MORE POSTS FROM JANUARY 2013
NY Philharmonic to Release More Archive Online
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Reports
|From the AP: The New York Philharmonic will post a new batch of pages from its vast archive online in February. The orchestra will release 520,000 pages of instrumental music parts. It’s already posted over 1,300 orchestral scores online. After that, it will release concert programs, correspondence, business records and annual reports dating back to […]
Scholarly Publishing: Palgrave Macmillan Launches Open Access Option for Monographs and Palgrave Pivot Publications
Awards, Funding, Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From the Palgrave Macmillan Website and News Release: Palgrave Open offers authors and their funders the option to publish open access (OA) research across all publication formats. Palgrave Macmillan journal articles, monographs and Palgrave Pivot publications can now be made available with immediate open access upon publication. [Clip] Palgrave Open publishes OA content under the […]
Update: We’ve reached out to Europeana to let them now that the audio for all three of the videos embedded below is very poor and made viewing a challenge. Hopefully, they’ll be able to correct the problem. If we hear with an update we will update this post. New online from Europeana are three archived […]
From the Getty Research Institute: The Getty Research Institute (GRI) announced today the addition of approximately 250,000 art sale records from more than 2,000 German auction catalogs dating from 1930–1945 to its free online art historical research resources. These art sale records are part of the Getty Provenance Index® databases, which currently contain close to […]
Back in December we pointed out an event that was scheduled to take place at Virginia Commonwealth University that would look at a cloud-based library platforms. The event took place on January 9th and an archived video recording is now available online. One of the speakers will be the highly respected library tech info consultant/expert […]
Note: The app discussed below appears to be available only (at least at the moment) in the UK and New Zealand. Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day and on Friday, Penguin released an app version of The Diary of Anne Frank for Nook and iOS. The Drum has posted a preview video allowing you take a […]
Scholarly Publishing: Slides Now Available From SCOAP3 and eScholarship PLUS Updates (ALA Midwinter 2013)
Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|The ACLTS (Assn. for Library Collections and Technical Services) Communications Interest Group held a program at the ALA 2013 Midwinter Meeting yesterday in Seattle and slides from the presentations are now available online. 1. SCOAP3 Presenters: Ann Okerson (CRL) and Tom Sanville (LYRASIS) Direct to PPT Slides 2. eScholarship PLUS: Sustaining Open Access Scholarly Publishing […]
ProQuest’s “Expansion of History Vault” Opens New Perspectives on Pivotal Eras in American History & More Recent PQ News
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, School Libraries
|ProQuest Product Announcements Made at ALA Midwinter Meeting 2013 ProQuest’s Expansion of History Vault Opens New Perspectives on Pivotal Eras in American History In 2013, ProQuest will open content that has been largely inaccessible to global researchers with a significant expansion of its acclaimed History Vault, a five-year program to provide central access to the […]
EBSCO Adds More Ebooks to Academic Library Collection & Other Recent EBSCO Product Announcment
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, EBSCO, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|EBSCO Announcements Made at ALA Midwinter Meeting 2013 EBSCO Publishing Increases E-book Content for Academic Libraries eBooks on EBSCOhost continues to grow as thousands of e-books have been added to the eBook Academic Collection —increasing the number of e-books to more than 112,000. [Clip] EBook Academic Collection is offered on an annual subscription basis with […]
Digitization: Springer Launches the Springer Book Archives, 37,000 eBooks Now Available With More to Come
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, News
|From Springer: Springer now offers online access to 37,000 historic, English-language eBooks with the launch of the Springer Book Archives. The SBA will be completed by the end of this year, and when finished researchers, students and librarians will be able to access more than 170 years of science through 100,000 titles, available anywhere, at […]