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The article covers recent developments in the library and academic publishing sectors. Topics discussed include the launch of UPLOpen.com by the De Gruyter eBound Foundation to promote open access (OA) scholarship aligned with Sustainable Development Goals, Syracuse University Libraries' new OA agreement with Springer to enhance research dissemination, and hoopla Digital's introduction of a Pokémon BingePass for library patrons to access content freely for a week.

The article informs that a federal lawsuit against the Escambia County School Board for book removals can proceed, ruled by a U.S. district court judge in Florida. Topic include Plaintiffs, including PEN America and banned authors, have been granted standing under the First Amendment, challenging the removal of books based on ideology, with classic literary works like The Bluest Eye and Slaughterhouse-Five among those targeted.

The article discusses the article also briefly traced the history, rise, and fall of the professional news researcher and librarian role as a highly valued and sometimes even exciting career path. It also explored the status of the news librarian today. the last 20 years or so, many media organizations have eliminated their research librarians and rely on their own reporters to do research for articles.

The article offers information on the New York Public Library's (NYPL) Books for All campaign, addressing the rise in book bans and challenges. Topics include the campaign's focus on promoting the importance of reading and access to knowledge for all ages, particularly teens, with initiatives such as the Teen Banned Book Club and a national teen writing contest.

The article discusses how news organizations identify experts in the full range of topics they cover. It reports, how in past, bookers used their contact lists, inviting individuals who had already appeared on their programs and who often did not reflect the multicultural voices of society, as of October 2021.

The article offers information on current litigation surrounding AI, including lawsuits by Sarah Silverman and The New York Times against AI companies. Topics include the development of AI in legal research, illustrated by Thomson Reuters' WestlawNext, which utilized machine learning for legal research. The article also discusses the evolution of AI, comparing the capabilities of early machine learning algorithms to modern generative AI models.

The article explores T he Bay Area TV Archive was established in 1981 when broadcasters at local TV affiliates noticed, to their horror, that custodians had been instructed by senior management to dispose of film assets. Important news and documentary programming from the 1960s and 1970s— their legacy—was being thrown away like trash.

The article offers news brief related to library information including Open Library of Humanities investing in platform improvement, The National Library of Turkey progressing in digitizing its vast collection, and report highlighting regional reading trends and growth in Comics and Graphic Novels.

The article presents the discussion on world news briefs. Topics include Oxford University Press (OUP) and the South African National Libraryand Information Consortium (SANLiC) have signed a 3-year read-and-publish contract; and expanding worldwide access to peer-reviewed content enhances learning and opportunities for researchers and students from underserved locations.

The article offers news briefs concerning online media.. Founders of Kopernio, Mendeley, and Publons have joined forces to launch a new company called Cassyn. Axel Springer signed an agreement to acquire POLITICO.Acquia agreed to acquire Widen, a cloud-native maker of digital asset management (DAM) and product information management (PIM) software.

The article focuses on credibility lent by the U.S. midterm election of 2022 to theory suggested for Polling data. Topics discussed include Grand Old Party (GOP) wave sweep of federal Senate and House race, consideration of the survey methodology being used by several organizations, and plus or minus margin of errors stated by several posts.

The article offers industry news briefs. Topics include Dow Jones Factiva has added 39 new sources that capture information from the public domain, with a focus on regulatory news and corporate announcements, Digital Science fully acquired IFI CLAIMS, in which it had originally invested in 2017, and 2U acquired substantially all of the assets of edX for $800M in cash.

The article focuses on finding community news in the algorithmic era. Topics inlcude the researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Media and Journalism decided to study the exact penetration of news deserts in the U.S., the loss of community information a dearth of local news coverage can lead to dire consequences, and the result was that some of the most-affected counties, which represent some of the most rural and economically has depressed areas in the U.S. INSETS: WHO OWNS ALGORITHMIC NEWS?;CANARIES IN THE AI COAL MINE.

The article offers information on the tips which library professionals can do to promote news literacy. Topics include remember the principle of least effort; learn from history; and capitalize on trending topics.

The article offers information related to specific efforts and technologies that provide prevention related to fake news. Topics discussed include efforts by people and organizations such as mixing technology tools employing algorithms, artificial intelligence, and machine learning; technology start-ups trying to control the spread of fake news; and companies' aim to improve research methods and encourage thoughtful editing decisions.

The article offers information on to understanding the difference between fake news, and true news with the help of automated tools. It focuses on the ways by misinformation can turn into harmful malinformation as unauthenticated sourcing, misattribution, and crowdsourced news can be misleading and contain biases and exaggerations can lead to poor decisions by companies or governments.

The article offers industry news briefs including Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) signed an agreement with Amazon Publishing to make all of the Amazon Publishing ebooks and audiobooks available to libraries and their patrons through the DPLA Exchange; and CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, launched a new brand reflecting the broadening scope of its solutions and capabilities critical to advancing scientific discovery.

The article offers information on collaborations and initiatives in the education and academic sectors. TeachingBooks and The Library Corporation (TLC) have partnered to provide users of TLC's LS2 PAC or LS2 Kids catalogs within Library•Solution for Schools access to TeachingBooks' online resources, including video book trailers and author interviews.

The article presents various news. Topics including teaming up of The Library Corp. (TLC) has with ALA in Unite Against Book Bans, a national grassroots endeavor to engage the public in the fight against censorship, IOP Publishing (IOPP) has entered into an agreement with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and MIT Press becoming a part of the OpenAthens Federation.

In an increasingly digital world, information can be expressed in startling and incredible ways. In December 2012, The New York Times published "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek," a six-part story that included interactive graphics, animated simulations, and aerial video. The series resulted in 2013 Pulitzer (pulitzer.org/winners/john-branch) and Peabody (peabodyawards.com/awardprofile/snow-fall-the-avalanche-at-tunnelcreek) awards and became an important landmark in the history of journalism. It also appeared in print in the Dec. 21, 2012, issue of the newspaper, obviously without the multimedia components. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on fake news in information sources. Topics discussed include information on fake news which is fabricated stories that are devoid of facts and wrong, regardless of agenda; need to continuously upgrading information evaluation skills, tools, and resources; and information on librarians' playbook for fighting fake news such as information on International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions which issued a guide for determining if news is fake.

The article offers news briefs on topics including ProQuest announced that it renamed ProQuest Corporate to Dialog Solutions, with two divisions: Dialog and Pi2; mentions Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) plans to integrate the Altmetric Badges for its books and journals; and also mentions Kudos has enhanced its free service for authors with the addition of a new featured image capability.

The article offers search industry news briefs. Topics include Scholastica now offers automated article and metadata deposits for the Portico digital preservation archive, LYRASIS and DuraSpace announced their merger; and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a global leader in research and education, has announced a countrywide partnership agreement with Projekt DEAL, a representative of several academic institutions in Germany.

The article offers information on how critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. Topics include the critical thinking skills allow you to understand and address situations based on all available facts and information, and using critical thinking at work involves processing and organizing facts.

The article offers online searcher industry news briefs. Topics include Clarivate Plc publicly has released the new and enhanced End-Note 20, an upgrade from EndNote x9, Clarivate Plc has acquired South Korean intellectual property information company Hanlim IPS Co., LTC, and cOAlition S has announced the release of the Journal Checker Tool (JCT) in beta.

The article announces Facebook and The New York Times have launched an augmented reality (AR) news project. Topics include Holtzbrinck Publishing Group announced the departure of John Sargent as a result of disagreements regarding the direction of Macmillan; and the views of the new Register of Copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter, on policy.

The article offers library news briefs as of September 2020. Topics include the release by Third Iron, LLC of two LibKey services, namely, LibKey.io and LibKey Link, the launching by Thomson Reuters of its premium legal news service "Westlaw Today," the inclusion by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO of Books at JSTOR to its Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) services, and the launching by Kahoot! of is Kahoot Learning Content Academy.

The article offers search engine update news brief as of September 2022. Topics include Bing Maps introduced a distance calculator for driving from one place to another, a gas price indicator that searches gas prices; DuckDuckGo decided to downrank sites associated with Russian disinformation; and Google Arts & Culture added seven more indigenous languages on Woolaroo-a Google Arts & Culture experiment that uses machine learning to preserve and help people explore endangered languages.

The article announces awards and appointments, including the election of Neha Thakkar as chairperson of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and the 2022 John Cotton Dana (JCD) Awards to libraries like Niles-Maine District Library from the American Library Association (ALA).

The article offers information on curating breaking news is a service useful to keep library clients abreast of breaking news relevant to their interests as well as a way to showcase the value of the information center. Topic include business people check the news for different reasons, it might be for competitive intelligence, environmental scanning, strategic planning, or purely personal purposes.

The article offers information industry news briefs. Topics discussed include extension of Real Times Media's agreement with ProQuest to grant exclusive worldwide rights; Access Innovations Inc.'s announcement of the deployment of new machine aided indexing system for the American Psychological Association; and William S. Hein & Co. Inc.'s partnership with Alan Keely, associate director for collection services at Wake Forest Law Library.

The article presents the several news on topics including launching of a terminology Service with the SAGE Social Science Thesaurus by SAGE Publishing; introducing of ProQuest of virtual reality and 360-degree viewing product for ProQuest One Academic; and signing of agreement by OCLC with American Academy of Pediatrics, A-R Editions, and e-Marefa.

The article focuses on the trends of disruption associated with technological and political changes resulting challenges among information professionals specifically in the U.S. Topics include the concerns over the fast-moving technology changes in the libraries and democratic institutions such as journalism and schools, the role of information technology in bringing radical changes in the society, and the aspects of intellectual freedom and literacy as the core value of librarianship.

The article evaluates the options for virtual reality (VR) in Literacy Instruction. Topics discussed include creation of VR environment with Infinity Library as the landscape; user scenarios such as rank information in order of veracity or accuracy and identify true or false fact presented; and high cost for creating VR works. It also mention about the main issues addressed by VR project such as student's lack of retention, ineffective lecture format and need for interactive instruction.

The article offers suggestions for products in technology industry including Kyndi 6.0, by Kyndi; Sustainable Development Knowledge Cooperative by Kudos and Impact Science; and Soutron Information Resource Management System (IRMS) by Soutron Global.

The article discusses the changes in news industry of the U.S. including the format of representing the news, newspaper archives, and copyright of the news content. Topics discussed include technological solutions for resolving the permanent digital data storage issues, usage of nano-structured glass to record digital information, and economic challenges in context of current news.

The article offers various news briefs related to developments in the library industry. Topics include OhioLINK has partnered with De Gruyter to provide member libraries with access to six university press electric book collections; and De Gruyter has acquired Mercury Learning and Information, a STEM content provider, to expand its global reach.

The article discusses the topics Bing Maps, Google News, Internet Archive, DuckDuckGo , Google Earth, Kagi search and Orion browser, Google Maps, Google Maps. Presearch launched, Semantic Scholar, Vivaldi, Yande, Yep, Yep is a new search engine from Singaporebased SEO tools company Ahrefs. Yep crawls more than 8 billion webpages every 24 hours using AhrefsBot.

The article offers several news briefs. Topics include examines that Makiba Foster, project director of Broward County Library's African-American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC), and Bergis Jules of Shift Collective have launched the Archiving the Black Web (ATBW) project; and reports that ALA and its divisions offered support to their Ukrainian colleagues, pledging to work with the international library community to meet the appeal from the Ukrainian Library Association.

The article focuses on the roles of libraries in post-truth world with the heated political and social discourse of 2016 was fueled by appeals to emotion and personal belief. Topics discussed include privacy, diversity, social responsibility with Core Values of Librarianship, as expressed by the American Library Association (ALA), libraries have extoled the virtues of information literacy and information and communication technologies are weapons of mass deconstruction.

The article presents news briefs related to information industries. Topics discussed include information on ExLibris, a ProQuest company which announced the creation of the Central Discovery Index; information on Accessible Archives Inc. which completed the process of updating all of its content in the major discovery services like EBSCO Discovery Service, OCLC WorldCat Discovery, and ProQuest; and information on Atairos which acquired a minority ownership position in ProQuest.

The article offers industry related news briefs. Financial Times newspaper partners with :CRUX for knowledge score and reading behavior based suggestions. Elsevier AI Lab opened by Elsevier on the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI). U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission launches Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial technology.

The article offers news briefs related to the electronic publishing sector as of November 2018. Topics include the partnership between Springer Nature and Watson Health to extend Watson's artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to Springer Nature, the availability of PACER Docker Alerts from Free Law Projects on CourtListener.com, and the acquisition of technology startup Lean Library by Sage Publishing.

The article discusses strategic market research firm Northern Light's Millie, a research portal designed for individuals and small enterprises seeking competitive and market intelligence. Topics covered include structure and content of Millie, the structure of Millie's dashboards and Northern Light chief executive officer (CEO) David Seuss' explanation of the idea behind Millie.

The article offers engine news briefs. Topics include Bing uses Microsoft's MEB (Make Every Feature Binary) neural network to improve search results, Brave Search has launched as a full-fledged, privacy-protected search engine in beta within the Brave browser, and DuckDuckGo (DDG) has introduced a privacy-oriented email feature, in beta, that gives users a free @duck.com email address.

The article reports on the information literacy skills. Topics discussed include the opaque algorithms built into monetized platforms, sharing the right personal content online to form positive digital footprint, and encouraging students to examine the platforms and algorithms that impact their lives.

The article presents news briefs on information industry as of January 1, 2018. Topics include selection of Critical Mention by LexisNexis to bolster the real-time television and radio broadcast coverage in LexisNexis Newsdesk; Critical Thinking Expansion Pack offered by Credo to broaden instructional reach provided by its InfoLit Modules and launch of Scientific Society Publisher Alliance (SSPA), an initiative focused on building awareness of and support for publication of scientific research.

The article offers information on the demand of greater engagement by new technology. Topics discussed include excellence of digital collections; data initiatives underway in every sector of higher education; and importance of people's professionals to sow reliable facts in the fields of the public discourse, building coalition. It also mention about the engagement in the art of information management.

The article evaluates the new smart speakers, Echo from Amazon.com Inc.

The article informs that scholars at German universities and research institutes are lapping up the open access publishing made possible by an agreement between Springer Nature and university consortium Projekt DEAL in 2019. It is noted that the publishing industry of Great Britain is under trouble over government proposals to make an exception to copyright laws to allow text and data mining of copyrighted material.