Read all about it! ALLUNY Newsletter Summer 2017

The summer 2017 ALLUNY newsletter has been published and can be accessed here: https://www.alluny.org/?page_id=521

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Impact of Professional Associations on the Careers of LIS Professionals

https://www.kate.fyi/blog/the-impact-of-professional-associations-on-the-careers-of-lis-professionals

Why We Need a Constitutional Convention

Why We Need a Constitutional Convention: A progressive’s case for tearing it all down.

LexisNexis Acquires Ravel Law

http://www.lawsitesblog.com/2017/06/breaking-lexisnexis-acquires-ravel-law.html

Easier routes to open access

"How a Browser Extension Could Shake Up Academic Publishing" by Lindsay McKenzie (Chronicle of Higher Education, April 06, 2017) notes two different tools that make it easier to find if an article is freely available.

• Unpaywall is a browser extension that provides info about and links to free versions when you browse to an article behind a paywall;
• Open Access Button is database (also with browser extension) that searches by title, citation, DOI, etc. across multiple sources for freely accessible versions.

Both projects are "open-source, nonprofit, and dedicated to improving access to scholarly research."

Penn State Librarians Create Their Own Superhero Trading Cards

http://onwardstate.com/2017/03/20/penn-state-librarians-create-their-own-superhero-trading-cards/

LexBlog launches Fastcase integration

http://kevin.lexblog.com/2017/03/02/lexblog-launches-fastcase-integration/