Appalachian Figures In the 1970s a hardware-store plainspoken delegate from Maryland’s mountaintop counties learned how to work the levers of Annapolis without losing his Oakland accent. DeCorsey E. Bolden represented Garrett County in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1971 to 1982, sat on Appropriations, and became a reliable voice for local control.
Appalachian Figures William Gay wrote himself out of the backroads around Hohenwald, Tennessee, and into American letters with a voice equal parts lyric and flint. A construction worker for decades who didn’t publish until his mid-fifties, he turned the creeks, hollows, and hard bargains of Middle Tennessee into a personal territory readers now recognize on sight.
The Rogue Scholar science blog archive started work on improving the subject classification of blog posts, using an open approach to subject classification developed by CWTS and OpenAlex.
Welche Regeln des Urheberrechts gelten für die freien darstellenden Künste? Was müssen Personen beachten, die Aufnahmen aus diesem Bereich beim Digitalen Archiv der Freien Darstellenden Künste hochladen oder nachnutzen wollen? Diese und mehr Fragen beantwortet die neu erschienene Handreichung. Über die Inhalte gibt es hier einen kurzen Überblick.
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Israel and the US have accused the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) of being an ‘obstacle to peace’. But many of UNRWA’s shortcomings are a deliberate product of its original set-up – which was engineered by the US itself and supported by Israel.
We are very pleased to announce the release of a new package, dcmstan. The goal of dcmstan is to provide users with a friendly interface for creating Stan scripts necessary for estimating diagnostic classification models (DCMs; also called cognitive diagnostic models [CDMs]). dcmstan is primarily intended to serve as a backend for {measr}, which will interface with {rstan} or {cmdstanr} to actually estimate a DCM.
Crossref was created back in 2000 by 12 forward-thinking scholarly publishers from North America and Europe, and by 2002, these members had registered 4 million DOI records. At the time of writing, we have over 23,600 members in 164 different countries.
This month’s news includes: Research software community news, including South Africa’s National Science and Technology Forum Research Software Awards Research Software Community Leadership Forum (CLF) IRSC Program Committee Opportunities to get involved with community initiatives Resources Community events, including eResearch NZ / eRangahau Aotearoa 2026 Read the November newsletter
We are pleased to announce the publication of our fourth guide from the BMFTR-funded (Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space) project “Professionalisierung der Open-Access-Repositorien-Infrastruktur in Deutschland (Pro OAR DE)”: “Publikations- und Kostenmonitoring: Handlungsfeld für institutionelle Open-Access Repositorien” (available in German only). Matthias, L., Pampel, H., Khamis, C. O., & Rothfritz, L. (2025).