Welcome to LJAN Resources, our monthly academic content roundup. We’ll be curating standout InfoDocket posts and nonfiction LJ book reviews once every month for quick access to news and reviews you can use. |
From Infodocket: Registration Now Open For 3rd Annual United Nations Open Science Conference (Virtual Event, February 8-10, 2023) From the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, United Nations: The 3rd United Nations Open Science Conference [is scheduled] from 8 to 10 February 2023 (9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. New York Time). It is organized by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library of the United Nations Department of Global Communications in collaboration with the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division of Sustainable Development Goals, and UNESCO’s Division of Science Policy and Capacity-Building. |
Scholarly Publishing: JSTOR and University Press Partners Announce Path to Open Books Pilot Project From a JSTOR Announcement: Launching as a pilot, Path to Open libraries will contribute funds to enable participating presses to publish new books that will transition from licensed to open access within three years of publication. The initial pilot will produce about one thousand open access monographs. If successful, it will lay the foundation for an entirely new way to fund long-form scholarship while vastly increasing its impact. |
New Research Tools: “Introducing Jot — A New Open-Source Tool That Help Researchers With Journal Selection” From the Yale School of Public Health: Say hello to Jot: a free, open-source web application that matches manuscripts in the fields of biomedicine and life sciences with suitable journals, based on a manuscript’s title, abstract, and (optionally) citations. Developed by the Townsend Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, Jot gathers a wealth of data on journal quality, impact, fit, and open access options that can be explored through a dashboard of linked, interactive visualizations. |
New Online Resource: “Archive of Tree of Life Attack and Aftermath Goes Public” From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Years of painstaking and often emotional collecting and curating became tangible to the public Tuesday with the launch of an online archive documenting the Oct. 27, 2018, attack on the Tree of Life synagogue and the immense outpouring it sparked. The online archive, october27archive.org, is still in its infancy, featuring 150 specially selected documents, screen captures and photos. It was created by the Heinz History Center’s Rauh Jewish History Program and Archive, which has also overseen the entire documentation and archival process. |
Tell LJ about using Open Source in your library Library Journal is searching for academic libraries using open source software (or developing code) to customize library applications. If this describes your library, please tell us about the platforms used and reasons for turning to open source technology/coding over proprietary software. This very brief survey will take less than 4 minutes of your time. Start survey:https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7073175/Open-Source-Solutions-Survey Our goal is to identify and increase awareness of how academic libraries can take ownership of their software via open source or independent development. |
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