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The article focuses on SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION. Topics discussed include COVID-19 has taken commodity prices and availability on a roller coaster ride that is only in the nascent stages of its journey; and the views of " Diana Haytko, professor and chairperson of the department of marketing and sup ply chain management at the East Carolina University College of Business, on it.

Reports on the launch of a Web site and digital services by the California Digital Library. Idea to store and distribute academic research results and working papers; Role of Berkeley Electronic Press in the development; Inclusion of papers authored or sponsored by the University of California.

This section offers news briefs on information technology. Google has launched the strategic initiative, known as RE

This article offers an outlook on the electronic book market in the U.S. Walt Crawford cited several reasons why electronic books have done poorly, including ergonomics, DRM, pricing, and, most importantly, electronic books are a solution in search of a problem. Potentially changing the outlook for this market was the commercial implementation of a digital ink display technology that provides paper-like reading comfort and long battery life. Sony Electronics, Inc. announced its Sony Reader for e-books on January 4, 2006 during the Consumer Electronics Show. After agreements with several major publishing companies, more than 10,000 electronic book titles are available to be downloaded to the reader via the companion PC software and the CONNECT store.

This section presents updates on issues concerning information science in the U.S. as of September 2004. Ovid Technologies Inc. announced an agreement with the American Psychological Association (APA) to make content from the APA PsycBOOKS full-text database accessible through Ovid's on-line platform. Ovid's offerings from the PsycBOOKS database initially will include more than 600 titles, including 100 out-of-print books from 1950 to 2002 and approximately 50 archival resources in psychology. Ovid plans to add approximately 10 titles a month to the database. Customers on the Ovid platform will be able to browse a table of contents and locate specific book chapters in PDF form. Meanwhile, Ingenta Inc. has been chosen to deliver the British Standards Online Project for BSI Business Information, the publishing division of the BSI Group. The project involves the provision of a new online channel to market for thousands of British Standards publications. BSI will use Ingenta's technology to deliver a more flexible information commerce proposition, building new revenues through the creation of new revenue channels. In a separate news, Infotrieve Inc. and Thomson ISI ResearchSoft announced that they will collaborate to deliver enhanced services to the corporate researcher. This partnership will provide connectivity between content delivered by Infotrieve and ISI ResearcbSoft's publishing software. Researchers will be able to navigate bidirectionally between content resources and their personal reference collections. This connectivity will allow researchers to obtain full-text research articles from Infotrieve and capture bibliographic references for citing in papers and reports that they author.

The article focuses on the online version of newspapers in the U.S. Newspapers continue to morph into online services. Not only do almost all newspapers today have Web sites, but most of them regularly produce Web-only content, and many have begun networking to content flows from beyond the paper's own staff and control. And this trend seems set to grow. The nation's leading papers continue to report steady annual declines in print circulation, while a Newspaper Association report shows a 24-percent increase in Web readers on newspaper Web sites.

The article states that U.S. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has scored a victory for freedom of the press and the scholarly publishing community with a ruling from the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The ruling exempts peer review, editing and publication of scholarly manuscripts submitted to IEEE by authors living in countries that are under U.S. trade embargoes, such as Iran and Cuba. OFAC determined that the publication process of IEEE is not constrained by regulatory programs of OFAC. The government's decision confirms the position that IEEE has argued for more than a year. Its entire publishing process falls outside the scope of the regulations of OFAC because of the Berman Amendment to the trade sanctions law that excludes the free exchange of information from economic embargoes of OFAC. IEEE had obtained a September 30, 2003 ruling from OFAC that exempted a large part of its editorial process but left uncertain whether it had to publish such papers as is or could edit such papers prior to final publication. The April 2, 2004 ruling clarifies the freedom of IEEE to engage in scholarly peer review and style-and copy-editing of papers.

The article offers technology industry news briefs as of May 2018. The Library of Congress (LC) announces the online availability of the papers of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton that include their correspondence, speeches, and materials from the Seneca Falls Convention in New York. Gale Small Business Builder comprehensive tool is offering integrated access to its business and legal resources. Solutions provider bibliotheca debuted its open library solution in North America.

This article states that the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is in charge of collecting and organizing federal records, a job previously left to the individual agencies of the government. In 1939, Franklin Delano Roosevelt set aside a portion of his estate in Hyde Park, New York, to build a library that would house his presidential papers, which he later donated to the federal government. This formally launched the Presidential Library system, which the NARA now also operates. In 1955, Congress passed the Presidential Libraries Act, which called for privately built but federally maintained presidential libraries and encouraged presidents to donate their private and presidential papers to them. As of June 2007, NARA has maintained 11 presidential libraries.

The article announces several personal changes and awards related to librarians in the U.S., as of June 2016, including appointment of Krishna Nathan at S&P Global, Cheryl A. Middleton at Oregon State University, and presentation of Springer's Howard E. Brandt Best Paper Award to Mun Dae Kim.

The article announces the 2016 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award given to dean James L. Mullins of Purdue University and the Best Paper Award 2015 received by David Calligaris from the journal "Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC)."

This article focuses on the issue of data breaches and the mixed legal response to it in the U.S. The common methods for breaching data records include the loss or theft of laptop computers, inadvertent release of records, and improper disposal of electronic or paper records. It notes that notification laws have been passed by 45 states as primary legislative responses to data breaches. A national data breach law that would be applicable to all states is being considered by Congress. Particular focus is given to the potential benefits of the law.

The article reports on the launch of UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) on January 9, 2007. UKPMC is the British version of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's PubMed Central. It will provide free access to a permanent online archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences. The service is the product of work done by the Wellcome Trust to encourage British research-funding bodies to promote and encourage open access publishing. A special manuscript-submission system has been also introduced to let scientists submit articles that have been accepted in a peer-reviewed journal directly to UKPMC.

This article comments on the press releases issued by several organizations in the U.S. Press release is defined as a paper or electronic document submitted to the media with the intent of gaining media coverage. One of the basic rule in news writing is never to bury the lead. A classic news story is written in an inverted pyramid style, which means that the key points are at the top, followed by information of decreasing significance. One press release that the author found as annoying presented findings from a study but offered no link to the report or source information.

This article discusses the trends in the electronic publishing of books in the U.S. as of July 2005. Conventional wisdom said e-books were not going to work. And it is true that e-books did get off to a shaky start during the dot-com time. It would be kind to say that those expensive e-book readers were a premature technology. Paper lovers of the world rejoiced as the traditional book reigned supreme. Adobe decided to close its e-book store. However, Adobe is presenting this as a happy closure, without anyone crying over the loss of the Adobe Digital Media Store. But entertainment e-books seem to be gaining traction. The Open eBook Forum, a trade and standards organization dedicated to the development and promotion of electronic publishing, stated in its annual list of top-selling e-books that Dan Brown dominated the 2004 list with The Vinci Code topping the list and Brown's Angels & Demons and Deception Point rounding out the top three. At the same time, the industry reported continued growth, with e-book revenues for the third quarter of 2004 up 25% and sales of e-book units up 11% over the same quarter in 2003.

This article reports on the final ruling issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on December 16, 2004 regarding publishing activities with people in sanctioned countries. This ruling follows a lawsuit filed against OFAC on September 27, 2004, by several publishers arguing that the agency does not have the authority to mandate licenses for publishing activities with these countries. This new ruling enables U.S. persons to freely engage in most ordinary publishing activities with persons in Cuba, Iran, and Sudan, while maintaining restrictions on certain interactions with the governments, government officials, and people acting on behalf of the governments of those countries. In its place, OFAC has issued three general licenses that authorize certain activities relating to publishing that otherwise entail the prohibited exportation of services to, or prohibited importation of services from, Cuba, Sudan, or Iran. These regulations permit U.S. citizens to engage in all transactions necessary and ordinarily incident to the publishing and marketing of manuscripts, hooks, journals, and newspapers in paper or electronic format. This OFAC ruling almost reverses the position that the agency has taken since September 2003 regarding its interpretation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the Trading With the Enemy Act. According to the press release issued on December 15, 2004, OFAC still contends that it will have the authority to require licenses for these publishing activities.

This paper reports that WebFeat has received a U.S. patent for its federated search technology. The company also announced that it will provide translator technology for Central Search, the federated search product of Serials Solutions. The patent which was granted in late 2004, covers the method and technology for managing the authentication and session management necessary to perform a federated search access licensed resources. So far, the WebFeat technology has been integrated into more than half of the 20 largest U.S. public libraries as well as one out of every 10 institutions affiliated with the Association of Research Libraries. Central Search supports multiple database formats, including Z39.50 databases, Extensible Markup Language gateways, Hypertext Transfer Protocol connections and proprietary dataabses. The WebFeat translator library of more than 3,600 databases will allow Serials Solutions' client libraries to include virtually any database in their federated search solution.

This article reports that Readex has announced the creation of a Web-based Archive of Americana as of December 2004. It will feature fully text-searchable facsimile images. This resource, comprising four major primary source collections, provides online access to printed record in the U.S. The cornerstone of the Archive of Americana is Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, based on Charles Evans' American Bibliography. This collection contains nearly every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in the U.S. from 1639 to 1800. Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker continues the Evans bibliography and includes books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the U.S. between 1801 and 1819. Complementing Early American Imprints is Early American Newspapers (1690-1876), based on Charles Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers. The largest collection of its kind, Early American Newspapers presents cover-to-cover reproductions of rare newspapers and issues. The fourth collection in the Readex Archive of Americana is the U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1980) with American State Papers (1789-1838). Revealing events as they unfolded and decisions as they were made, these volumes of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives also include color maps, illustrations, and non-congressional publications.

This article deals with the proliferation of Weblogs in the U.S. as of 2004. According to a blogging history on Yahoo!, some people consider Mosaic's 1993 What's New page to be the first blog. In 1997, the term Weblog was coined by Jorn Barger with his Robot Wisdom Weblog. Only a handful of blogs existed in 1998. In 1999, the number began to grow dramatically after the proliferation of free Weblog-creation programs such as Blogger. These programs made it easy for anyone to create a blog, a process that has been called push-button publishing. By October 2000, bloggers were creating 300 new blogs a day. Whether or not bloggers are luring people away from words on paper is debatable, but there is strong evidence that bloggers are, in other ways, having a genuine impact on the world. Blogs brought former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's endorsement of Strom Thurmond's 1948 pro-segregation platform to the attention of the traditional media. Blogs raised the first questions concerning documents about President George W. Bush's Air National Guard service aired by CBS News and sparked the media firestorm that led to the network's admission that the documents were, in fact, questionable. Bloggers are not threatening traditional media, nor replacing it--bloggers are enhancing it, adding additional voices, another check and balance. And bloggers are having an impact in many fields besides journalism and politics. Teachers are using blogs to educate. Scientists use them to share information and ideas. Photographers use them to offer their views and get people to see the world around them in new ways. Group blogs allow large numbers of people worldwide to create the feel of a community gathering. A skilled blogger can guide us to or through the information we need, whether we knew we needed it or not. But now, with so many skilled and unskilled bloggers, we are creating a vast, unknowable blogosphere that cannot be mastered.

The article announces the recipients of various awards including the De Gruyter Saur/IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) Research Paper Award 2015 given to Ana Pervan, the Florida Atlantic University's (FAU) Exceptional Faculty Award given to Victor C.X. Wang, and the 2015 Award for Meritorious Achievement given to Amy Brand by the Council of Science Editors (CSE).

This section offers digital information news briefs including Nature Publishing Group's (NPG) offering of double-blind peer review for its authors, the Global Commission on Internet Governance's latest working paper on Internet governance, and cybersecurity, and the Web of Things initiative.

Reports the announcement of the United States Library of Congress that it has added to and expanded collections available online from its American Memory Web site. The site as a project of the National Digital Library Program; `American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920,' a collection from the Frances Loeb Library at Harvard University Graduate School of Design; George Washington Papers; Other materials.

Reports that the University of Iowa (UI) Libraries has been awarded a grant to digitize a collection of paper records relating to Chautauqua performances in the United States. Value of the grant; Information on the Chautauqua collection in the department of special collections; Popularity of circuit Chautauqua in 1904; Background information on Chautauqua's performances.

Information about panels, papers, and innovations at the 54th Annual National Federation of Advanced Information Services Conference in February 2012 is presented. Topics discussed include a preview of software company Microsoft's Academic Search tool that can help track publications and citations, a discussion by director Lee Rainie of the Pew Research Center concerning user content and networked information, and a discussion about hype concerning emerging technologies.

The article discusses the highlights of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)/Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) preconference held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in summer 2011. A rare piece of paper ephemera from the Victorian era was showcased by Eclectibles co-owner Sheryl Jaeger. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation contributed to the recovery of Gulf Coast libraries which was celebrated in June. 3M Library Systems unveiled its electronic book (ebook) checkout system.

The author focuses on the case of a public school district in Pennsylvania whose school officials allegedly switch on the web cameras (webcams) of the laptops they issued to their students without full disclosure to the parents of the minors to check on what they were doing at home. He states that conducting any type of wiretapping requires a court order. He also offers a short refresher course on American civics including the Bill of Rights, which is about the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects.

The article deals with how the U.S. press covers the increasingly important global intellectual property debate. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and Copyright Term Extension Act played a role in the increased coverage. The DMCA was the last major overhaul of domestic copyright law and, along with the Clinton administration's National Information Infrastructure White Paper (1995), helped frame intellectual property law as vital to the U.S. technological and commercial future. The press' failure to accurately report intellectual property issues has various repercussions.

Discusses how Cambridge Scientific Abstracts announced that the National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database is available on its Internet Database Service (IDS). Links from IDS search results to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronauts (AIAA); How the database covers all aspects of local, state, and international criminal justice; Publishing of AIAA meeting papers.

Announces that the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress has released three new collections of online materials, as of July 1999. Details of each, which include, `The Thomas Jefferson Papers,' `William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz,' and ` The Origins of American Animation.'

Reports on an announcement by the National Digital Library Program that it has added multimedia materials from the collections of the United States Library of Congress to its American Memory Web site. The addition of the Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers; An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera; Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection.

Informs that the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), at a public forum dedicated to discussing United States standards policy, presented its recommendations to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The recommendations in a white paper titled `Considering a U.S. National Standards Strategy: Building on a Framework for Success'; Comments by Rhett Dawson, ITI president.