MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2018
Elsevier and Impactstory Announce Partnership to Make Open Access Articles Easier to Find on Scopus
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|From Elsevier: With Elsevier’s new partnership with Impactstory, a nonprofit that creates online tools to make science more open and reusable, researchers will soon be able to find open access content on Scopusmore efficiently. Meanwhile, for university research offices, the expansion of OA-identified content in Scopus will enable improved strategic analysis and benchmarking. [Clip] “The open access […]
New U.S. Publishing Data From AAP: Book Publisher Revenue Up in April 2018
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|From the Association of American Publishers: Publishers’ revenue increased by $172.8 million (+5.5%) for the first four months of 2018 (Jan – April) compared to the same period in 2017. Publisher revenue in April 2018 was up by 4.4% over April 2017. These revenues from AAP’s StatShot Monthly Report, which tracks publisher revenue comparatively each […]
From the CBC: A collection of Yukon Indigenous language books has been scanned, organized and made freely available online. There’s at least 10,000 pages of material in eight languages — Gwich’in, Han, Kaska, Northern Tutchone, Southern Tutchone, Tagish, Tlingit and Upper Tanana. The publications used to be available only on paper at the Yukon Native […]
From Asahi Shimbun: The city-run Mabi Library here will have to discard all of its 127,000 books that were damaged in the downpours and flooding that hit western Japan earlier this month. “The library is so messed up that it looks like it entered a giant washing machine,” said Hiromi Fujii, 58, director of the […]
From University of California Davis (UC Davis): Warren Winiarski, grape grower, winemaker, land preservationist and philanthropist, has committed $3.3 million to build the most comprehensive collection of wine writers’ work in the world at the library at the University of California, Davis. Dedicated to preserving the heritage of wine and its international cultural importance, Winiarski […]
Conference Paper: “Process to Product: Inclusive Libraries by Design”
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|The following paper will be presented at the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations ) WLIC 2018 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at the end of August. Title Process to Product: Inclusive Libraries by Design Author Traci Engel Lesneski MSR Source Library.IFLA.org Abstract People experience buildings differently, depending on their personal cultural, social, economic, and physical circumstances; yet […]
From the Smithsonian Libraries Blog Post: Explore one of our newest collections in our digital library containing books, catalogs and ephemera from 19th and 20th century World’s Fairs and Expositions. The majority of the items in this collection were digitized by an outside vendor as part of a special project. Pieces in this collection date […]
Just Released: Famed Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmsted’s Papers (approx. 24,000 items) Now Online
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|From the Library of Congress: Writings and personal records of the founder of American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted, known for his work on New York’s Central Park, the U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington, the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina and many other landscapes, have been digitized and are now available online from the Library […]
From Reporters Without Borders (RSF): In a report published today, entitled “Online harassment of journalists: the trolls attack”, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) voices concern about the scale of a new threat to press freedom, the mass harassment of journalists online. The perpetrators may be ordinary “haters” (individuals or communities of individuals hiding behind their screens) […]
From the National Archives (UK) Blog: The collections held at The National Archives chart the intersection of government, citizen and wider society, from state formation and sovereignty to modern diplomatic relations. They define who we are, and have been, as a nation and society, and map our interaction with the wider world. This means our […]