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Expanding Database: Thomson Reuters Plans to Add 10,000 New Books to Book Citation Index During 2013
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Conference Presentations, Elsevier, Journal Articles, News, Patrons and Users
|Thomson Reuters first launched Book Citation Index during October, 2011. Now, Today’s Index Expansion News: Through partnerships with top publishers such as Elsevier, Johns Hopkins University Press and the University of Chicago Press. These publishers, among others, will greatly enhance available content in the Index by adding 10,000 books in 2013, increasing the total to […]
Japan: National Diet Library Begins Testing of Great East Japan Earthquake Archive
Associations and Organizations, Conference Presentations, Data Files, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users
|From The Asahi Shimbun: The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, jointly with the National Diet Library, on Jan. 10 will start tests [protoype available] of a “Great East Japan Earthquake Archive,” an integrated data management system for more than 100,000 items related to the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. It plans to […]
The Ames Library at Illinois Wesleyan University Makes Changes After ERIAL Report on Student Library Use
Academic Libraries, Conference Presentations, Data Files, Libraries, News
|Note: A wide variety of materials (including background, conference presentations, newspaper articles, etc.) from the ERIAL project can be accessed here. At the bottom of this post we’ve also included a link to a follow-up study that has been made available as a preprint. From Illinois Wesleyan University: Findings from a two-year study of how […]
Conference Proceedings: 9th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2012)
Archives and Special Collections, Conference Presentations, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Preservation
|The iPRES Conference took place at the University of Toronto during October 2012. You can access the complete proceedings (350 pages; PDF) here. Of course, not everything discussed at the conference or at any conference for that matter comes from papers and other presentations. In a series of blog posts that debuted earlier today, bram […]
Important Read: Archivist Jason Scott Has A Lot to Say About Wikipedia
Conference Presentations, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|Wikipedia can be a useful reference resource and IF you understand how it works (or doesn’t work) in both theory and in practice (often very different things) can be even more useful. Of course, it’s A resource, NOT the resource. Sadly, many users don’t realize this and don’t use a wide variety of research and […]
NARA: National Archives Posts Unsealed Watergate Records Online
Archives and Special Collections, Conference Presentations, News
|From The Washington Post: The weekend reading load for Watergate aficionados became a lot heavier Friday when the National Archives and Records Administration posted online nearly 1,000 pages of formerly sealed records relating to the infamous burglary case. The newly released documents come from the U.S. v. Liddy criminal trial against seven of the individuals involved in the […]
From the FDLP Desktop: The Depository Library Council Meeting and Federal Depository Library Conference was held in Arlington, VA from October 15-18, 2012. During this time; the Depository Library Council, U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) staff, Federal agency representatives, and members of the depository library community participated in over 40 educational sessions that discussed GPO’s […]
Just In: U.S. Copyright Office Publishes Final Rule With DMCA Exemptions
Associations and Organizations, Conference Presentations, News
|The final rule with DMCA exemptions will be published tomorrow (October 26, 2012) in the Federal Register but a pre-publication version of the full text is available now. The effective date for the final rule is October 28, 2012. The exemptions come after the Fifth Triennial Section 1201 Rulemaking Proceeding conducted by the U.S. Copyright […]
Findings: ProQuest Study Looks Beyond Journals to Identify What Other Sources Faculty Consult for Research
Conference Presentations, Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Reports
|The new findings (full text white paper linked below) were released today at the same time ProQuest announced they’re beginning to provide access to working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), a source we often share full text material from, in ABI/Inform, ProQuest Central, and other products. More about it here. Now, to […]
Thomson Reuters Launches Data Citation Index for Discovering Global Data Sets
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|Note: TR first announced that Data Citation Index was in the works during ALA. From Thomson Reuters: The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters announced today the launch of the Data Citation Index, a research resource within the Web of Knowledge to facilitate the discovery, use and attribution of data sets and data […]