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This section offers news briefs relevant to the information industry compiled as of January 2016. Academic publisher De Gruyterhas introduced a pricing model to prevent the double payment for open access publications that appear in hybrid journals. The U.S. Government Publishing Office has teamed up with the Natioal Archives' Office of the Federal Register to make issue of the "Federal Register" digitally available to the public.