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Yale University Library Will Provide JSTOR Access to All Alumni
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Resources
|From YaleNews: Yale’s more than 130,000 alumni worldwide now have access to a treasure trove of online resources thanks to collaboration between the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA), JSTOR and the Yale University Library. Alumni can freely use all JSTOR collections licensed by Yale. JSTOR (short for “journal storage”), a non-profit service founded in 1995, […]
From the iTunes App Store: The AIRNow iPhone application will provide an increasingly mobile public with real-time air quality information that people can use to protect their health when planning their daily activities The app will allow users to get location-specific reports on current air quality and air quality forecasts for both ozone and fine […]
Data Stewardship from a Health Sciences Library Perspective Article Begins on Page 3 of PDF. Author: Angela Lee Social Work Librarian at the Health Sciences Libraries, University of Washington and Member of the Data Services Committee at UW Libraries. Source: Synergy (September 2011) From the Article: The purpose of this article is to provide an […]
Acquisitions: EBSCO Acquires Ergonomics Abstract from Taylor & Francis
Academic Libraries, Conference Presentations, EBSCO, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Publishing
|From EBSCO Publishing: EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has acquired Ergonomics Abstracts from Taylor & Francis. The database is focused on ergonomics and human factors. Ergonomics Abstracts provides indexing for eBooks, journal articles and reference works in a variety of fields that will be of value to academic libraries and research institutes as well as ergonomists, health […]
From a Europeana Announcement: See what Europeana items your friends like or share on Facebook, check out our latest blog posts, and discover some of the most interesting content on the new Europeana portal. Based on users’ feedback we’ve been receiving since our launch in November 2008, Europeana underwent a significant makeover. The redesigned Europeana […]
NISO Launches New Initiative to Develop Standards for Digital Bookmarking and Annotation Sharing
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Patrons and Users, Resources
|From a NISO Announcement: The National Information Standards Organization voting members have approved a new work item to develop a standard syntax for how bookmarks and notes should be located in digital texts and shared with others, especially in online environments that might be continually updated or mutable. The ability to accurately refer to a […]
“Tracking the Trackers: Where Everybody Knows Your Username” is a new report by Jonathan Mayer, a Student Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford Law School. The report focuses on web information leakage (via cookies) and how it effects online privacy. You can watch Mayer’s presentation (it begins at about 1:14:00 […]
In a new Publisher’s Weekly Blog Post, Peter Brantley talks about enhanced e-books. From the Post: I think it is inevitable that over the next few years we’ll see most non-fiction works move into this form of cross-media narrative. Peter Osnos observes in The Atlantic that “What is essential to the process of producing an […]
From the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: UNODC has developed a human trafficking case law database to provide immediate, public access to officially documented instances of this crime. The database contains details on victims’ and perpetrators’ nationalities, trafficking routes, verdicts and other information related to prosecuted cases from across the world. In doing […]
eBooks: U. of Georgia: "University Library Waiting for More Data in Judgment of Students’ Digital Preferences"
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Publishing
|From The Red and Black (Ind. Student Paper): University Head of Access Services Viki Timian said there are some signs that print circulation may be down at the University. But changes have been minimal. From 2009 to 2010, checkout numbers for undergraduate leisure reading dropped by 83 books, but graduate checkout numbers rose and the […]