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Most of us are familiar with the term 'hot commodities,' but who would have guessed exactly how hot they would become? COVID-19 has taken commodity prices and availability on a [...]

There is an old Doonesbury comic strip in which the laid-back hippie Zonker Harris is confronting the tax consequences of his first actual job. Zonker proposes to his friends that [...]

The Library of Congress (LC) announced a Chronicling America milestone: With the addition of content from New Hampshire, the historical digitized newspapers collection now comprises papers from all 50 states, [...]

* Lean Library published the free 'Librarian Futures' white paper (registration required), which is 'based on a large-scale survey of 4,000 librarians and patrons that examines librarian-patron workflows and relationships. [...]

Newspaper publishers seem to have taken the hardest hit from the technological and economic challenges of publishing. Tales of venerable titles closing their doors after decades of service to their […]

Choice released a white paper, 'Implementing Marketing Plans in the Academic Library: Rules, Roles & Definition' (registration required). It 'offers a practical definition of library marketing and examines why it's [...]

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) teamed up with the National Archives and Records Administration's Office of the Federal Register (OFR) to digitize volumes of the Public Papers of the [...]

Gale released Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990, a new archive that focuses on the intersection of law and society. It features more than 2 million [...]

This year's ALA Annual Conference (aka Chicag05) was a veritable world's fair for librarians. Stretching for miles from the grand and historic Loop hotels in Chicago along the park to […]

The Library of Congress (LC) made the papers of President Woodrow Wilson available online. They cover his time in the White House, as governor of New Jersey, and as a [...]

The Library of Congress (LC) announced that Benjamin franklin's papers are now available online. The approximately 8,000 items in the collection mostly date from the 1770s and 1780s and feature [...]

The Library of Congress (LC) announced that the papers of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are now online. The collections include their correspondence, speeches, and materials from the [...]

The Library of Congress (LC) made the papers of Alexander Hamilton available for free online. This collection of about 12,000 items-he really did write like he was running out of [...]

World Wide Web technology facilitates internal corporate communication The Internet is a wonderful service, providing law offices with a variety of powerful new information capabilities. But the real news is […]

* Demco Software released a white paper, 'Going the Extra Service Mile: The State of Reading Recommendation Services in Libraries' (go.boopsie.com/l/189162/2017-04-19/5b3t6), which shares findings from a 2017 survey of 330-plus [...]

ProQuest introduced the Robert E. Lee Papers archive as part of the ProQuest History Vault: Confederate Military Manuscripts and Records of Union Generals and the Union Army. It features telegrams, [...]

What's the value-added tax (VAT) rate on ebooks in the European Union (EU)? Pick any percentage 27 or under, and you'll probably be right, at least for one of the [...]

The University of Virginia Press Electronic Imprint, Rotunda, has released the Papers of George Washington Digital Edition, an ongoing documentary edition that encompasses five series: the Colonial Series, the Revolutionary […]

Thieme Chemistry announced the Best Paper Awards for its synthetic organic chemistry journals Synthesis and Synlett. The Synthesis Best Paper Award goes to Laurent Evanno, Erwan Poupon, and their research [...]

BioMed Central, Ltd. has announced that this year over 1,000 scientists have submitted their research papers to the journals published by BioMed Central, the publishing company committed to free and […]

Questia Media, Inc. has announced the launch of Questia, a service that offers students access to a large collection of quality, credible content online to research and compose papers 24/7. […]

Xerox Corp. has announced that it has launched Gyricon Media, Inc., an independent venture that will use the power of electronic reusable paper to provide networked, reusable retail signs that […]

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has announced the publication of a white paper on electronic journal usage statistics by Judy Luther, president of the consulting firm Informed […]

Xerox Corporation has announced that it has selected 3M as the manufacturer to bring to market its Electronic Paper, a digital document display with the portability of a plain sheet […]

Similar to U.S.-based ReadCube, U.K.-based reference manager tool Papers was founded by academic researchers who wanted to help their peers organize, read, cite, and share research materials from scholarly articles. [...]

Research Libraries Group (RLG) has announced the release of the second report developed in collaboration with OCLC to advance long-term retention of digital research materials. 'Attributes of a Trusted Digital […]

OCLC has announced that OCLC Forest Press has published an updated edition of the DDC Summaries booklet. OCLC also announced that library leaders from 28 countries met March 5-6 at […]

The full text of ProQuest's scholarly content (journals and working papers, etc.) was indexed in Google Scholar. Now Google Scholar and ProQuest users can more easily find content, and libraries' [...]

Gale Group, a Thomson Corp. company, has announced that it is working in association with the Sir Winston Churchill Archive Trust and the University of Southampton (U.K.) to publish for […]

Lucent Technologies and E Ink Corp. have announced an agreement that may accelerate the time when e-books and newspapers resembling flexible plastic sheets will be available for millions of users. […]

ProQuest announced that it will digitize portions of the U.K.'s Colonial State Papers, previously only available for viewing at The National Archives. The papers are handwritten and cover British history […]

The Association for Information Science and Technology's (ASIS&T) special interest groups for arts and humanities (SIG AH) and visualization, images, and sound (SIG VIS) cosponsored a Student Research Paper Award, [...]

* The Global Commission on Internet Governance issued a working paper, 'The Impact of the Dark Web on Internet Governance and Cyber Security,' which reports that insights on the deep [...]

Reports on the number of online sites which offer term papers to students. Estimated number of these sites as of March 1999; Prices per page which custom written term papers sell for; Use of credit cards; Subjects covered by the term paper sites such as current affairs, social sciences, and literature. INSET: Online Term-Paper Mills.

ProQuest History Vault added materials from Rutgers University's Thomas A. Edison Papers Project to its database. More than 175,000 documents, including Edison's laboratory notebooks, diaries, business records, and correspondence, are [...]

Dialog OnDisc Paper, Printing & Packaging Database, published by Dialog Information Services, Inc. A bibliography with abstracts corresponding to the print version of International Packaging Abstracts, Paper and Board Abstracts, […]

ProQuest Information and Learning has completed the digitization of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers from 1801 to 1900, which are considered to be the most detailed primary source for […]

While one historical scientific collection added thousands of new digitized pages in April, another new project was launched. The key factors in both of these preservation efforts involved international collaboration […]

The Library of Congress announced that the final release of digital images from the George Washington Papers are now online at the American Memory Web site (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gw html/gwhome.html). In this […]

ProQuest is partnering with JISC, The British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (BOPCRIS) at the University of Southampton, The British Library, and the University of Cambridge to distribute the […]

ChemSW, Inc. released enhancements to its CISPro Global and CISPro Live inventory systems that let users track biological and radiological material based on user-defined properties. Users are now able to […]

ProQuest has expanded Periodicals Index Online (PIO), the index for periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The company added 176 titles, bringing the total to 5,255 titles, including […]

* The Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) at the Columbia University Libraries/Information Services (CUL/IS) acquired the papers of Rafael Steinberg, an author and foreign correspondent who reported on U.S. [...]

The California Digital Library (CDL) has announced the launch of a Web site and associated digital services to store and distribute academic research results and working papers. The eScholarship Repository […]

Columbia University Libraries/ Information Services' Rare Book & Manuscript Library acquired Judith Crist's papers. Crist's works as a writer, exhibitor, teacher, and film critic encompass 135 linear feet of material. [...]

The digital content marketplace is far too complex, and the competitive landscape too crowded to accurately describe in a simple, short blurb. We believe the proper articulation of something as […]

AIP Publishing released its iPeerReview app for mobile access to submitted papers. Authors and reviewers can now access information about papers submitted to AIP's journals in Peer X-Press, its manuscript [...]

The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), published by SAGE Publications, started a genre of research paper where high-quality, peer-reviewed data sets are published for the robotics community. Data papers, […]

IDG Connect created a new iPad app that gives users full access to its global IT white paper library. This application is free to download through Apple's iTunes App Store [...]

Imagine two young librarians whose only connection is a virtual relationship via the internet. They decide to collaborate on a conference paper, which they intend to co-present at an upcoming [...]