MORE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2016
From the National Telecommunications and Information Administration: One of the major advantages of NTIA’s surveys on computer and Internet use stems from their very large sample size—approximately 53,000 households representing more than 120,000 people. This allows us to break out results by demographics like age, race, income, and education, as well as by state of residence. […]
The full text of the British Library Publishes 2015/16 Annual Report report is available here (47 pages; PDF) and also embedded below. Previous editions are also available online. A Few Highlights From the Report: The British Library’s six purposes define everything that we do and explain the enduring ways in which the funding we receive […]
Turnitin Signs Agreement with arXiv.org Pre-Print Repository
Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Reports
|From a Company Announcement: Turnitin today announced that it has secured a new content partnership with arXiv.org, which will see Turnitin services match against the global pre-print repository. In addition to signing a Content License Agreement, arXiv have chosen to implement Turnitin’s iThenticate service, to assist them in checking the originality of papers uploaded to […]
New Program: Open Access Monographs Begin to Rollout on JSTOR Platform
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users
|From JSTOR: We are pleased to announce a new program to make Open Access monographs available on the JSTOR platform. An initial set of 63 titles is available from four outstanding publishers: University of California Press, University of Michigan Press, UCL Press, and Cornell University Press. We expect to add several hundred more Open Access […]
1. Does the University of California Open Access Policy Miss the Mark? Depends on Which Mark (via UC Office of Scholarly Communication) 2. Society of American Archivists (SAA) Submits Comments on U.S. Copyright Office’s Section 1201 Study 3. ARL/SAA Mosaic Program Fellows 2016–2018 Selected 4. American Library Association Announces Emerging Leader Participants for Class of […]
Samsung Digital Library Opens Inside National Library of Turkey
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Maps, National Libraries, News
|From Samsung Turkey: [On Tuesday,] Samsung Electronics Turkey [opened] of the Samsung Digital Library, which offers free digital access to the valuable works retained in the archive of the National Library of Turkey, as well as contemporary e-publications. This project was realized in cooperation with the National Library with a total investment of 500,000 USD. […]
From MIT Libraries: The Libraries has launched a “quicksubmit” web form to help [our emphasis] MIT authors comply with research funder public access requirements for articles. We built the form in response to the Department of Energy’s public access plan, released in 2014, which requires researchers to submit accepted manuscripts reporting on DOE-funded work to an open […]
New Issue Brief: “Finding the Public: Domain The Copyright Review Management System”
Associations and Organizations, Awards, Libraries, Management and Leadership, New Issue, News, Open Access, Publishing
|A new Ithaka S+R issue brief, Finding the Public: Domain The Copyright Review Management System, written by Melissa Levine. Lead Copyright Officer, University of Michigan and is now available online in both HTML and PDF formats. Roger Schonfeld, Director, Libraries and Scholarly Communication Program at ITHAKA S+R, writes in an introductory blog post: Open Access Week is […]
From the National Center for Education Statistics: High school status completion rates increased from 83.7 percent in 1973 to 92.0 percent in 2013 among 18- to 24-year-olds, according to a new report. In the same time period, the gap in completion rates between White youth and Black and Hispanic youth narrowed, although the gaps remain. […]
University of Michigan: Open Michigan Initiative Launches New Partnership, Website
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Lecture, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Video Recordings
|From the U. of Michigan Record: Open Michigan is relaunching as the home for all things open at the University of Michigan — freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media used for teaching, learning and research. The site includes expertise and services for open educational resources, open data, and open publications. The new Open Michigan is […]