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FROM THE SCHOLARLY KITCHEN: The Predator Effect- Fraud in the Scholarly Publishing INdustry: An Interview with Simon Linacre
By LISA JANICKE HINCHLIFFE NOV 28, 2022 Today Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe interviews Simon Linacre, author of the recently published book, The Predator Effect: Understanding the Past, Present and Future of Deceptive Academic Journals, and Head of Content, Brand & Press at Digital Science. First off, congratulations on the publication of your book The Predator Effect. It is a notable accomplishment to get from an idea to a published monograph! What inspired you to write this text...
Don’s Conference Notes: The Internet Librarian 2022 Conference
By Amy Affelt (Director, Database Research Worldwide, Compass Lexecon) Column Editor: Donald T. Hawkins (Freelance Editor and Conference Blogger) Column Editor’s Note: I am delighted to welcome Amy Affelt from Compass Lexecon as a guest columnist for this installment...
Don’s Conference Notes- Creating the New Possible: Shaping the Future from Lessons Learned: The 2022 New Directions in Scholarly Publishing Seminar
By Donald T. Hawkins (Freelance Editor and Conference Blogger) This seminar (the 6th in a series) was organized by the Education Committee of the Scholarly for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) and consisted of a keynote address followed by 6 plenary sessions that discussed...
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Sunrise on Long Beach Island, NJ (photo by Donald T. Hawkins) The photo above is appropriate for the final posting of this year's blog. It shows sunrise, not sunset, because it provides an optimistic view of future Charleston Conference. Everyone agreed that this...
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National Archives Begins Work on 1960 Census Records Release – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 11/30/22
National Archives Begins Work on 1960 Census Records Release (via infoDOCKET) According to National Archives News "Though genealogists and other researchers are still busy researching the 1950 U.S. Federal Census, which the National Archives released entirely online...
ATG Newsflash: Offline Internet Consortium Receives $300,000 Arcadia Grant
OFFLINE Internet Consortium Receives $300,000 Arcadia Grant The non-profit Offline Internet Consortium (OLI) is delighted to receive a $300,000 grant from UK-based Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. When half the world’s population has...
SPIE and scite partner to enhance the citation experience on the SPIE Digital Library – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 11/29/22
SPIE and scite partner to enhance the citation experience on the SPIE Digital Library Citing a press release, KnowledgeSpeak reports that "scite, ... , has partnered with SPIE, the international society for photonics and optics, to enhance the citation experience on...
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ATG Job Bank for 11/27/22
NORTH Assistant/Associate Librarian, UMass Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA Visual and Performing Arts Librarian (Assistant Professor or Instructor - Queens College - Flushing, NY Discovery & eResources Management Librarian -University of Massachusetts - Amherst -...
ATG Job Bank for 11/20/22
NORTH Reference Librarian, Springfield College, Springfield, MA Research & Instruction Librarian for Student Success - University of Scranton – Scranton, PA Access Services Coordinator, Harvard Library, Cambridge, MA Access Services Librarian, Head of Access...
ATG Job Bank for 11/13/22
NORTH Cataloger, Northeastern University, Boston, MA Dean of Libraries, Lafayette College - Lafayette College – Easton, PA Remote Collections & Lending Specialist - Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Collection and Discovery Specialist - Harvard...