MORE POSTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2012
Oxford University Press and Two Research Library Organizations Announce eBook Deal
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Publishing
|From Andrew Albanese at Publisher’s Weekly: Oxford University Press (OUP) has struck a deal with the Manhattan Research Library Initiative (MaRLI) and the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) that will deliver monograph content via its University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) e-book program as well as a “shared collection” of print copies of all 2012 published […]
Project MUSE and Portico Partner to Preserve UPCC eBooks
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Preservation
|From Project MUSE: Portico and Project MUSE are pleased to announce that they are partnering to secure the long-term preservation of ebooks published online in MUSE through the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC). Working together, Project MUSE and Portico will ensure that the ebook offerings of the UPCC – 73 presses and more than 15,000 […]
New from the National Center for Educational Statistics. Between 2009-10 and 2011-12, the average tuition and required fees at 4-year public institutions (after adjusting for inflation) increased more for in-state students (9 percent increase) than for out-of-state students (6 percent increase). During that same time period, 4-year nonprofit institutions increased overall by 4 percent. However, […]
Here’s the slide deck from a recent presentation by OCLC Researcher, Lynn Silipigni Connaway. The presentation “Using Virtual Reference Services to Embed the Library in the Academic Workflow” was given at the XVII Seminário Nacional de Bibliotecas Universitária in Gramado, Brazil on September 19th. This presentation is based on the IMLS-funded research activity, Seeking Synchronicity, […]
The full-text ebook (365 pages) is free. According to an AppAdvice blog post the book is available as a PDF or as an ebook via the iBookstore. Here’s everything you need to know about iPhone, in a handy eBook format. Get to know iPhone and discover all the amazing things it can do, and how […]
From San Leandro Patch: San Leandro’s public libraries became the fastest Internet provider of any public library system in California on Monday, when city officials plugged their network into the Lit San Leandro fiber optic loop. Lit San Leandro is an 11-mile circle of underground fiber optic cables that give this Bay Area community one of the […]
From a LIANZA News Release: The President of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Heather Lamond told delegates at the annual LIANZA conference that free internet access in libraries should be a basic human right. “With so much of our government information and access to services only available online, how is […]
From Working@Yale: At approximately 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday, May 29, the staff members at Yale’s Library Shelving Facility (LSF) accessioned (i.e, recorded the addition of) the one-millionth item to be transferred to the facility at 147 Leeder Hill Drive in Hamden in fiscal year 2012. It was a book entitled “The Wisdom of the Mythtellers” by […]
From Nature: The entire field of particle physics is set to switch to open-access publishing, a milestone in the push to make research results freely available to readers. [Clip] After six years of negotiation, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) is now close to ensuring that nearly all particle-physics articles […]
From a JSpace News Post: Now history buffs and Israel enthusiasts alike will be able to browse hundreds of photos in a joint project from the Bitmuna Lab, the Haifa University Land of Israel Studies Department, and the Haifa University Library. The photos, largely from personal family collections, take the viewer on a visual adventure […]