian – McDaniel College, Westminster, MD
Head of Technical Services & E-Resources Librarian - McDaniel College Department: Hover LibraryLocations: Westminster, MDPosted: May 26, 2021Closes: Open Until FilledType: Full-timePosition ID: 131499About McDaniel College:McDaniel College, recognized nationally...
CDL Co-Op Releases Statement on Controlled Digital Lending as a Mechanism for Interlibrary Loan – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for Oct 8th
CDL Co-Op Releases Statement on Using Controlled Digital Lending as a Mechanism for Interlibrary Loan According to infoDOCKET "In September 2021, the CDL Co-Op, a group of librarians and information professionals working on issues of resource sharing, interlibrary...
ATG Book of the Week – Data Literacy in Academic Libraries: Teaching Critical Thinking with Numbers
TITLE: Data Literacy in Academic Libraries: Teaching Critical Thinking with NumbersEDITOR: Julia BauderPAPERBACK: ISBN: 978-0838948835; $59.99IMPRINT: Chicago: ALA Editions, 2021 "The strategies and initiatives detailed in this book will empower data librarians,...
NPD Books Reports, “With More Bookstores Open, Soaring E-books Sales Fall Back to Earth” – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for Oct 7th
NPD Books Reports, “With More Bookstores Open, Soaring E-books Sales Fall Back to Earth” Citing the NPD Group, infoDOCKET reports that "Last year in 2020 marked the first time since 2013 that annual e-book unit sales from leading U.S. publishers grew, increasing...
Caught my Eye by Katina “Supply-chain snarls reach the book publishing industry.”
"Supply-chain snarls reach the book publishing industry" is by Elizabeth A. Harris who writes about books and publishing for The New York Times. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times) "The churning disruption in the global supply chain has now reached the world of books,...
The US National Book Awards Announce the 2021 Finalists Plus More ATG News & Announcements
The US National Book Awards Announce the 2021 Finalists According to Publishing Perspectives "the National Book Foundation has announced its 25 finalists across five categories’ shortlists in the 2021 National Book Awards, the 72nd presentation of these...
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ATG Quirkies: “How to Summon Spirits”
"How to Summon Spirits" is an article by the Editors of JSTOR Daily that explores various articles and stories appearing in "The Spiritualist, a newspaper published from 1869-1882, that was filled with tales of supernatural phenomena and tips for communicating with...
Internet Archive releases Refcat, the IA Scholar Index of over 1.3 billion scholarly citations – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 10/22/21
Internet Archive releases Refcat, the IA Scholar Index of over 1.3 billion scholarly citations Library Technology Guides reports that the Internet Archive "As part of our ongoing efforts to archive and provide perpetual access to at-risk, open-access scholarship, we...
The End of JSTOR’s Journal Hosting Program
JSTOR’s Journal Hosting Program (JHP) was founded in 2011 as a resource for publishers to host current journal issues — and archives — on JSTOR servers. It’s been an affordable way to distribute academic content to researchers and libraries, but JSTOR is closing the...
Court Denies Amazon, Publishers’ Bid to Delay Discovery in Price-Fixing Case – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 10/20/21
Court Denies Amazon, Publishers' Bid to Delay Discovery in Price-Fixing Case According to Publishers Weekly "A magistrate judge last week denied a bid by Amazon and the Big Five publishers to temporarily stay discovery in a lawsuit that alleges a conspiracy to...
The Internet Archive’s Community Webs Digital Archiving Program Welcomes 60+ New Members – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 10/19/21
The Internet Archive’s Community Webs Digital Archiving Program Welcomes 60+ New Members From the US, Canada and Internationally According to infoDOCKET "Community Webs, the Internet Archive’s community history web and digital archiving program, is welcoming over 60...
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