MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2014
New Article: “Library-as-Publisher: Capacity Building for the Library Publishing Subfield”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Interviews, Libraries, News, Publishing
|The following full text article was recently published in Vol 17, Issue 2 of The Journal of Electronic Publishing. Title Library-as-Publisher: Capacity Building for the Library Publishing Subfield Authors Katherine Skinner Educopia Institute Sarah Lippincott Library Publishing Coalition Julie Speer Associate Dean for Research and Informatics at Virginia Tech Libraries and Director of Virginia Tech’s Center […]
From OverDrive HQ in Cleveland: OverDrive announced today that OverDrive Read now supports a broad range of enhanced titles based on EPUB3. The leading browser-based eBook platform now faithfully displays children’s picture books, textbooks using complex layout, and other enhanced titles produced using EPUB3, HTML5, media overlays (synchronized audio), and other open industry standards. [Clip] […]
UPDATE: EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Clearinghouse) Comments on the Report in, “FTC Report on Data Brokers Fails to Address Consumer Privacy Concerns” From the Federal Trade Commission: In a report issued today on the data broker industry, the Federal Trade Commission finds that data brokers operate with a fundamental lack of transparency. The Commission recommends […]
Hoopla Plans to Add Ebooks to Platform Later This Year
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From Today’s Announcement: Midwest Tape today announced that eBooks will be added to its hoopla digital platform later this year. [Clip] hoopla digital’s transactional-based model allows for all eBook titles to be available all the time, with the publisher being compensated each time a title is read. “All titles are available 24 hours a day, […]
From BRW (Australia): Researchers from CSIRO’s (Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Australia) Digital Productivity and Services Flagship are working with the Black Dog Institute to use Twitter data to gather insights into the state of mental health around the world. A CSIRO application, called WeFeel, uses Amazon Web Services’ big data Kinesis technology to access […]
From The Gazette: When Library 21c, the Pikes Peak Library District’s newest facility, opens next month, patrons will see more than a repository for stacks of material. Traditional resources, including books, audio and visual media and e-books, will endure. [Clip] “This is cutting edge,” said Dee Vazquez Sabol, PPLD community engagement and outreach officer. “We […]
Two weeks ago we posted this item with some info about more material that the Library of Congress plans to add to the National Jukebox of Historic Recordings. Today, we’ve learned a bit more about a portion of what LC plans to add to the online jukebox. A new “Special Notice” from LC (via FBO.gov) says LC plans […]
Pilot Project: IOP Publishing Launches Subscription ‘Offsetting’ Arrangement With 21 UK Universities to Cut Cost of Open Access
Academic Libraries, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From The Times Higher Education Supplement: A publisher has launched a pilot with 21 UK universities to reduce their subscription costs in proportion to the amount of open access fees they pay The “offsetting” arrangement devised by the Institute of Physics’ publishing arm will allow universities that subscribe to its “hybrid” journals to publish more […]
We’ve shared several items about The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) since late last year including a November 14, 2013 post about the Library of Congress being selected as the home of the archive. The project is a collaboration between LC and the WGBH Media Library and Archives (a wonderful resource). Yesterday, a post […]
New Article: “Library Portal 2.0: The Social Research Management System”
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|The following article appears in Vol. 1 No. 1 (Spring 2014) of Current Issues in Emerging eLearning (CIEE) published by the Center for Innovation and Excellence in eLearning, and sponsored by the College of Advancing and Professional Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Title Library Portal 2.0: The Social Research Management System Author Apostolos […]