MORE POSTS FROM APRIL 2015
From the Windsor Star: The Windsor Public Library’s central location unveiled a new, open-concept living room with tables, seating and a TV for people to hangout, watch the news, crack open something to read or just surf the web. The unveiling of the room kicked off with a Scrabble tourney Saturday afternoon. “This is no longer […]
Note: One thing you might have read on infoDOCKET multiple times is our admiration for Brewster Kahle and The Internet Archive. His vision and work remain vital and important. So, with that in mind here’s a video of a recent keynote address Brewster gave at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Spring Meeting in Seattle. […]
From MTVNews.com: You can find more than books at the Baltimore public library today, as all branches remain open and fully staffed in the wake of protests and riots that have rocked the city. With a state of emergency declared and schools closed citywide Tuesday morning, the Enoch Pratt Free Library has chosen to stay […]
We plan to add additional resources and documents moving forward. Global Disaster Alert and Coordination Center Alerts, Maps, Data Files, and More UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Nepal Office of the Resident Coordinator – Situation Reports Reference Maps Thematic Maps Infographics UN OHCA (Asia/Pacific) Twitter Stream Humanitarian Data Exchange Nepal Earthquake Materials Maps ESRI […]
From Freedom House: More aggressive tactics by authoritarian regimes and an upsurge in terrorist attacks contributed to a disturbing decline in global freedom in 2014, according to Freedom in the World 2015, Freedom House’s annual report on the condition of political rights and civil liberties. The report finds an overall decline in freedom for the […]
From De Gruyter: This year, more than 1,250 formerly out-of-print works from the University of Pennsylvania Press will be available again for purchase as ebooks and print-on-demand editions. “Thanks to this partnership, Penn Press is able to mark the 125th anniversary of its founding by making the span of its scholarly publishing history accessible to […]
From The Gazette (Cedar Rapids): Employees with the National Czech and Slovak Museum & Library in Cedar Rapids expected to get up to a couple feet of water during the flood of 2008. They got eight. So even though they evacuated hundreds of valuables and moved any remaining books, phonograph records, posters and maps about […]
From The Calvert Journal: Prozhito.org (Lives Lived), a database of thousands of diary entries written in Russian throughout the 20th century, went online on Friday evening. So far its content is limited to officially published diaries of writers, scientists and other prominent members of Soviet society, but the database’s creators plan to digitise thousands of diaries of ordinary citizens […]
From LC: The Library of Congress Music Division and Q2 Music, the online stream of contemporary classical music presented by New York-based public broadcaster WQXR Radio, today announced a collaboration that will make more than 20 pieces of contemporary classical music commissioned by the Library available to listeners free of charge via general rotation on […]
Science Europe Posts “New Principles on Open Access Publisher Services”
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Conference Presentations, Data Files, Open Access, Public Libraries, Publishing
|From Science Europe’s Announcement Earlier Today: At its General Assembly meeting in Vienna on 15 April, Science Europe’s members – comprising 50 major public research organisations in Europe – adopted four new common principles on Open Access Publisher Services. The Principles, which were prepared by Science Europe’s Working Group on Open Access to Scientific Publications, […]