Emory University joins HELIOS; Emory Libraries’ Lisa Macklin will serve as representative According to the Emory News Center "Emory University has joined the Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS), a collective launched in spring 2022...
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NORTH Chief Librarian and Dean of Libraries (Library) - Hunter College, New York City, NY Instructor Librarian - Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ Cataloging Librarian - Drew University, Madison, NJ SOUTH Research, Engagement, and Learning Librarian 442163 -...
ATG Quirky: 10 Unusual Libraries From Around the World
10 Unusual Libraries From Around the World appears on the Mental Floss website and is by Lorna Wallace. Tianjin Binhai Library, China. / TPG/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images "In the words of Stephen King, “books are a uniquely portable magic.” They have to be...
ASPET ends page charges for open access articles in journals – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 12/30/22
ASPET ends page charges for open access articles in journals KnowledgeSpeak reports that "Beginning in January 2023, The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics will end page charges for new submissions from all authors who opt-in for Open...
CERN supports open access publishing for books – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 12/29/22
CERN supports open access publishing for books Citing a CERN press release, KnowledgeSpeak reports "Ever since the open access (OA) publication of peer-reviewed primary research articles from CERN authors was made a policy requirement in 2014, CERN has made great...
October Was a Rough Month for Publishing Industry Sales – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 12/28/22
October Was a Rough Month for Publishing Industry Sales Publishers Weekly reports that "With sales in the adult books and children’s/young adult categories falling 16.4% and 9.9%, respectively, total industry sales dropped 9.3% in October from a year ago for the 1,370...
The Pandemic Still Made Its Presence Felt in Publishing in 2022 – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 12/27/22
The Pandemic Still Made Its Presence Felt in Publishing in 2022 According to this post in Publishers Weekly "In many ways, last year the industry was still dealing with the fallout caused by the pandemic. For one thing, return-to-office policies remained in flux...
ATG Job Bank for 12/26/22
NORTH Director, Fisher Fine Arts Library - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Reserves & Document Delivery Supervisor, Fineman & Pappas Law Libraries, Boston University School of Law, (Boston, MA) Cataloging Librarian - Drew University, Madison, NJ...
U.S. Copyright Office Finds ‘Deep Disagreement’ on Anti-Piracy Measures – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 12/23/22
U.S. Copyright Office Finds ‘Deep Disagreement’ on Anti-Piracy Measures According to this post, "The U.S. Copyright Office has completed its public consultations on the use of technical measures to identify and protect copyrighted content online. The inquiries...
Scholastica releases 2022 “State of Journal Production and Access” report – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 12/22/22
Scholastica releases 2022 "State of Journal Production and Access" report. According to an e-mail from Scholastica "The report encompasses the results of our second global survey of independent scholarly society, research institution, and university publishers about...
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ATG Job Bank for 1/29/23
NORTH OER Librarian, Bentley University, Waltham, MA Data Reference & Collections Librarian - New York University, Division of Libraries – New York, NY Assistant Director, Prospect Research & Management, Salem State University, Salem, MA Research and Teaching...
JSTOR and university press partners announce Path to Open Books pilot – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 1/18/23
JSTOR and university press partners announce Path to Open Books pilot Library Technology Guides reports that "JSTOR, part of the non-profit ITHAKA, and a cohort of leading university presses announced today Path to Open, a program to support the open access...
New Research Tools: “Introducing Jot — A New Open-Source Tool That Help Researchers With Journal Selection” – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 1/17/23
New Research Tools: “Introducing Jot — A New Open-Source Tool That Help Researchers With Journal Selection” Citing the Yale School of Public Health, infoDOCKET notes the introduction of "Jot: a free, open-source web application that matches manuscripts in the fields...
Mellon Foundation Awards GBH $16 Million Grant to Support the American Archive of Public Broadcasting -Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 1/16/23
Mellon Foundation Awards GBH $16 Million Grant to Support the American Archive of Public Broadcasting According to this press release "The Mellon Foundation has awarded GBH $16 million to support the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a GBH...
ATG Job Bank for 1/15/23
NORTH Systems & Discovery Librarian - SUNY Brockport Drake Memorial Library – Brockport, NY Technology and Reference Librarian - Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY Scholarly Communications Librarian - Jefferson University – Philadelphia, PA Director, Digital...