MORE POSTS FROM FEBRUARY 2012
Elsevier Withdraws Support For the Research Works Act But Continues to Oppose Government Mandates
Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Elsevier, Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Publishing
|UPDATE: Full Text of Letter From Elsevier to Mathematics Community Released today. It includes the following paragraph: To make clear that we are committed to wider access, we have made the archives of 14 core mathematics journals open, from four years after publication, back to 1995, the year when we started publishing digitally. All current […]
Direct from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. 84th Academy Awards Fact Sheet (4 pages; PDF) Examples of What You’ll Find: Number of countries submitting foreign language films 63 Number of voting members 5,783 Number of Oscar statuettes created for 84th Academy Awards 50 Number of Oscar statuettes given out at the 83rd […]
From the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat: The storage component is three stories tall. There are no external windows. It’s fire and earthquake safe, with human access limited to one set of locked doors. It’s possibly the safest place on the Sonoma State University campus, and it’s called “The Vault.” SSU’s Automated Storage and Retrieval System is the most advanced […]
From the AP: Locked inside U.N. headquarters is a huge but largely unknown archive documenting 10,000 cases against accused World War II criminals, from Belgian charges against Adolf Hitler to the trial of a Japanese commander for inciting rape. Leading British and American researchers are campaigning to make the files _ hundreds of thousands of […]
Title Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality (150 pages; PDF) Authors Urs Gasser Harvard University – Berkman Center for Internet & Society; University of St. Gallen Sandra Cortesi Harvard University – Berkman Center for Internet & Society Momin Malik Harvard University – Berkman Center for Internet & Society Ashley Lee Harvard University […]
From an Intro Post by Dr. Jeff Masters’, Weather Underground’s Co-Founder: The Record Extremes page will give you the option to see U.S. and international records on a map and table. You can select any combination of record types at once, which, combined with the map, provides a interesting visual way to investigate record-setting events. […]
Informational Brief: Impact of School Libraries on Student Achievement
Academic Libraries, Libraries, Reports, Resources, School Libraries
|From a Report Summary via METRO: The New York Comprehensive Center (NYCC)/RMC Research Corporation, in consultation with the New York State Education Department, the New York State Library and the New York Library Association has produced a new publication entitled, Informational Brief: Impact of School Libraries on Student Achievement. This comprehensive brief provides a current and rigorous […]
More Open Data Online: Cooper-Hewitt Releases Dataset to Broaden Access to Online Collection
Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Patrons and Users, Resources
|From the Smithsonian Institution: The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum today announced the release of its collection dataset, which will broaden access and allow for increased analysis of the museum’s object holdings. Basic museum data for more than 60 percent of the collection (more than 120,000 records) is now available as a single downloadable file […]
From CNET: A new effort under way at the world’s largest museum and research institution could eventually mean more of its 137 million objects will be publicly available, even if just via 3D digital models. [Clip] CNET has learned that the Smithsonian has a new initiative to create a series of 3D-printed models, exhibits, and […]
From the Announcement: Archives.com [has launched] the Patriots of Color Database. Archives.com is bringing this collection online for the first time, compiling years of research facilitated by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. These records unveil new and invaluable information about some of the men and women […]