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ALA Midwinter 2018 Company Announcements Roundup
| Associations and Organizations, EBSCO, Ex Libris, Libraries, News, Roundup
We will update this post as we learn about news/announcements coming out of the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver. 1. Five Partners Join Ex Libris in Developing New “Esploro” Research Services Platform ||| Esploro Info Page 2. hoopla digital expands children’s eBook collection with prized content from Candlewick Press 3. FOLIO Library Services Platform to Benefit from […]
News Roundup (February 8, 2018)
| Associations and Organizations, Awards, EBSCO, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Roundup
1. Hypothesis and the Center for Open Science Collaborate on Annotation 2. National Science Foundation Sends “Important Notice” Re: Sexual Harassment to Presidents of Universities and Colleges and Heads of Other National Science Foundation Grantee Organizations ||| New NSF Harassment Info Resources (Policies, Procedures) Portal 3. New Lower Prices for DuraCloud Subscriptions with 20+ TB […]
Research Article: “The Secret Lives of Ebooks: A Paratextual Analysis Illuminates a Veil of Usage Statistics”
| Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, EBSCO, Libraries, News, Open Access
The following article was recently published online by Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. The link below is to an open access version of the article made available by one of the authors. Title The Secret Lives of Ebooks: A Paratextual Analysis Illuminates a Veil of Usage Statistics Authors Jonathan H. Harwell […]
News Roundup (January 4, 2017)
| Associations and Organizations, EBSCO, Libraries, News, Preservation, Roundup
1. Jacqueline Woodson Named 6th National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, 2018-2019 ||| NY Times Coverage 2. 12 LIS Professionals Selected to Participate in the Inaugural ALA Policy Corps 3. Standards: NISO to Manage U.S. Group Dedicated to Document Description and Processing Languages 4. Take a Look at a New Video: Come to the University […]
News Roundup (December 5, 2017)`
| Associations and Organizations, Data Files, EBSCO, Funding, Gale, News, Roundup
1. Higher Education: “Cengage Unlimited” Launches, On-Demand Access to ALL Cengage Digital Higher Education Materials For One Fee 2. Florida: Santa Rosa County School District Decides to Not Remove Fahrenheit 451 From 8th Grade Curriculum (via CBLDF) 3. History: 100,000 Items From Oklahoma’s “OK Hub” Now Discoverable in DPLA 4. Movie About MIT Hacktivist Aaron Swartz in […]
News Roundup (November 29, 2017)
| Digital Preservation, EBSCO, Libraries, News, Roundup, Video Recordings
1. Now Available: Video Recordings of Presentations From the Smithsonian Digitization Fair 2017 (Playlist) 11 videos (More to Come). The 2017 Digitization Fair took place on October 18-19, 2017. Conference Program. 2. At the British Library: Crowdsourcing Using IIIF and Web Annotations (via BL Digital Scholarship Blog) 3. Chalmers University of Technology Named First FOLIO Beta […]
New Projects and Partnerships: Say Hello to OpenDissertations.org
| Data Files, EBSCO, Libraries, News, Open Access
News of the OpenDissertations.org project via a new Bibliolabs and EBSCO partnership. From the OpenDissertations.org Web Site: and News Release OpenDissertations.org is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs that brings an innovative approach to increasing traffic and discoverability of ETD research. The project is open to libraries around the world and currently includes: the British […]
News Roundup
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, EBSCO, Libraries, News, Open Access, Roundup
1. White Nationalists Place Banner on Texas State University Library (via Spectrum News Austin) 2. Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Announces Winners of 2018 Election 3. Five HeinOnline Legal and Government-Related Info Databases Now Available on EBSCOhost and EBSCO Discovery Service 4. Open Access: Usage of Knowledge Unlatched Titles Doubled Within One Quarter
EBSCO Releases Serials Price Projection Report for 2018
| Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, EBSCO, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Reports
From EBSCO: The 2018 Serials Price Projection Report from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is now available. The report projects that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic/medical libraries are expected to be in the range of five to six percent (before currency impact). EBSCO releases the Serials Price Projections based on surveys […]
From the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC): SUPC, with its English and Welsh Higher Education (HE) consortia partners, has recently awarded a national agreement for Books, eBooks, Standing Orders and Related Materials. The agreement, which will run from 1 August 2017 – 31 July 2019, is one of the largest value global book agreements… [Clip] This […]
