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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.

This article is based on a talk I gave at Computers in Libraries in March 2019 (computersinlibraries.infotoday.com/2019/program.aspx#12685). It is not a comprehensive overview of the state of open access (OA)-this isn't possible given that, almost weekly, OA agreements are signed, subscriptions are abandoned, and new models are attempted. Rather, it is a small-scale exploration, via examples from my home institution, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and elsewhere, of two current approaches to moving the scholarly publishing system further toward open-publisher agreements (and disagreements) and academy-owned publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the impotence of financial services and Banking on Financial Services Information. It states about micro lending, in which individuals loan small sums to other individuals and by creating a banking infrastructure without any banks. It states that Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is the regulator for state chartered banks and for trust companies that belong to the system.

The article discusses the trends in books, ebooks, and audibooks in the U.S. as of October 2018, highlighting several studies on the issue. These trends include the declining number of people who read books in any format, the growth of independent bookstores, and the success in business of Amazon.com Inc. Also tackled are the increasing popularity of audiobooks and the impact of digital media technologies on the publishing sector.

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 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.

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.

The article reports that right to be anonymous is protected by the First Amendment. It mentions that First Amendment right to be anonymous is restricted by these considerations, as it does not extend to criminal activity and can be limited when anonymous speech affects the rights of others. It states that review sites offer communications and posts of users whose identities are hidden from their readers behind pseudonyms and usernames. It states that internet has created an order for anonymity.