MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2013
This is the first deliverable from a Gale/Smithsonian digitization agreement was announced earlier this year. From Today’s Announcement: The new archive will include the complete back files of both magazines. Air & Space and Smithsonian Magazine Archive presents decades of in-depth coverage and unique insights into innovation, history, science, technology, space exploration, aviation, the arts […]
From a Post by Ed Lang on American University’s Intellectual Property Brief: Delegates of the World Intellectual Property Organization are scheduled to meet in Marrakesh, Morocco from June 17-28 for a diplomatic conference to negotiate the terms of a treaty defining copyright exceptions for the visually impaired. The delegates’ ultimate goal is to ensure the blind and […]
Indiana: Muncie Public Library to Cut Hours and Staff
Funding, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles, Public Libraries
|From The Star-Press (Muncie, IN): MPL Director Virginia Nilles on Tuesday announced that, in order to trim $400,000 from its expenditures this year, the library would lay off a still-to-be-determined number of employees and, consequently, reduce hours at the two main branches Though the number of layoffs is still not set, they will come from […]
From The Guardian (School Newspaper at UC San Diego) UCSD’s discipline-based libraries, which include the Biomedical Library and academic collections within Geisel Library, will be eliminated beginning June 30 as part of further internal restructuring for university libraries. Following these transitions, the Arts, Science and Engineering and Social Sciences and Humanities libraries within Geisel, in […]
About five months ago (117 days/2808 hours ago to be more precise) we pointed out that info industry veteran and a very good friend/colleague/mentor, Stephen Abram, was moving from a VP job at Gale/Cengage and going to work as a consultant at Toronto’s Dysart Jones Associates. Today, more Stephen Abram news! Stephen has been named the new executive […]
From Experian Hitwise: New data from Experian Marketing Services’ mobile and digital panel sheds light on the way smartphone users spend time using their phone, with the average adult clocking 58 minutes daily on their device. On average, smartphone owners devote 26% of the time they spend on their phone talking and another 20% texting. […]
“CrossRef’s FundRef Launches: Publishers and Funders Track Scholarly Output”
Associations and Organizations, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Elsevier, Funding, Libraries, News, Publishing
|Note: The CrossRef FundRef pilot project was announced about one year ago. Now, the service has formally launched. From a CrossRef Blog: FundRef, the funder identification service from CrossRef, is now available for publishers to contribute funding data and for retrieval of that information. FundRef is the result of collaboration between funding agencies and publishers […]
Harvard Library Launches Research Data Collaborative
Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation, Reports
|From a Harvard Library Announcement: The Harvard Library, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost, IQSS Dataverse Network and HUIT, is launching the Research Data Collaborative (RDC) to develop research data management services. The RDC program’s FY14 goals include creation of tiered data management training for researchers and librarians, a University-wide data compliance network, […]
The following draft of a book chapter (scheduled for publication in 2014) was posted to arXiv a few days ago. It will be published in a book that will be published in 2014. Details below. Title The Most Controversial Topics in Wikipedia: A Multilingual and Geographical Analysis Authors Taha Yasseri University of Oxford Department of […]
Here are a few recently updated reports published by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) that the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) has made available on the organization’s web site. All reports are PDF. Thanks to Steven Aftergood for making these and many other reports accessible. 1. Cybersecurity: Authoritative Reports and Resources May 24, 2013. 2. […]