Internet Archive's Ebook Loans Face UK Copyright Challenge (A. Flood, The Guardian, January 22)
"The Society of Authors has called on the website’s Open Library to stop making scanned books ‘unlawfully’ available to British readers."  Read more
@guardian

Digital Single Market: EU Negotiators Reach a Breakthrough to Modernise Copyright Rules (European Commission, February 13)
"The European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the Commission found a political agreement to make the copyright rules fit for digital era in Europe and bring tangible benefits to all creative sectors, the press, researchers, educators, cultural heritage institutions, and citizens." Read more
@EU_Commission

(and in response to the announcement above)
A New Copyright Directive: Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater! (LIBER, February 11)
"The EU draft Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market is reaching the end game. In the run up the European elections in May this year, the Commission, Council and Parliament are having to agree the final wording of this new Directive.  As reported by LIBER recently two articles remain extremely controversial – Article 11 and Article 13. We are concerned this could jeopardise the future of the whole Directive." Read more
@LIBEReurope

Transitioning Society Publications to Open Access (K. Smith, In the Open, February 11)
"Recognizing the crucial role that societies have played–and must continue to play in advancing scientific research and scholarship–a group of OA advocates, library stakeholders, and information strategists has organized to provide concrete assistance to society journals." Read more
@IOIntheOpen

Portage Progress Report for the Period of October - December 2018 (Portage, February 11)
Rapport d’étape de Portage pour la période d’octobre à décembre 2018 (Portage,11 février)
The Portage Progress Report for the fourth quarter of 2018 is now available. It summarizes Portage activities and accomplishments corresponding to the goals outlined in the Portage Business Plan: 2017-2018. //  Un rapport d’étape du réseau Portage pour le quatrième trimestre de 2018 est maintenant disponible. Le rapport résume les activités et les réalisations de Portage qui correspondent aux objectifs décrits dans le Plan d’entreprise de Portage : 2017-2018. Read more  Lire la suite
@portageCARLABRC 

FAIRe vivre les données de recherche : retours d’expérience sur l’organisation, la préservation et le partage (Le réservoar, 13 février)
« Le 13 décembre 2018 le groupe Dialogu’IST, réseau Renatis, a animé le 7e atelier de formation sur la thématique de gestion et de valorisation des données de la recherche dans les laboratoires. Cet atelier fut l’occasion de divers retours d’expérience sur l’organisation, la préservation et le partage des données de la recherche. » Lire la suite 
#DialoguIST

New Research Article (Preprint): "Blacklists" and "whitelists" to Tackle Predatory Publishing : A Cross-sectional Comparison and Thematic Analysis (M. Strinzel​, A. Severin, K. Milzow, Matthias Egger, Peer J Preprints, February 13)
"Despite growing awareness of predatory publishing and research on its market characteristics, the defining attributes of fraudulent journals remain controversial. We aimed to develop a better understanding of quality criteria for scholarly journals by analysing journals and publishers indexed in blacklists of predatory journals and whitelists of legitimate journals and the lists’ inclusion criteria." Read more
@MichStrin @eggersnsf @annasvrn @PeerJPreprints

ARL Annual Salary Survey 2017–2018 (S. Morris, ARL, February 12)
"This report analyzes salary data for all professional staff working in the 123 ARL member libraries during FY2017–2018. Data for 10,518 professional staff members were reported this year for the 114 ARL university libraries, including their law and medical libraries (862 staff members reported by 72 medical libraries and 715 staff members reported by 74 law libraries)." Read more
@ARLnews

Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Enabling New Scholarship through Increasing Access to Unique Materials 
This national grant competition is "administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for digitizing rare and unique content in collecting institutions. The program is generously supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is built upon the model of CLIR’s Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program (2008-2014)." Applications for the 2019 cycle are due by April 3. More information
@CLIRnews 

New Leader for Harvard Library (Harvard Gazette, February 12)
CARL wishes to congratulate Martha Whitehead (currently at Queen's University) who has been named Harvard University librarian, vice president for the Harvard Library, and the Roy E. Larsen Librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Science. More information
@HarvardLibrary ‏

2019 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences – June 1-7, Vancouver, BC
"Congress 2019 is a meeting of meetings comprised of 73 different scholarly associations holding their own annual conferences, making it the largest academic gathering in Canada. In addition, a large number of events are opened to all attendees, including the general public." Early bird rate expires March 31. More information
@ideas_idees ‏#congressh

CFP: 6th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute Conference – July 31 - August 1, Waterloo, ON
"A partnership between Brock University, the University of Guelph, Ryerson University, the University of Toronto Scarborough Library, and the University of Waterloo, the two day conference will include keynote addresses, presentations, workshops, and digital tool training that focus on the innovative use of digital technologies to enhance and transform undergraduate and graduate teaching." Call for Proposals Closes March 31, 2019. More information
@BrockUniversity @uofg @RyersonU @UTSCLibrary ‏@UWaterloo

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