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The article provides information on the current status of the COVID-19 pandemic on its third anniversary. It highlights that the virus is still spreading, with a global death toll nearing 7 million. While many have returned to normal life due to infections and vaccinations, concerns remain about the virus's ability to adapt and produce more dangerous variants.

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 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 article discusses about several challenges faced by librarians ranging from criticism over selection and hiring decisions to online harassment. Topics include a report from New York Times stating that librarians have been labeled pedophiles on social media; a great deal of time and energy put by the librarians in addressing pervasive digital disinformation and misinformation, and some similarities and differences between disinformation and censorship and the challenges they contain.

Statistics are presented regarding the number of U.S. adults who believe that fake news stories, percentage by which the newspaper workforce has contracted in the past 20 years and position of Pokémon GO in the list of the most downloaded apps worldwide from Apple's App Store.

The article reviews the website "ReFigure," offers information on a digital collection of English-language periodicals titled "Left of Liberalism: Marxist-Socialist Newspapers, 1900-2015," and offers information on the digital archive of the magazine "Creative Review."

The article offers information related to developments in libraries from around the world in 2022. The German National Library will showcase a large collection of American comics and related material at the German Museum of Books and Writing in Leipzig. New Zealand's national library has pressed the pause button on plans to donate 600,000 books from its overseas collection to the California-based Internet Archive for digitization.

The article discusses international report of wins and losses. Topics include researchers and scientists which covered by the deal which able to publish their work on the Elsevier platform; views of Elsevier's vice president of communications, Tom Reller on providing open access to the Norwegian articles; views of city's libraries and community spaces manager on structural vulnerabilities.

The article focuses on the legality of preserving the open educational resources (OERs) with information on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York case Great Minds v. FedEx Office and Print Services, Inc. It mentions Court request FedEx Office reimburse Great Minds for its profits and income earned for photocopying Great Minds' materials. It also mentions it foster a sense of anxiety and uncertainty among school districts in their use of OER materials.

The article focuses on Humanities Commons, sharing and collaboration network for people working in and around the humanities and its is managed by Modern Language Association. It mentions the lagging of humanities due to different approaches toward research, information sharing, funding, and workflows. It also mentions Humanities Commons was initially funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The article discusses comments by the European Copyright Society (ESC) on the international copyright and intellectual property legal implications of Internet hyperlinks, arguing that hyperlinking is not an act of communication because no actual content is transmitted. Other topics include a digitization project by the French National Library, the digitization of the Sanskrit work "Ramayana" by the British Library, and a report on electronic book lending in European libraries. INSET: WORLD OF LIBRARIES.

The article presents some of the highlights with respect to the author's use of the Wayback Machine research function. These include the TV News Archive containing clips from around 760,000 new shows broadcast since 2009, the Live Music Archive offering more than 150,000 collections and concerts and the LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection which includes more than 9,000 public domain texts recorded by volunteers worldwide.