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Available for iOS today. Android app coming in early 2012. From the RSC Web Site: The Royal Society of Chemistry has launched a free mobile app that is now available on iTunes. RSC Mobile provides readers with access to search RSC journal content from the RSC Publishing Platform. Users at any institution or organisation that […]
43 women who have won Nobel Prizes (all categories). Here’s a list of the 15 of those women have won the Nobel Peace Prize since it was first awarded in 1901. Direct to the List Provided by Reuters (via Alertnet)
On Demand Books (Espresso Book Machine) Will Sell More 7 Million Espresso Machine Titles On Google
|On Demand Books (providers of the Espresso Book Machine) will add more than 5 million titles to the 2 million titles already listed for sale on Google Books and Google Product Search. From On Demand Books (PDF): On Demand Books he company behind the Espresso Book Machine (EBM), announced it will register the EBM network […]
The following article appears in the FDLP Library Connection Newsletter (October 2011, Vol. 1 Issue 3). From the Article: With an interest in increasing public access to court opinions, the Judicial Conference approved a recommendation of its Court Administration and Case Management Committee for a pilot project to make lower Federal court opinions available through […]
From the FDLP Desktop: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has been keeping track of the upcoming implementation of the new cataloging standards, Resource Description and Access (RDA). The RDA project page has been updated with new information about changes to the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) as a result of RDA implementation at […]
Via No Shelf Required: Will we ever have an eBook written by Albert Einstein? YES! Springer announced today plans to digitize their entire backlist, approximately 65,000 titles dating back to 1840. Read the Complete Blog Post and News Release
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology October/November 2011 Vol. 38. No. 1 From the Table of Contents: Special Section: Libraries, Librarians and Mobile Services Libraries, Librarians and Mobile Services by Lisa Carlucci Thomas, guest editor of special section Full Text: HTML | PDF The Mobile Future of Place-Based Digital Collections by […]
These visualizations were recently shared on VisualComplexitity and added to their wonderful searchable/browsable database. 1. Wikipedia Edits During Middle-East Protests by Elijah Meeks [The four images shown] are from a short, dynamic visualization of edits to Wikipedia pages from December 1st to February 20th, 2011. It focuses on pages about nations where protests and revolutions […]
1. EBSCO Discovery Service Expands German Content with the Addition of Social Sciences Information from SOFIS and SOLIS 2. EBSCONET ERM Essentials Made Even Better! 3. Elsevier Introduces SciVerse Scopus Alerts Individual 4. Elsevier and the University of Sydney Announce Prize Winners of 24-Hour Hackathon 5. ProQuest Unlocks New Paths for Research of Key African […]