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MakeUseOf: “When people face censorship, accessing up-to-date and accurate information becomes difficult. Censorship takes many forms, and cutting people off from sources of news, and other information is one of them. Thankfully, there are ways to access current and unfolding news stories online when the regular avenues are cut: Tor. A number of leading news …
Inside Daily Brief: “Even mild COVID-19 infections are associated with loss of brain volume, cognitive impairment, and subtle tissue damage, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Oxford analyzed brain scans of 401 individuals between the ages of 51 and 81, the majority of whom had only had mild COVID-19 cases months …
“This is how journalists figure out if all those Ukraine videos are real. Visual forensics allows reporters to pinpoint the location of images emerging from the conflict and verify their authenticity…While some newsrooms have their own teams (The Post has seven people doing this work, and the Times has a team of 17), there’s also …
CNBC: “Pandemic restrictions may be easing across the country, amid declining Covid cases — but experts say the virus is going to stick around for a long time. That likely means you’ll need another Covid booster shot sometime in the future. The big question is: When? There have been mixed reports on the matter. The …
Oxford University Press: “Since 1987, Women’s History Month has been observed in the US annually each March as an opportunity to highlight the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. This month, we’re sharing some of the latest history titles covering a range of eras and regions but all charting the lives …
Center for Data Innovation – “The Economist has created a visualization depicting changes to commercial flights through Ukrainian airspace after the EU Aviation Safety Agency labeled it an active conflict zone. The visualization shows the flight paths of planes over Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia on February 23rd and 24th. According to the visualization, pilots have …
“The American Oversight nonprofit organization has published more than 10,000 sets of documents amounting to more than a million pages of records, as well as the FOIA requests and responses that produced those records. They can be viewed and searched here: https://www.americanoversight.org/documents. American Oversight is a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog that uses public records requests backed by …
ZDNET: “The National Security Agency (NSA) has released a new report that gives all organizations the most current advice on how to protect their IT network infrastructures from cyberattacks. NSA’s report ‘Cybersecurity Technical Report (CTR): Network Infrastructure Security Guidance‘ is available freely for all network admins and CIOs to bolster their networks from state-sponsored and …
The New Republic – “Amazon is as dominant as ever—and its retail ambitions aren’t going anywhere. But booksellers can toast the end of its disastrous foray into their turf. America’s worst bookstore chain is no more. On Wednesday, Amazon announced it would be closing all 68 of its brick-and-mortar bookstores, as well as its “4-Star” …
Bishop BW, Orehek AM, Eaker C, Smith PL. Data Services Librarians’ Responsibilities and Perspectives on Research Data Management. Journal of eScience Librarianship2022;11(1): e1226. https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2022.1226. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol11/iss1/4. This study of data services librarians is part of a series of studies examining the current roles and perspectives on Research Data Management (RDM) services in higher education. …
Washington Post: “Advocates of an open, globally connected Internet long have worried that a major country or region would break away from the Web amid geopolitical strife, dashing hopes of a seamless network capable of uniting a fractious world. Little more than a week into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world is coming closer to …
American Libraries – “We’ve come a long way since 1994, when a study found that only 21% of public libraries had an internet connection. By 2004, more than 99% of them offered connectivity. Today, nearly 30 years later, libraries are technology hubs where patrons can learn the skills needed to navigate a vast digital world …
