Zotero, the free citation manager is on fire this month with announcements of new funding for two major projects. The first project will see Zotero expanding to work with institutional repositories thanks to funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and collaboration from two universities. Secondly, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a project researching altmetrics and expanding their API enabling bibliometric research and integration into third-party apps. In addition to these exciting ventures, Zotero has also announced that accounts with unlimited storage space are now being offered for an annual fee!

USA Today, among many others, reported on tensions surrounding net neutrality.

A study by the UK Department for Media & Sport shows that visiting libraries and other cultural institutions is “significantly” associated with life satisfaction.  Their study estimates that the monetary value of library use is around $2200 a year!

In this latest edition of blog buzz;

In Between Google Glass and a Hard Place, Librarian and long-time early adopter of new technologies, Jenny Levine discusses her experience of slowly adjusting to using Google Glass.

Bidding has begun between locations in contention to be the future site of Obama’s Presidential Library, where his papers and presidential archives will be housed for future scholars. This story from NPR’s weekend edition discusses potential contenders (including one right here in Manhattan) and the beginnings of the Presidential Libraries.

And now, two amazing resources from the twitterverse;

Korey Jackson (@koreybjackson) of Oregon State University shared this resource for “thinking about computational data review”, Victoria Stodden’s (@victoriastodden, Dept of Statistics at Columbia) slides from a recent conference at UC Davis on the future of scholarly and academic publishing (hashtag #publishperish14), entitled “Reproducibility in Science [;] why all the fuss?” [pdf].

For those of you who are interested in leveraging social media as oncologists and who like myself) missed Robert S. Miller’s (@rsm2800) grand rounds talk, the slides from, “Connectivity, Collaboration, and Disruption: Social Media and the Oncologist“. (hashtag #msk_hcsm14).