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Topping the list again this year is a name known to all in the information world, Thomson (as in Thomson Reuters). The Thomson Family tops the 2011 Rich 100 list with a net worth of $21.34B/CDN. Direct to Introduction and Links Direct to Complete List Direct to World’s Billionaire Map Direct to Wealthiest Canadian Celebrities […]
Web Communications & New Media/Dot Gov Task Force: HHS Interim Progress Report Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has formally notified GSA that it is relinquishing 21 domains. HHS is in the process of relinquishing additional sites and expects to have relinquished a total of […]
From JISC: More than 80,000 fascinating documents that uncover the lives led by Yorkshire women such as Charlotte Bronte in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are now only a mouse click away. A major website launches today hosted by the University of Huddersfield, developed in partnership with West Yorkshire Archives Service and funded by JISC. […]
Freebie Alert: 22 Emerald Health and Social Care journals in Free Access for World Mental Health Day
|From Emerald: In support of World Mental Health Day, held annually on 10 October to raise public awareness about mental health issues worldwide, Emerald Group Publishing is providing free access to its complete collection of health and social care journals. In total, 22 journals can be read online from 10 October for a period of […]
ACRL Signs Berlin OA Declaration, Encourages Others
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
|From ACRL Insider: ACRL is proud to join the growing ranks of signatories to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and the Humanities and encourages college and research libraries, as well as other campus groups, to do likewise. The Declaration builds on the significant progress of the Budapest Open Access […]
New Issue Alert: International Journal of Digital Curation: Vol 6, No 2 (2011)
Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, New Issue, Open Access, Preservation
|Here’s the complete table of contents. Direct to abstracts that include links to full text articles (PDF). Table of Contents Vol 6, No 2 (2011) Editorial Editorial Kevin Ashley Papers (Peer-reviewed) Citation and Peer Review of Data: Moving Towards Formal Data Publication Sarah Callaghan, Bryan Lawrence, Sam Pepler, Catherine Jones, Brian Matthews Curating Scientific Research […]
Made available online (free, registration required) today by Experian/Simmons. The report is full of color charts. From an E-Mail Summary: Fully 91% of online adults today, or 129 million individuals, access social media in a typical month. 98% of online 18-to 24 year-olds already use social media each month. The greatest growth sector is among […]
Six Provocations for Big Data The era of Big Data has begun. Computer scientists, physicists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and many others are clamoring for access to the massive quantities of information produced by and about people, things, and their interactions. Diverse groups argue about the potential benefits and costs of analyzing information […]
From a Library Journal Article by Michael Kelley: The Authors Guild filed an amended complaint on Thursday, October 6, in its suit against HathiTrust, the University of Michigan, and four other universities which alleges the universities engaged “in one of the largest copyright infringements in history.” A number of additional authors and authors groups have […]
Europeana trials new software in Remix launch
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Maps, News, Patrons and Users
|From the Europeana Blog: Europeana, the digital library, museum and archive, has opened a new interactive video space, Europeana Remix, which enriches a short film on a First World War friendship using the latest HTML5 and Popcorn.js technology Europeana Remix plays the video in HTML5, and uses the Popcorn.js framework to let users call up resources […]