ATG News You Need to Start the Week 4/17/17 | Against The Grain
lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-04-19
Summary:
"E-Books Decline 16.4% and Audiobooks increase by 29.2%; *Library and Archives Canada to move catalogue to WorldCat, use OCLC WMS as its library services platform; *Pearson to partner with Chegg on textbook rentals; *University of Cincinnati announces participation in Open Access Monograph Publishing Initiative; *The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL) Acquires Papers of Literary Icon James Baldwin; *Cornell University Library Releases Over 1700 Digitized Items From Hip Hop Collection Documenting Hip Hop’s Rise; *Pre-1870 Copyright Records, Over 2000 Pages of Records Available; *UH Press wins $90K grant for open-access publishing; *Wharton Research Data Services, SSRN and Elsevier announce new collaboration – elevating research and researchers using WRDS; and *ProQuest and CALIS bring Chinese scholarship to a global audience; plus more library and publishing news from a variety of sources."