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March 7, 2024 Elizabethuncategorized

From Nature: Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet. An analysis of DOIs suggests that digital preservation is not keeping up with burgeoning scholarly knowledge.

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February 20, 2024February 20, 2024 Elizabethuncategorized

Announcement from Clarivate: 2024 Journal Citation Reports: Changes in Journal Impact Factor category rankings to enhance transparency and inclusivity

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Cancellation – OCLC FirstSearch

February 12, 2024 ahenrycancellations

After receiving input from several library units, as well as ISUE staff and FE librarians, we made the decision to cancel FirstSearch effective December 31, 2023. Staff let us know that they use Worldcat.org for the type of searches we would once have done via FirstSearch, so this subscription was […]

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New Soviet and Ukrainian Newspaper Archives

February 12, 2024 Elizabethuncategorized

We now have access to three new collections from Phase II of the CRL Newspaper Alliance project: Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers (900+ titles)              Post-Perestroika Newspapers (16 titles)                Soviet-Era Ukrainian Newspapers (5 titles)               

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February 12, 2024February 12, 2024 Elizabethuncategorized

From Nature:Fake research papers flagged by analysing authorship trendsA new approach to detecting fraudulent paper-mill studies focuses on patterns of co-authors rather than manuscript text.

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