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The article reviews the Web site State Papers Online Colonial: Asia (Far East, Hong Kong, and Wei-Hai-Wei), Part I, located at Gale. gale.com/c/state-papers-online-colonial-asia-part-i, from publisher Gale.

The article discusses the restoration of the papers of scholar and educator Samson Occom to Occom's Mohegan homeland in Connecticut from their previous location at Dartmouth College's Rauner Special Collections Library. Topics include an overview of the papers, the recommitment of Dartmouth to its founding intent to recruit and educate Native American and Indigenous students, and significance of returning the papers to Mohegan land.

The article reviews the web site State Papers Online Colonial: Asia, Part I: Far East, Hong Kong, and Wei-Hai-Wei at gale.com/c/state-papers-online-colonial-asia-part-i from Gale.

The article reviews the Web site the Booker T. Washington Papers Digital Edition, located at rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/BTWN.html, from publisher University of Virginia Press.

The article reviews the Web site State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782; Part IV: State Papers, Foreign, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Turkey, from publisher Gale Cengage, located at https://www.gale.com/c/state-papersonline-eighteenth-century-part-iv.

The article reviews the online resources Carrie Chapman Catt Papers, located at bit.ly/2UiHHKt, and Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music, located at bit.ly/2JZrOoG.

The article features Kathryn Funk, program manager for PubMed Central (PMC) at the U.S. National Institute of Health's (NIH) National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.

The article reviews the Web site State Papers Online: The Stuart and Cumberland Papers from the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle, from publisher Gale Cengage, located at https://www.gale.com/c/stuart-and cumberland.

The article reviews the website database "The Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990" from the Gale firm Cengage Learning, located at http://www.gale.com/moml-aclu-papers.

The article reviews the website The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant Digital Edition, located at rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/GRNT.html.

The article reviews the research database American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990 from the firm Gale Cengage Learning.

A list of the book titles on crafts that are most in demand by libraries and bookstores in the U.S. from Baker & Taylor six months prior to the week ending November 24, 2018 is presented, including "Modern Macramé: 33 Stylish Projects for Your Handmade Home" by Emily Katz, "Handmade Houseplants: Remarkably Realistic Plants You Can Make With Paper" by Corrie Beth Hogg, and Faerie Knitting: 14 Tales of Love and Magic" by Lisa Hoffman.

The article reports on a grant received by Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press, a digital humanities project at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to develop the Digital Library of Distinctive Type and the Coloring Book Paper Analysis Tool to analyze type and paper in late 17th- and 18th-century English language works. Topics include comments from project co-lead Matthew Lincoln, the first phase of the project, and a website to be created by the project.

The article focuses on the database coverage of the Political Science Complete (PSC) from EBSCO Information Services. Topics discussed include the use of publication type called Conference Paper that deals with public policy and administration, political economy, and human rights, the use of esoteric indexes such as author supplied keywords and company entity, and the ownership of subject-specific thesaurus with thousands of term used.

The article lists various books including "The Rogue" by Katharine Ashe, "Square Wave" by Mark de Silva and "The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories" by Ken Liu.

The article reports on a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and a lawsuit filed by immigration attorney Hassan Ahmad to view the papers of John Tanton held at the University of Michigan's (UM) Bentley Historical Library (BHL). Topics discussed include information on the papers in question, career background of Tanton, and claim of Ahmad's attorney Philip Ellison on UM.

A review is presented of Impactstory's Unpaywall browser for Google Chrome and Firefox browsers, which provides free full-text copies of open access (OA) research papers to users.

The article evaluates various databases and online products released in 2016, including "American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990," from Gale, "The Criminal Justice & Criminology Video Collection," from SAGE Knowledge and "Cancer Biology," from Annual Review.

The article discusses academic libraries' use of altmetrics to aid in decision making regarding collection development. Topics discussed include researchers' use of altmetrics to assess the importance of individual papers in the academic publishing landscape, workshops being offered by the Scholarly Commons at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's (UIUC) library about altmetrics and other bibliometrics, and the launch of platforms to support the analysis of altmetric data.

The article reports on a research partnership announced by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) with OCLC and Battelle Memorial Institute to investigate best practices for handling paper- and plastic-based circulating, and other types of collection materials in light of COVID-19. Topics discussed include other institutions included in the collaborative research effort, expectation on the results from the collaborative research, and statement from IMLS Director Crosby Kemper.

The article discusses an initiative advanced by the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) and led by GPO's director Hugh Halpern to modernize the formatting of congressional and other documents to make them not only more readable on paper but more accessible in online formats and through a variety of electronic devices. Topics include various roles of Halpern in government prior to joining the GPO and the partnership between the GPO and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).

The article presents electronic resources including American Civil Liberties Union Papers, Part II, Dutch Royal Library, and Bloomsbury Drama Online.

The article offers information on the assistance provided by several middle school students in Wilmington, North Carolina to writers John Jeremiah Sullivan and Joel Finsel to transcribe and digitize the last copies of the "Daily Record" newspaper. Topics discussed include the coverage of interracial sexual relationships in the paper in an editorial by Alex Manly in 1898, the classes held by Sullivan and Finsel to teach history, and the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center.

The article reports on the move by copyright experts to build a framework for controlled digital lending (CDL) with the publication of a white paper and an official position statement initially supported by 40 individuals and 24 institutional signatories. Topics discussed include benefit of a CDL to a library if properly implemented, basic concept of CDL, and titles that would benefit from CDL including those that are out of print, orphan works or in-copyright works that were not digitized.

The article reports on the decline by the British Library (BL) to provide access to the Taliban Sources Project (TSP) archive due to copyright compliance issues and counterterrorism law violation. Topics mentioned include the statement of the library on August 28, 2015 which explains that it will not acquire or give access to collection of magazines and news papers, the refer of the statement in violating the 2006 Terrorism Act, and the remain of the collection in Afghanistan.

The article offers information on F1000, an online publisher of life science articles that appear in databases called F1000Prime and F1000Research. Founder and scientific publishing pioneer Vitek Tracz highlighted the impact of F1000 on scholarly publishing. He discussed how papers submitted to F1000 are reviewed by peers.

The article presents information science news briefs on topics including the donation of former Congresswoman Lois Capps' papers to the University of California- Santa Barbara, EBSCO's Bronze 2016 Brandon Hall Group Award for Best Advance in Performance Support Technology, and Temple University's use of the Ex Libris Alma library management service.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Sci-Hub Controversy Triggers Publishers' Critique of Librarian" by Lisa Peet which appears in a previous issue of the journal and addresses the roles of publishers and the costs associated with the research paper peer review process.

The article reviews an exhibition of the aerial sculpture "Paper Cloud," by Melanie Walker and George Peters in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The article reviews several academic databases including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Papers from Proquest, Silent Film Online from Alexander Street Press, and Britannica Library from Britannica Digital Learning.

The article discusses a pair of initiatives by publisher Nature Publishing Group. Those who subscribe to the company's publications will be allowed to use electronic mail or social media to share links to full-text content. In addition, several dozen media outlets have been granted permission to link to thousands of the company's articles, scientific papers, and reports. Commentary is presented on how these two endeavors were initially and mistakenly characterized as open access.

The article offers information services news briefs. Publisher Princeton University Press has an open-access digital database for papers written by theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. Publisher Cambridge University Press published Christopher Long's book "Socratic & Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading" in print version and on Cambridge Books Online (CBO). Educational publishing company Gale announced that researchers can use their content for data mining.