Libraries, Collections & Archives
Texas Digital Newspaper Program Reaches Huge Milestone!
University of North Texas, LSA Consortia Member (Amigos), News Announcement, July 12, 2023
On July 7, 2023, the Texas Digital Newspaper Program reached 10 million pages of newspapers. These are newspapers digitally preserved, freely accessible, and fully text-searchable in The Portal to Texas History, hosted by University of North Texas Libraries.
The Texas Digital Newspaper Program collection represents a massive endeavor in preservation, digitization, and digital access to news content. Spanning over 200 years of history from or related to Texas and the South, TDNP includes newspapers in Spanish, German, Czech, Hebrew, Chinese, Italian, French, and Swedish, as well as one serial title in Esperanto. This past year, we have added newspaper titles from communities as small as 612 in population, as well as from big cities, including Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Galveston, among others.
UT Libraries to Open New Facility for Long-Term Preservation of Collections
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, LSA Member, News Announcement, July 10, 2023
At first glance, the large parking lot near a warehouse district in West Knoxville seems unremarkable. But this space will soon be home to the treasures of the UT Libraries.
The university is moving forward with the construction of the Library Storage Annex, a modern climate-controlled facility that will house special collections materials; the University of Tennessee Archives; the Modern Political Archives; important but little-used items from the general collections; and other library materials that require long-term preservation.
Product Innovation
Wolters Kluwer and Unbound Medicine Release New Mobile App For Nursing Industry's Bestselling Drug Guide
Wolters Kluwer, Voting Member, News Release, July 27, 2023.
Wolters Kluwer Health and Unbound Medicine today announced the launch of a brand new mobile app version of the original and best-selling drug guide for nurses—Lippincott’s Nursing Drug Handbook. The application transforms 100% of the print edition content into an end-to-end digital platform with the latest updates from the FDA.
As new and different versions of popular medications continue to be approved, it is important for nurses at all levels to understand the key information on what is given to patients. The new app equips them with data on more than 3,800 generic, brand-name, and combination drugs, integrated images for more than 400 of the most-prescribed pills and tablets with drug monographs.
Open Access, Open Science
PLOS to extend accessible data to more articles and repositories
Public Library of Science (PLOS), Voting Member, Press Release, July 6, 2023
PLOS today is announcing that it has extended the scope of its “Accessible Data” experiment, which was first launched in March 2022, with support from a Wellcome Trust grant. The experimental “Accessible Data” feature is designed to increase research data sharing and reuse by highlighting links to select repositories with an eye-catching icon on the article page. We are now expanding from the original three repositories to nine, which together host about three quarters of the outputs linked to from PLOS articles.
PLOS began its Accessible Data experiment with two overarching goals. First, to increase reuse of datasets linked to PLOS articles and second, to increase authors’ use of data repositories by visually acknowledging and rewarding repository use on articles. Through analysis of 543 Figshare datasets linked to PLOS articles, we observed a 20% relative increase in the average number of views received per month.
UBC Library Open Education Impact & Activity Report – 2022/2023
University of British Columbia, LSA Consortia Member (CRKN), Reports, July 5, 2023
UBC Library’s Open Education services seek to support the UBC community in finding, adapting, and creating high-quality open educational resources, as well as planning and implementing innovative Open Education projects and Open Practices.
UBC Library’s Open Education services play an active role in moving forward UBC Vancouver Library’s Strategic Framework vision of,
…leading and collaborating to advance open scholarship…
Additionally, the supports and services for open education reinforce UBC Okanagan Library’s commitment to,
… support(ing) transformative learning experiences.
Research Initiatives
Advisory report begins integration of generative AI at U-M
University of Michigan Library, LSA Member, Featured Article, July 24, 2023
A committee looking into how generative artificial intelligence affects University of Michigan students, faculty, researchers and staff has issued a report that attempts to lay a foundation for how U-M will live and work with this new technology.
The report is available to the public at a website created by the committee and Information and Technology Services to guide how faculty, staff and students can responsibly and effectively use GenAI in their daily lives.
Elsevier Releases Latest Industry Study Revealing Surprising Growth Trends from the Global South Among G20 Nations
Elsevier, Voting Member, Press Release, July 12, 2023
Elsevier, a global leader in evidence-based clinical practice content, research publishing, and information analytics, just published the newest report analyzing global research trends with a focus on collaborations between the largest economies in the world. Fostering collaboration: a study of scientific publications with authors in G20 countries, studied data from Elsevier’s industry leading SCOPUS database and uncovered that researchers in G20 nations co-authored 75% of total scientific publications worldwide from 2012-2021.
The report, which was spotlighted at a seminar jointly organized by India’s Ministry of Education in partnership with Elsevier, analyses scientific production of the 19 G20 members, all of which have rigorous research and development programs. Elsevier examined 24,746,950 scientific publications from researchers at nearly 20,000 institutions. The data introduced some striking trends in global research.
Partnerships & Collaborations
CRKN and Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Extend Partnership!
Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), Voting/LSA Consortia Member, News Announcement, July 5, 2023
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) are pleased to announce the renewal of their partnership. CRKN members will continue to have the opportunity to financially contribute towards the PKP Membership Program. CRKN has been a dedicated partner to PKP, actively supporting the organization through its participation in the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) since 2020. CRKN has also supported PKP in their collaboration with Érudit on Coalition Publica since 2014.
CRKN is among several consortia that have strengthened PKP through this program. In light of the growing importance of Diamond OA publishing, the collaboration between scholarly and research organizations and open infrastructures has never been more crucial in achieving sustainable access to global research. “We are proud to continue partnering with such an innovative organization dedicated to advancing Canadian research and scholarship,” said John Willinsky, PKP’s founder and Co-Scientific Director, “given our shared goals of increasing access to knowledge.”