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: U.S. Senate Holds Hearing on Book Bans The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing, “Book Bans: Examining How Censorship Limits Liberty and Literature” was held on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. A keyword searchable version of the video recording is available via the C-SPAN Video Library. |
Crossref Acquires Retraction Watch Data and Opens It for the Scientific Community The Center for Scientific Integrity, the organization behind the Retraction Watch blog and database, and Crossref, the global infrastructure underpinning research communications, both not-for-profits, announced today that the Retraction Watch database has been acquired by Crossref and made an open public resource. An agreement between the two organizations will allow Retraction Watch to keep the data populated on an ongoing basis and always open, alongside publishers registering their retraction notices directly with Crossref. |
SPONSORED BY F1000 Preparing for the Future of Open Access Publishing The OSTP memo has important, and far-reaching, implications for how universities and other institutions share their research findings with the public moving forward. While it will advance the future of open-access publishing significantly, it also will impose many challenges on the academic community. Read more>>> |
Report: “Culture Heritage and Structured Data: How DPLA Became the Biggest Institution to Contribute to Structured Data on Commons” For the past few years, the Culture and Heritage team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been involved with Structured Data-related initiatives in order to engage heritage materials on the Wikimedia projects. Our objective, together with the Structured Data Across Wikimedia (SDAW) team, was to support and increase image usage across the projects, as well as to structure Wikimedia to help it reach communities globally. One of the main projects we worked on together was the initiative with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). |
Just Released: State of the Climate Report 2022 (33rd Annual Report) Greenhouse gas concentrations, global sea level and ocean heat content reached record highs in 2022, according to the 33rd annual State of the Climate report. The international annual review of the world’s climate, led by scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information and published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), is based on contributions from more than 570 scientists in over 60 countries. It provides the most comprehensive update on Earth’s climate indicators, notable weather events and other data collected by environmental monitoring stations and instruments located on land, water, ice and in space. |
FINE ARTS PREMIUM Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun By Kaz Rowe Rowe’s biography portrays a triumph of queer and Jewish resistance in the face of fascism and stands as a tribute to the love that surrounded the lives of Cahun and Moore, not just for each other but for humanity. PREMIUM Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art By Lauren Elkin This book is better suited for academic libraries than for public libraries. PREMIUM Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington By Joanna Moorhead Fans of both Carrington and Moorhead, as well as the newly curious, will snap up this nicely paced introduction to a famous surrealist artist/writer, which is also an account of a deepening familial relationship. What makes this unique among the plethora of books about Carrington is Moorhead’s personal and reflective perspective of family and shared space, despite some distance and time. |
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