library databases

"Today the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Ithaka S+R released Copyright and Streaming Audiovisual Content in the US Context, by Danielle Cooper and Katherine Klosek.The paper summarizes the experiences of 12 academic libraries in accessing streaming media for teaching, learning, and research purposes, including discussion of the barriers to access and use imposed by certain license terms."

A group of librarians in North America is interested in pursuing the possibility of a collective subscription to Mutefferiqa, a searchable database of Ottoman periodicals and Ottoman printed books. If you are in a North American institution, and you are interested in your institution subscribing to the database, please ask your librarian to contact Guy Burak (guy.burak@nyu.edu) and/or Deborah Schlein (

Siân Harris looks at what role cloud-based services play in libraries today, including their benefits and limitations:

Research Information, Summer 2022, https://content.yudu.com/web/tzly/0A44jfm/RIsum22/html/index.html?page=12

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CNI (The Coalition for Networked Information) recently released a video on Text Data Mining (TDM) Research Using Copyrighted and Use-Limited Text Data Sets: