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The article focuses on SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION. Topics discussed include COVID-19 has taken commodity prices and availability on a roller coaster ride that is only in the nascent stages of its journey; and the views of " Diana Haytko, professor and chairperson of the department of marketing and sup ply chain management at the East Carolina University College of Business, on it.

The article offers world news briefs related to digital information as of October 2016. Topics include plan of the European Union to introduce value-added tax on electronic books to harmonize print and ebook rates; the National Library of Israel's plan to acquire papers of author Franz Kafka after the country's Supreme Court ruling that manuscripts are the property of the Library; and digitization of author William Shakespeare's Globe archive in London, England by publisher Adam Matthew.

The article reports that reference manager ReadCube purchased Papers from Springer Nature, where the deal sought to combine Papers reference manager into products like ReadCube Connect.

The article discusses the potential of traditional marketing communication. According to Joe Karasin, head of growth marketing at CircleIt, has plans to try some traditional communication strategies during Q4 2022 and Q1 2023 by placing advertisements in nondigital publications and billboards. Tony Gilbert, communications officer at the nonprofit Masonic Medical Research Institute, tells that people respond positively to good old-fashioned paper letters.

The article highlights the author's favorite open search tools for finding open arts and humanities content. Topics discussed include the JURN search tool, which discovers the full text of open journals in the arts and humanities; the sister tool of JURN called GRAFT, which searches the world's academic repositories, and the extremely poor semantic interpretation of queries resulting in subsequent slowing down of Paperity, a multidisciplinary aggregator of OA journals and papers.

The article discusses that the punch line in the strip harkens back to when Richard Nixon was able to estimate a "collectable" value of his prepresidential personal papers and claim a charitable donation for a $500,000 deduction off of his tax bill.

The article discusses various developments associated with the library industry. It is noted that a new subscription model, Kanopy PLUS, which gives public libraries unlimited access to curated collections at a fixed price, has been started by Kanopy. It is noted that the Library of Congress has added content from New Hampshire, the historical digitized newspapers collection now comprises papers from all 50 states.

The article discusses the best practices in repurposing content to engage and attract audiences to a website. Among the tips are knowing one's content by creating a list of content assets like blog posts, white papers, and case studies, developing a repurposing strategy, and combining small and long form content. Also cited are the comments of experts like Elliott Simmonds of DJS Research Ltd. and Linda Formichelli of Hero's Journey Content.

The article discusses that the company practices management by spreadsheet the employee who's most productive on paper is actually a lackfo who brings down team morale with his ranting.

This section offers news briefs in the information sector as of March 2020. Topics discussed include the Future of Privacy Forum's (FPF) release of a white paper about privacy risks and technologies for enhancing privacy, information analytics company Elsevier's launch of the Novel Coronavirus Information Center which offers information on clinical research about the 2019 corona virus disease (Covid-19), and endowment received by the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled.

Information about several papers discussed at THETA (The Higher Education Technology Agenda) 2017 conference held on May 7–10, 2017, in Auckland, New Zealand, are presented. The topics included Information Technology, Library and Knowledge Management in tertiary education and research with subthemes including Digital Transformation and The Research Ecosystem. The conference features several speakers including beekeeper Nick Wallingford.

The article presents studies which appeared advocating particular approaches that librarians could take to expand their electronic (e)-book collections. ProQuest's February 2017 white paper promotes the use of ebook platforms and support services of ProQuest. The Publishers Communication Group's white paper focuses on benefits for enhanced chapter-level metadata to publishers.

The article discusses how news papers' word factories ran out of ways to make money from words, and they started casting off the ink-stained wretches who had grown up in the newspaper business. It reports that several of the more notable papers have figured out ways to make a little capital, some by using their extensive and well-preserved archives.

The article offers information on the fourth European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) which was held in Prague, Czech Republic from October 10–13, 2016 that drew 287 people from 51 countries. It mentions that the event included workshops, short presentations on best practices, a PechaKucha session, posters, and 97 formal papers.

The article offers information on the Information Today Inc.'s first Taxonomy Boot Camp London, held October 18–19, 2017 a program showcased the range of impacts that taxonomies have on the ability to find content in an organization's repositories, intranet, and external facing websites and portals. It mentions that the event included workshops, short presentations on best practices, posters, and formal papers.

The article offers technology industry news briefs as of May 2018. The Library of Congress (LC) announces the online availability of the papers of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton that include their correspondence, speeches, and materials from the Seneca Falls Convention in New York. Gale Small Business Builder comprehensive tool is offering integrated access to its business and legal resources. Solutions provider bibliotheca debuted its open library solution in North America.

The article focuses on the Panama Papers case managed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a global collaboration of journalists and media properties committed to revealing crimes, especially financial misconduct, on a worldwide scale. The scandal has been analyzed by hundreds of journalists in dozens of countries in a vast trove of data using the latest technologies of data journalism.

The article presents news briefs as of January 1, 2018. Topics discussed include information on the website ScholarlyHub which provides access to research and papers and make scholarship across disciplines both visible and accessible; opening of Turkish library at the Yunus Emre Institute in Johannesburg, South Africa which promotes Turkish language and culture; and improvement in the National Digital Library of India (NDL India).

The article discusses the highlights of the Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference held in Zadar, Croatia on June 16-20, 2014. Topics include qualitative methods and altmetrics in assessing libraries and scholarly communication, the paper "Are Downloads and Readership Data a Substitute for Citations? The Case of a Scholarly Journal" presented by Christian Schloegl, and the conference's conclusion that altmetrics could complement but should not substitute citation data.

The article offers updates related to libraries in the U.S. Multimedia course provider Springer has partnered with Federica Weblearning to sreate options for authors and lecturers on massive open line courses. The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has launched its new website at beta.gpo.gov. ProQuest introduced the Robert E. Lee Papers archive as part of the ProQuest History Vault.

The article focuses on collaboration of the research services firm Kudos with the software firm PaperHive for introduction pilot program related to expansion of academic paper publications. It states enhancement of services related to management of social activity with maintenance of codes along with shared data. It mentions views of the Kudos co-founder David Sommer over integration of six months program with usage of plain language summaries in articles.

The author offers information on content management in publishing industries with use of content strategies. He states the publishing industries need to put emphasis on the structure and processes to store and maintain contents rather than only creating books, reports, papers and articles. He mentions of sources for users to access materials including databases containing citations, abstracts and references, learning management systems and printed catalogs.

The article offers information related to library and books. Topics include the opinion of Court of Justice of the European Union's (CJEU) advocate general Maciej Szpunar on the case about the lending rights of electronic books, a pilot deal between Bibsam university and publisher Springer Nature to allow researchers with access on research papers based on Open Access (OA), and the library building in Bandung, Indonesia made of recycled plastic ice cream buckets.

The article focuses on Big Data in the enterprise search of IBM/Vivisimo. Topics discussed include the significance of the 2010 white paper "Optimizing Big Data With Search," by Mark Myers, the approach of IBM/Vivisimo in enterprise search using the mantra of the three V's of volume, velocity, and variety, the digital exhaust that is Big Data, the interesting facts contained in the 2010 document and its influence on enterprise search vendors, and the solution to content-processing challenges.

The article announces several personal changes and awards related to librarians in the U.S., as of June 2016, including appointment of Krishna Nathan at S&P Global, Cheryl A. Middleton at Oregon State University, and presentation of Springer's Howard E. Brandt Best Paper Award to Mun Dae Kim.

The article announces the 2016 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award given to dean James L. Mullins of Purdue University and the Best Paper Award 2015 received by David Calligaris from the journal "Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC)."

The article focuses on the agreement of not-for-profit firm Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) and the Taylor & Francis Group (T&FG) to set lower fees or provide free article processing charge (APC) for works of researchers from nations with developing economies. Topics covered include EIFL as signatory in the Budapest Open Access Initiative and the open access (OA) journals of T&FG and Routledge. Also mentioned are peer review of submitted papers and the Counter initiative of EIFL.

The article announces the recipients of various awards including the De Gruyter Saur/IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) Research Paper Award 2015 given to Ana Pervan, the Florida Atlantic University's (FAU) Exceptional Faculty Award given to Victor C.X. Wang, and the 2015 Award for Meritorious Achievement given to Amy Brand by the Council of Science Editors (CSE).

In the article, the author discusses about data management discrimination in data-collection systems and predictive maintenance. It mentions the term Big Data and how it leaves out categories of critical datasets. It cites the release of GE white paper "The Value of Interconnectedness." The author also suggests the rethinking of standards for data architecture.

The article offers information on SciDetect, an open source software program designed to check for fake scientific papers, by international science and technology publisher Springer.

This section offers digital information news briefs including Nature Publishing Group's (NPG) offering of double-blind peer review for its authors, the Global Commission on Internet Governance's latest working paper on Internet governance, and cybersecurity, and the Web of Things initiative.