MORE 'ROUNDUP' POSTS
Roundup #1: Product Announcements From Seven Companies (ALA Annual Conference 2013)
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, EBSCO, Gale, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Reports, Roundup
|ALA is about ready to begin in Chicago and product announcements are flowing at a steady pace from a number of companies. Here’s our first roundup of news items. More to come. 3M New 3M SelfCheck QuickConnect Interface Brings Revolutionary Options to Libraries and Patrons EBSCO RILM Retrospective Abstracts of Music Literature™ Available from EBSCO […]
Roundup of Press and Public Statements: Library and Archives Canada Heritage Digitization Plan
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Reports, Roundup
|Last week we posted, “Library and Archives Canada Private Deal Would Take Millions of Documents Out of Public Domain”. Since we shared that item there have been several statements, commentaries, and reports about the project. Here’s a roundup. Statements Canadian Research Knowledge Network in Innovative Project to Increase Access to Canadian Documentary Heritage Canada Association […]
Roundup: Feds Have Direct Access to User Data From Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Others
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, News, Patrons and Users, Reports, Roundup, Video Recordings
|Last night (Wed), news broke that Verizon has been providing the U.S. government access to phone records (metadata) from Verizon. This afternoon the ALA shared their views on Verizon story. Internet Data Providers and the NSA. Tonight, reports from The Guardian (they broke the Verizon story) and the Washington Post about the NSA (National Security Agency) having direct access to user data via the servers of Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, and others via a secret project named PRISM.
Publishing: Peter Workman, Founder of Workman Press, Has Died
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Publishing, Roundup, School Libraries
|Mr. Workman passed away on Sunday. He was 74. Here’s a roundup of coverage. Announcement from Workman Publishing Blog He was the founder, president and CEO of Workman Publishing Company, one of the largest independent publishers of nonfiction trade books and calendars. In addition to the Workman imprint, the company consists of Algonquin Books of […]
Here’s a guest post by Jason Hoyt and Peter Binfield published by Scientific American. Hoyt and Binfield are the co-founders of PeerJ. This guest post provides at in-depth look at preprints (rationale for them, history, sources) and also introduces PeerJ PrePrints, a new service that formally went live yesterday. See Also: Scholarly Publishing: PeerJ Launches […]
A New Issue Brief From Library Copyright Alliance: “Impact of Supreme Court Decision in Kirtsaeng v. Wiley”
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, Libraries, New Issue, News, Roundup
|An issue brief that looks at the impact of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kirtsaeng v. Wiley was released today by the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA). The LCA is made up of the following organizations: ACRL, ALA, and ARL. The brief was written by Jonathan Band. From the Issue Brief: This paper first […]
A few items from the past week. 1. Credo Named SIIA Education CODiE Award Finalist for Best Education Reference Solution 2. Scholastic 3Q loss nearly doubles, shares tumble (via AP) ||| Full Text of Q3 Earnings Release (via Scholastic.com) 3. Scholastic Adds HarperCollins Children’s Books to Storia Platform (via Digital Book World) 4. Bookboard Launches App […]
If you use Google Reader to read and share RSS feeds you’re going to need to find a new tool. Google just announced that as of July 1st, 2013 they will “retire” the service. Here’s what they had to say in a blog post: We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make […]
Info Industry Roundup: News From EBSCO, Serial Solutions, OCLC, and Others
EBSCO, Journal Articles, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Roundup
|EBSCO: Additional Resources from Oxford University Press Now Searchable to EBSCO Discovery Service Users EBSCO: eBook Clinical Collection Now Available from EBSCO Publishing Serial Solutions: More than 100 A&I Databases Now Indexed in the Serials Solutions Summon Service OCLC: University of Nebraska Omaha is 100th OCLC WorldShare Management Services user in production Bibliotheca Alexandrina Selects […]
Edwin Mellen Press Drops Lawsuit Against McMaster Librarian Dale Askey
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Publishing, Roundup
|The Edwin Mellen Press has dropped one of two lawsuits against librarian Dale Askey, the press announced in a release dated March 1, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Company. The move came after McMaster University, named as a co-defendant in one of the two suits, reportedly “made arrangements to ensure Associate University Librarian Dale […]