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eBook Briefs: News from Project Muse, Elsevier, Safari Books Online, and Ingram
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Libraries, News, Publishing
|+ Project MUSE Announces Special Introductory Offer Initiative for UPCC Book Collections + Elsevier Announces New 2012 Frontlist eBooks Collection on SciVerse ScienceDirect Available for Advance Purchase Additional Info Here. + Safari Books Online selects Ingram Content Group to expand its e-content library Education, technology, and business publishers worldwide can now expand the reach of […]
Digital Preservation: Paradigm Publishers to Preserve e-journal with Portico
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Preservation, Publishing
|From the Portico Web Site: Portico is pleased to announce that Paradigm Publishers has entered into an agreement with Portico to preserve its e-journal. Through this agreement with Portico, Paradigm Publishers ensures that its e-journal will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. Portico will be a mechanism to provide post-cancellation access […]
From GCN: The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released for public comment a draft “road map” designed to foster federal agencies’ adoption of cloud computing. The road map also will support private-sector cloud efforts, improve the information available to decision-makers, and facilitate the continued development of the cloud computing model, NIST officials said. “U.S. […]
ACRL Posts Letter to GPO re: Multistate Depository Libraries
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Preservation
|The full text of a letter dated November 2, 2011 from Joyce L. Ogburn, ACRL President to William Boarman, Public Printer of the United States and Mary Alice Baish, Superintendent of Documents is now posted on the ACRL Insider blog. Before sharing the full text of the letter, Ogburn writes: We recognize that there are […]
From a Greg Sterling Post on SearchEngineLand.com: Microsoft has updated its iPhone and Android apps to make them more consistent with the features and user experience in the HTML5 version of Bing. The HTML5 mobile web version of Bing had actually “gotten ahead” of the native apps that Microsoft had developed. New Features Include: Daily […]
"Academic Libraries Expand Their Publishing Services, but With Limited Resources" by Jennifer Howard
|From Jennifer Howard’s Article in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Publishing services offered by academic libraries are “expanding and professionalizing,” says a new report based on a survey of library directors at research and liberal-arts institutions. But those publishing operations are often still hampered by a lack of full-time staffing and by the small scale […]
From the Wikimedia Blog: The Wikimedia Foundation has commissioned a new small-scale study to examine the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia articles. This study, currently being undertaken by Epic, a UK-based e-learning company, and Oxford University, employs greater rigor than the Nature study, involves academics and scholars, and will examine more than just English language […]
Open Source Data Management Tool Launched by University of California Libraries and Partner Institutions
Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users
|From the University of California: The University of California and several other major research institutions have partnered to develop the DMPTool, a flexible online application to help researchers generate data management plans — simple but effective documents for ensuring good data stewardship. These plans increasingly are being required by funders such as the National Science Foundation […]
New Policy Brief: "Humanities Researchers and Digital Technologies: Building Infrastructures for a New Age"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Open Access
|A New Policy Brief from the European Science Foundation. From a Summary: Europe’s leading scientists have pledged to embrace and expand the role of technology in the Humanities. In a Science Policy Briefing released today by the European Science Foundation (ESF), they argue that without Research Infrastructures (RIs) such as archives, libraries, academies, museums and […]
Direct to Indians of the Midwest, Past and Present: (via Newberry Library) The Newberry Library announces the launch of a multimedia educational website supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, titled “Indians of the Midwest, Past and Present.” The website focuses on Native people of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to explore […]