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Google News Initiative: Building Stronger Journalism Benefits Researchers

The goal of Google News Initiative is to support news organizations around the world to not only ensure that quality journalism endures but also to fight against misinformation and disinformation. It provides training and funding towards that end. Three recent projects benefit not only journalism but also the essential need for access to information that is trustworthy, reliable and complete.

Gale Debuts New Digital Archive Series on British Intelligence

The first module of Gale's new Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence explores the history of British Intelligence during an era of global conflict and careful diplomacy, of the rise and fall of political extremes, of great strides in technology and of vast change in the everyday lives of people around the world.

The MIT Press Launches New Open Access Collection of 34 Classic Architecture and Urban Studies Titles

An unprecedented digitization program makes out-of-print works by George L. Hersey, Richard Freedman, Mark Jarzombek, Moshe Safdie, Peter Rowe, Galen Cranz, Arthur Pulos, Gilbert Hubert, and others now available as ebooks for the first time.

The European Commission launches open access publishing platform for scientific papers

The European Commission launched Open Research Europe, a publishing platform for scientific papers that will be accessible to everyone. The platform will present the results of research funded by Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme for 2021-2027, and its predecessor, Horizon 2020.

Oxford Analytica acquired by FiscalNote

FiscalNote's strategic acquisition of Oxford Analytica should enhance FiscalNote's software, data and content offerings with Oxford Analytica's geopolitical intelligence and analysis.

Cabells becomes a member of United Nations SDG Publishers Compact

The United Nations SDG Publishers Compact, established at the end of 2020, encourages scholarly publishers in their activities to speed up progress towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Bramble leaves, peacock dung and a shovelful of bees: transcribing 17th century recipes  

Katie Birkwood | 06 April 2021

Katie Birkwood describes the transcribathon that the Royal College of Physicians archives team took part in, organised to make ancient texts readable both to modern eyes and for digitisation purposes. However, some of the advice in the 17th century books should probably be disregarded, such as bramble leaves and white ginger to ward off the plague and a shovelful of bees to treat hair loss.


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Lubuto Libraries in Zambia: 15 Years of Library Service to Children and Youth

The Lubuto Library Partners, working in Zambia for the past 15 years, established three libraries focussed on the needs of children and youth, providing books, technology, and library programming, as well as serving as safe havens. The pandemic has caused Lubuto Library Partners to consider new directions post-pandemic.

Jane Kinney Meyers | 01 March 2021

OA Switchboard: A central information exchange hub

[Editor's Note: If you heard Yvonne Campfens' inspiring keynote talk at Internet Librarian International 2019 all about creating, innovating, collaborating and what we can learn from startups, you won't be surprised to hear that she has taken her own advice and joined startup OA Switchboard as its executive director. I asked her to tell us about this new venture.]

Yvonne Campfens | 02 February 2021

Google Trends, Working from Home, and Digital Transformation

Google Trends presents excellent opportunities for Internet Librarians to examine differences in terminology and popularity of search topics over time.

Marydee Ojala | 05 January 2021
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JSTOR Ebooks Now Available in the Rialto and OASIS Marketplaces

New Archaeology Title THE PAST Launches Digital Subscriptions

130-year-old Magazine The Writer Launches Modern Digital Archive

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The "bird librarian" brings poisoners to justice.

Learn About Taxonomies in March

Need to take a bite out of your taxonomy efforts? Taxonomy Bootcamp London, a sister conference to Internet Librarian International, is hosting a Bite-sized version on 2 March 2021.
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