A summary of some of the news you may have missed including: free content to combat fake news; JSTOR Sustainability; CLIR and Jisc set up transatlantic partnership; SAGE and University of Bath launch Public Data Lab; New Oxford Shakespeare Authorship Companion available online.
Posted 10 April 2017
A multinational survey asked about the reading habits of over 22,000 internet users in 17 countries.
Posted 06 April 2017
Google has launched a beta version of its YouTube Go app on Google Play in India.
Posted 05 April 2017
ProQuest expanding e-book collection.
Posted 02 April 2017
Automated chatbot linked to cyberbullying.
Posted 31 March 2017
Introducing The USA Desk - a new column by Terence K. Huwe reporting on stateside developments of interest to librarians everywhere.
Posted 31 March 2017
New open access portal from the Gates Foundation; Altmetric annual grant applications open; Kudos and PubFactory partner; Karger and UNSILO enrich content
Posted 27 March 2017
Organisations around the world are creating truly digital native content.
Posted 22 March 2017
Prestigious awards for the best books for children and young people.
Posted 22 March 2017
The rapid pace of change in the Open Data and Open Science landscape across Europe can make it difficult to stay informed.
Posted 22 March 2017
To celebrate its 50th birthday, the Federation of European Publishers has released a new report The Book Sector in Europe - Facts and Figures.
Posted 17 March 2017
The UK Government, along with other organisations including the Guardian newspaper, has pulled adverts from YouTube.
Posted 17 March 2017
EBSCO offers grants to academic libraries; OUP announce pilot of legal current awareness feed; new modules added to Bloomsbury Law Online; new Latin additions to Oxford Scholarly Editions Online; Reprints Desk partners with The Copyright Licensing Agency.
Posted 14 March 2017
EBSCO offers grants to academic libraries; OUP announce pilot of legal current awareness feed; new modules added to Bloomsbury Law Online; new Latin additions to Oxford Scholarly Editions Online; Reprints Desk partners with The Copyright Licensing Agency.
Posted 12 March 2017
Millennials are now the largest generational group in the USA.
Posted 10 March 2017
A Norwegian news site has been experimenting with its comments section; the Perspective initiative is hoping to use machine learning to identify online harassment.
Posted 10 March 2017
The complexity of managing book collections in multiple formats is addressed in a new white paper by ProQuest.
Posted 09 March 2017
The Academic Publishing Europe conference considered the ethics of publishing, covering everything from Peer Review to Piracy. Marydee Ojala reports.
Posted 09 March 2017
Google to shut down Spaces and gives first glimpse of video conferencing app; Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries joins Portico; FSG launch infectious diseases knowledge hub; SAGE adds new video collections; Jisc appoints new trustees.
Posted 03 March 2017
Royal Society of Literature finds that Public libraries are crucial to sustaining and building engagement in literature.
Posted 01 March 2017
Several initiatives are being rolled out to fight the fake.
Posted 25 February 2017
Brill releases Digital Cuban Culture Collection; open access humanities and social science ebooks from Knowledge Unlatched; Altmetric integrates Web of Science citation data; Atypon expands international offices.
Posted 24 February 2017
Speaker submissions sought for the Library Innovation Conference, with the theme of 'Super-Powered Libraries: innovation, influence, impact'.
Posted 24 February 2017
Ogilvy report for advertising has some interesting messages for libraries.
Posted 24 February 2017
New service aims to connect researchers with relevant content.
Posted 24 February 2017