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The article highlights the author's favorite open search tools for finding open arts and humanities content. Topics discussed include the JURN search tool, which discovers the full text of open journals in the arts and humanities; the sister tool of JURN called GRAFT, which searches the world's academic repositories, and the extremely poor semantic interpretation of queries resulting in subsequent slowing down of Paperity, a multidisciplinary aggregator of OA journals and papers.

Reports that the National Information Standards Organization has published a white paper on Patents and Open Standards by Priscilla Caplan, assistant director of the Florida Center for Library Automation. Discussion of the relationship between standards, patents, and the policies of standards-development organizations; Online access to the article.

Reports submission of over 1,000 peer-reviewed scientific research papers to BioMed Central Journals. BioMed Central's commitment to free and unrestricted access to peer-reviewed research articles; Support of BioMed from scientists; Concerns over the profit and control that the commercial sector exercises over the scientific community.

The article discusses various developments associated with the library industry. It is noted that a new subscription model, Kanopy PLUS, which gives public libraries unlimited access to curated collections at a fixed price, has been started by Kanopy. It is noted that the Library of Congress has added content from New Hampshire, the historical digitized newspapers collection now comprises papers from all 50 states.

This article discusses the proposed open access (OAA) archiving among publishers. This does not require the articles to be published in author-pays OA journals, but simply that published research be made freely available on the Web, whatever publishing route is taken. The stress on OAA has given significant traction to the self-archiving program. Since publishers have historically taken a highly proprietary approach to their business, enforcing OA on them would likely be significant. Not only have they routinely acquired the copyright of papers they publish, but they have also often sought to acquire exclusivity retrospectively too. As researchers began exploring the potential of the Internet, many publishers were initially keen to be involved. Former professor Eberhard Hilf points out that the first response of most publishers to researchers posting and organizing research on the Internet was indifference. For years publishers viewed services like PhysNet and Math-Net as offering no threat. But as publishers began to view the embryonic OA movement as a threat to their traditional print journals, they stopped talking to OA advocates in order to hold on to what they had. Publishers began to migrate their closed model to the new online environment, developing powerful new electronic platforms designed to lock research papers behind a subscription firewall.

Focuses on the release of the report, 'Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs for Research Resources,' by Research Libraries Group in collaboration with the Online Computer Library Catalog (OCLC). Goal of the report to advance long-term retention of digital research methods and archiving services; Outline of the contents of the report.

This section offers news briefs in the information sector as of March 2020. Topics discussed include the Future of Privacy Forum's (FPF) release of a white paper about privacy risks and technologies for enhancing privacy, information analytics company Elsevier's launch of the Novel Coronavirus Information Center which offers information on clinical research about the 2019 corona virus disease (Covid-19), and endowment received by the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled.

This article features the Scopus abstracting and indexing (A&I) project of Elsevier, the scientific, technical, and health limb of the Reed Elsevier. This A&I project has 4,000 STM sources from 4,000 publishers and offers cross-discipline access to more than 27 million abstracts and citations, stretching back to 1966, and includes cited references from 1996 onwards. Harriet Bell, senior marketing manager for Scopus, said the A&I project was started on a hunch that there was gap that Elsevier could fill by providing one interface that would allow researchers to browse, search and navigate all science literature and all of the related information on the Web. For this project, Elsevier worked with 21 libraries in the U.S., Great Britain, Japan and Australia and selected the University of Toronto in Ontario as its development partner. Aside from being user-friendly, Scopus employs a link resolver that shows within search results which documents has the user full access to--before they click. Librarians can upload their subscription list into the system as well as add links to show which results patrons can order from a document delivery service or obtain in a paper copy. Scopus also allows researchers to set up alerts that will notify them when a new article of interest comes out.

This article recommends reading materials on technology. People who would like to know more about digital audiobook (DAB) should read the paper An Overview of Digital Audiobooks for Libraries by Tom Peters, Lori Bell, Diana Brawley Sussman and Sharon Ruda, published in the July/August issue of Computers in Libraries. The paper focuses on the four major suppliers of DAB: Audible.com, OverDrive, netLibrary and Recorded Books, and Tumble Books, which has two offerings--TumbleBooks and TumbletTalkingBooks. Meanwhile, those would like to visit museums across the U.S. can visit the web portal Museums in the USA at the American Association of Museums web site. It serves as a gateway to more than 1,400 American museums of any kind. Ever wondered what is the difference between instant messaging and online chat? Read the article Web-based Chat Vs. Instant Messaging: Who Wins? by Sarah Houghton and Aaron Schmidt, published in the July/August issue of ONLINE. Finally, librarians who need help in enabling their patrons to find materials on the Web should get a copy of the article Generosity and Copyright: Creative Commons and Creative Commons Search Tools by Laura Gordon-Murnane in the July/August issue of Searcher.

The article presents news briefs as of January 1, 2018. Topics discussed include information on the website ScholarlyHub which provides access to research and papers and make scholarship across disciplines both visible and accessible; opening of Turkish library at the Yunus Emre Institute in Johannesburg, South Africa which promotes Turkish language and culture; and improvement in the National Digital Library of India (NDL India).

The article offers updates related to libraries in the U.S. Multimedia course provider Springer has partnered with Federica Weblearning to sreate options for authors and lecturers on massive open line courses. The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has launched its new website at beta.gpo.gov. ProQuest introduced the Robert E. Lee Papers archive as part of the ProQuest History Vault.

ISI ResearchSoft announced the release of WriteNote, a Web-based research and writing tool designed for the undergraduate market. Sold as an annual, sitewide subscription to the institution, WriteNote is designed to help students conduct research and compose papers. WriteNote, which is customized for each campus, takes students to their library resources. There, users can search for relevant content and capture references into their personal library folders. They can also annotate and save Web pages for citing in their papers..

This article provides information on the Web portal, DocuTicker. In 2004, Gary Price planned to spin off a new Weblog from his popular ResourceShelf. This one would be devoted, purely and simply, to identifying new reports from government agencies, trade associations, think tanks, non-governmental organizations, and other organizations that releases research studies, and position papers. Since then, DocuTicker has taken on a life of its own. DocuTicker is never lacking for sustenance. Substance, on the other hand, is a separate issue. Substance, like beauty, is definitely in the eye of the beholder. This can be heard from journalists who have gotten story ideas from things they have seen on DocuTicker. From people who latch onto an interesting item and wonder where they can find similar material. And also from folks who feel that there are too much liberal stuff or too much conservative stuff posted at the site. DocuTicker does not have an ideological slant. Basically, they post anything that someone might want to read because the topic is current, it contains potentially useful statistics, and a helpful bibliography is included. However, DocuTicker does not include commentary from its contributors Internet.

Reports that a United States congressional subcommittee on energy and water development has threatened to constrict the budget of PubSCIENCE, a Department of Energy information service. Declaration that PubSCIENCE is a duplication of activities carried out by the private sector; Efforts of publisher groups to challenge the existence of alternative distribution channels for scholarly papers; Details of Articles in Press and the Faculty of 1000 services.