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Choice Announces the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2021 ACRL Insider reports that "The Choice Outstanding Academic Titles (OAT) list for 2021 has been announced. This prestigious list, released today, reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed by Choice during...

“The State of Open Data 2021 – Global Attitudes Towards Open Data” Published Today According to infoDOCKET "Figshare, Digital Science, and Springer Nature’s annual State of Open Data report finds increasing concern among researchers about misuse of data as well as a...

National Library of New Zealand Hits Pause on Internet Archive Deal Days Before Deadline According to this press release "The National Library has halted plans to export 600,000 books to an overseas-based online archive after sustained criticism from authors,...

A New Guide From LIBER: “Citizen Science Skilling for Library Staff, Researchers, and the Public” infoDOCKET reports that "The LIBER Citizen Science Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of the first section of their Citizen Science for Research...

UNESCO’s General Conference Reaches Global Agreements On Artificial Intelligence, Open Science And Education infoDOCKET reports that "The 41st session of UNESCO General Conference ended yesterday with the adoption of key agreements demonstrating renewed multilateral...

Association of American Publishers (AAP) Releases September 2021 StatShot Report: Publishing Industry Up 2.0% For Month, and 12.4% Year to Date infoDOCKET reports that "The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released its StatShot report for September 2021...

New Research: “Massive Study Reveals Editorial Bias and Nepotism in Biomedical Journals” Citing the Public Library of Science, infoDOCKET notes that "Scientific journals are expected to consider research manuscripts dispassionately and without favor. But in a...

In New Filing, Publishers Accuse Internet Archive of ‘Stonewalling’ Discovery in Scanning Lawsuit According to Publishers Weekly "Lawyers for a group of plaintiff publishers are claiming that the Internet Archive is withholding documents from discovery in a...

A New Library Impact Research Report From ARL: Understanding and Communicating Research Impact: The Needs of STEM and Health Sciences Faculty and Postdoctoral Researchers According to infoDOCKET "As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, the...