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| President Nominates Intellectual Property Advocate as Trade Rep |
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by Woody Evans
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| On Jan. 3, 2017, Robert Lighthizer was nominated to the position of United States Trade Representative, and on March 14, he sat before the Senate for his confirmation hearing. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) says that Lighthizer will be "a critical player in ensuring that America's trade agenda reflects U.S. commercial interests, while helping set the standard for global trade." |
| IFLA Launches Metropolitan Libraries Short Film Contest |
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| The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is calling for submissions to its 2017 IFLA Metropolitan Libraries Short Film Award contest. The award, sponsored by the Free Library of Philadelphia, honors short films about public libraries and librarians in large cities and metropolitan areas. ... |
| IMLS Speaks Out on Federal Budget |
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| Kathryn K. Matthew, director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), released a statement on the president's proposed FY2018 budget. |
| Impactstory Rolls Out OA Article Finder |
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| Impactstory introduced Unpaywall, a Chrome extension that links users to free, full-text versions of research articles as they browse for them online. |
| Clarivate Analytics Debuts Garfield Award |
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| Clarivate Analytics is starting a memorial scholarship to honor Eugene Garfield's legacy. The Eugene Garfield Information Sciences Pioneer Award "will be given annually to at least one promising information scientist, selected by a board of prominent scientometricians," according to the press release. |
| Academic Associations Plan OA Publishing Initiative |
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| The Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the AAUP (Association of American University Presses) will begin a new initiative this spring to increase the dissemination of humanities and humanistic social sciences research by faculty members in these fields. |
| Alexander Street Strikes a Chord With Open Music Library |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| As part of Alexander Street's Open Music Library (OML) initiative, music scholars, students, teachers, and librarians can work toward building what could become the world's most comprehensive open network of digital resources for studying music--including peer-reviewed journal articles, books, music scores, and audio and video recordings. |
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