MORE POSTS FROM FEBRUARY 2014
Michigan: Ann Arbor District Library Partners with Local Music Label to Offer 250+ DRM-Free Downloads and Streams
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|Cool! Yet another excellent example of a public library helping to promote awareness, discovery, and access to locally created content from a locally a owned business. From MLive.com: The Ann Arbor District Library has partnered with local music label Ghostly International to offer free downloads and streaming of more than 150 Ghostly albums, and more […]
From the PLOS Blog: Access to research results, immediately without restriction, has always been at the heart of PLOS’ mission and the wider Open Access movement. However, without similar access to the data underlying the findings, the article can be of limited use. For this reason, PLOS has always required that authors make their data […]
California Digital Library’s eScholarship Collection Now Searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service
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|eScholarship is the open access publishing platform and searchable/browsable institutional repository used by University of California schools. It’s a service of the California Digital Library. Here are some recently added items to the eScholarship database. The keyword search box and link to advanced interface is located in the upper-right corner of the page. Today, EBSCO announced […]
Free Access to U.S. Government Ebooks: GPO Expands Ebook Program For Libraries And Public
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|From the U.S. Government Printing Office: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is expanding the agency’s eBook program through its Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) to increase public access to information from the Federal Government. The public now has free access to eBook titles using GPO’s Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). Users can search […]
New from Nielsen. Smartphones are beginning to transform how we engage in our everyday lives. Only a few years ago, they were still the minority of mobile phones around the globe, but already they’re beginning to transform how we engage in our everyday lives. Today, they have a much more dominant presence. Not only is […]
Scholarly Publishing: Springer and IEEE Withdraw 120 Computer-Generated Conference Papers From Databases
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|From a Nature Article by Richard Van Noorden The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer-generated nonsense. Over the past two years, computer scientist Cyril Labbé of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, has catalogued computer-generated papers that […]
From the U.S. Census Bureau: The U.S. Census Bureau updated its application programming interface today with monthly and quarterly economic indicators. The API allows more access and easier customization of data products. [Clip] The Census Bureau’s economic indicator surveys provide monthly and quarterly statistics that are timely, reliable and offer comprehensive measures of the U.S. […]
A new article from The Columbus Dispatch, “Reserving library materials online grows in reader popularity” includes a discussion and video about the popular drive-up window at the Westerville Public Library. From the Article: Checking out library books has become as easy as a few taps on a phone — an increasingly popular way to “visit” […]
Acquisitions: Collection of Rare Titanic-Related Documents Donated to the Penn Libraries
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|From the University of Pennsylvania Libraries: More than 100 years after the sinking of the Titanic, the Penn Libraries is honored to acquire the John B. Thayer Memorial Collection of the Sinking of the Titanic, an extensive archive based upon the personal experience of John B. Thayer III (known as Jack), a Penn alumnus who went […]
There are many devices/apps to use when reading and EPUB formatted ebook or document. Which one is the best? That’s of course up to your specific needs including cost, availability, size, and design but one place to visit for some guidance is this list with results of testing done by EPUBTest.org, a service of the Book […]