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The article offers information on increasing trends of genealogy with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. It mentions that Genealogy depends heavily on newspaper research to peel back the many layers of what makes up a life. It discusses that Newspapers.com has claimed to be the largest online newspaper archive.

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.

In this article, the author presents his views on evolution in the information landscape with time. It mentions information on peer-reviewed journals which are making available the research datasets on which their articles are based, and libraries are curating collections of high-quality open access; and also mentions information on deep searches in fee-based online services, which offer powerful search functions, consistent indexing of reputable published sources, and documented coverage.

The article informs that a federal lawsuit against the Escambia County School Board for book removals can proceed, ruled by a U.S. district court judge in Florida. Topic include Plaintiffs, including PEN America and banned authors, have been granted standing under the First Amendment, challenging the removal of books based on ideology, with classic literary works like The Bluest Eye and Slaughterhouse-Five among those targeted.

The article focuses on Sci-Hub, a free download site that offers easy and free access to scholarly resources. Topics included the description and overview of Sci-Hub, its ethical context, its content of copyrighted articles, its association with information literacy, and its significance in academic publication.

The article offers information about the few trends in the content marketplace including the atomization of content and the rise of the article-based economy. It discusses the article-based economy is gaining interest among publishers, the author remains skeptical about its potential impact on collection design and use patterns. It also provides a brief history of the evolution of online searching and the importance of granular metadata.

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 the challenges of accessing scholarly literature beyond graduation and highlights several Open Access (OA) resources for finding academic sources. The author recommends directories like DOAJ, new tools like Internet Archive Scholar, databases like Dimensions, and platforms like Core and Google Scholar, while also addressing the rise of preprints, OA books, and the limitations and challenges associated with paywalls in academia.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of using optical character recognition (OCR) and machine learning in digitizing rare American Civil War letters and make them accessible to library users.

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.

The article offers information on the findings of a library usability test conducted at the University of Georgia's Alexander Campbell King Law Library (UGA Law Library). It mentions that based on practice runs, the estimated time for completing all parts of the usability test was between 5 and 6 minutes, with the maximum duration for any given part clocking in at 2 minutes 10 seconds; and also mentions the process has allowed to locate certain aspects that need attention.

The article offers information related to specific efforts and technologies that provide prevention related to fake news. Topics discussed include efforts by people and organizations such as mixing technology tools employing algorithms, artificial intelligence, and machine learning; technology start-ups trying to control the spread of fake news; and companies' aim to improve research methods and encourage thoughtful editing decisions.

In the article, the author discusses issues on copyright. Other topics include how to use images based on the fair use doctrine, the resources from the Center for Media & Social Impact about fair use for academic and research libraries, the things libraries to consider regarding the sharing of online content, and the need for libraries to consider copyrighting their collections like images.

The article offers news briefs in the U.S. as of March 2017. Topics mentioned include the launch of a program for displaced researchers to access databases of ProQuest, addition of BIOSIS Previews and Zoological Record resources to the EBSCOhost platform and in EBSCO Discovery Service, and the appointment of Jane Sánchez as law librarian at the Library of Congress.

The article offers news briefs on topics including ProQuest announced that it renamed ProQuest Corporate to Dialog Solutions, with two divisions: Dialog and Pi2; mentions Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) plans to integrate the Altmetric Badges for its books and journals; and also mentions Kudos has enhanced its free service for authors with the addition of a new featured image capability.

In the article, the author discusses some strategies to ensure users are enjoying digital library services amidst the coronavirus pandemic, particularly the use of library metrics. Also cited are their use of targeted access and information counseling to reach potential users, the faculty outreach programs of the University of California--Berkeley (UC-Berkeley) library, and the user training sessions covering topics like information literacy and the future of publishing.

The article offers information on the challenges associated with the handling of the bibliometric indicators. It mentions that resources for bibliometric indicators as handling this shift to electronic dissemination. It discusses that how usage statistics and other metrics gleanable from online access replace the JIF for library collections decision making.

The article reviews the web site "ScienceDirect Topics" located at sciencedirect.com/topics from Elsevier.

The article reviews the web site SAGE Publishing, located at sagepub.com, from the SAGE Publications Inc.

The article discusses the importance of open licenses, a permission granted to access, reuse and distribute a work with few or no restrictions, which was noted to be a key part in the infrastructure of how people and organizations consume and interact with Internet content. It offers information on the types of licenses, the attribution elements of open licenses and steps in working with Creative Commons licenses.

The article evaluates the financial search engine AlphaSense.

The article discusses the negative aspects of the open data movement. Topics include fitness tracking tool Strava that revealed secret military bases, the theft of endangered plants at the Knersvlakte Nature Reserve in Western Cape, South Africa that were tracked using global positioning coordinates from public websites, and re-identification of confidential medical data.

The article offers information on The Wikipedia Library (TWL) as a gateway for the world's library that provides information and reference services for everyone with internet access. Topics discussed include TWL program funded by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, the TWL program now having 51 partners including JSTOR, Oxford University Press and Project Muse, and TWL promoting the Resource Exchange project.

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 features the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center based at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, that analyzes case-by-case government records detail actions for individuals including white-collar criminals and terrorists. TRAC projects discussed include the Judge Information Center, TRACFED data tools on law enforcement by federal government, and TRAC Internal Revenue Service (TRACIRS) for IRS practice examination.

The article discusses developments related to open and public access content from government-funded research, with researchers and the public faced with paywalls when accessing resources. Topics discussed include "Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research" memo from White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to start change in U.S. scientific content access and delivery, and government-funded research made available by National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The article presents news related to search engine. It mentions that Alibi (alibimusic.com) is a new music search engine that searches nearly a quarter-million commercial songs, mixes, stems, cutdowns, loops, and sound effects. It mentions that Apple has added a music recognition button in a recent iOS update that uses Apple-acquired Shazam technology for its search function.

The article discusses all the Internet has a new metasearch engine with database search results for web, news, images, and videos. Topics include Google offering a pre-release version of a Web Stories for WordPress plugin to help webmasters using WordPress create Web Stories; and Google Images includes fact-check labels on images, and a "licensable" label has added on images.

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 offers news briefs related to the upgradations in the search engines as of May 2016. The Bing Image Search was updated for use within the software Microsoft Office and the Microsoft Edge browser. The Google Blogs from the technology company Google have moved to a new domain at googleblog.com. The search engine firm Biz Stone has launched the new search engine Jelly (askjelly.com).

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 presents information on several search engines including Bing, Google, and DuckDuckGo.

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 the importance of informational diversity to produce improved outcomes, as informational monocultures affect good decision making. Topics discussed include fee-based online services as information source, reliance on alternative perspectives and viewpoints from less-traditional sources like social networking service Gacebook and LinkedIn, and maintenance of diversity to change the dynamic as one expands sources considered as useful.

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.