Latest Attempt in Cyber Warfare
Many major firms, airports and government departments in Ukraine have been struck by a massive cyber attack which spread across Europe this week. This interesting news came to us from The Telegraph in their article, “Petya cyber attack: Ransomware spreads across Europe with firms in Ukraine, Britain and Spain shut down.” Ukrainian government departments, the central…
Read MoreFree Educational Opportunity
The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Journals Committee has added an additional free guest speaker talk to their summer programs. This will be a talk via webinar only. We will be hearing from Laura Harvey, Head of Publisher Relations at Publons on Tuesday, July 18th from 12:00-1:00 p.m. (ET) via webinar. Publons is the world’s first and largest reviewer recognition…
Read MoreAccountability in Open Access Publishing
A recent United States court ruling awarded publisher Elsevier $15m in damages for copyright infringements by Sci-Hub, the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites. This interesting news came to us from The Bookseller in their article, “Elsevier awarded $15m from Sci-Hub in copyright case.” The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the International Publishers…
Read MoreScholar Communications and Machine Learning
The last 30 years in scholarly communications have shown a steady trend towards digital content creation and delivery, especially for journals. The industry focus has now moved from print to online. However, online delivery may be influenced by print predilections. This interesting topic came to us from Research Information in their article, “‘Genuinely disruptive’.” Academics have a…
Read MoreNew Partnership Enhances Collaborative Technologies
Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) and Zapnito announced a new partnership to enable STM and humanities publishers, professional societies, and other knowledge providers to foster engagement around expert content and discussions. This information came to us from Silverchair’s press release, “Zapnito and Silverchair Partner to Create and Enrich Knowledge Communities.” This isn’t a new collaboration. Zapnito’s…
Read MoreThere is No Hiding
Are all journals vulnerable to harm from piracy? Are open access (OA) journals immune to the threat? The Scholarly Kitchen brought this news to us in their article, “Are Open Access Journals Immune from Piracy?” Authors choose to pay to publish in OA journals because of the increased visibility/citations and fund requirements. It is normal for an…
Read MoreEducational Opportunity on PIDs
The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Committee for Digital Innovation (CDI) will be hearing from guest speaker Christine Orr, Sales Director – North America at RINGGOLD on Wednesday, July 19 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the HarperCollins/NY offices. Christine will address Persistent Identifiers – The 5 things you need to know. The use of persistent identifiers (PIDs) has become much more widespread in our industry,…
Read MoreDigital Storytelling
At the Digital Public Library of America’s DPLAfest2017, networking and conversations about outreach, collection development, and issues central to the DPLA community were expected, and no one was disappointed. The speakers placed a special emphasis on details that are frequently overlooked. American Libraries brought this interesting information to us in their blog post, “The Devil Is in the…
Read MoreAccess Innovations Adds Custom Search to American Water Works Association’s In-house Document Repository
Albuquerque, NM – Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in digital data organization, has recently completed a new project with one of their longest standing clients, the American Water Works Association (AWWA). AWWA has used Access Innovations’ XML Intranet System (XIS) application since 2004 and recently contracted for a major update. AWWA upgraded to the newest…
Read MoreCommon Sense Rules
Call it gallows humor, but I found this particular taxonomy ironic. It came to us from Boing Boing in their article, “A taxonomy of algorithmic accountability.” Computer scientist, Ed Felten, shared a short taxonomy of four ways that an algorithm can fail to be accountable to the people whose lives it affects. It can be…
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