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Open Access: Dove Medical Press Publishes First Video Abstract
Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Publishing, Video Recordings
|From a News Release: Dove Medical Press is delighted to announce the launch of video abstracts in their 100+ open access peer reviewed medical and scientific journals. The first of these was published last week by authors Jean B Nachega, Michael J Mugavero, Michele Zeier, et al for their paper “Treatment simplification in HIV-infected adults […]
Authors: Sitaram Asur, Louis Yu, Bernardo A. Huberman (Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto and Hewlett-Packard Labs) From the Abstract: There has been a tremendous rise in the growth of online social networks all over the world in recent times. While some networks like Twitter and Facebook have been well documented, the popular Chinese microblogging social network Sina […]
A new service offering bound paper copies of material available from the wonderful Social Science Research Network web site is now available. Even with the eBook and eBook Reader frenzy going on these day, professionally bound versions of printed research reports still seem to be of value to authors and others. If not bound, all […]
From an Article by Alison Flood (via The Guardian): Until now. I come back from holiday to learn about one of the most exciting developments for ages: from Arthur C Clarke to Philip K Dick, Marion Zimmer Bradley to Robert Silverberg, Gollancz is making thousands of classic out-of-print SFF titles available as ebooks. The SF […]
Digitization: Harvard Law School Library Announces Expansion of Nuremberg Trials Project
Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Open Access, Resources, School Libraries
|From the Harvard Law School Library: The Harvard Law School Library has announced the expansion of the Nuremberg Trials Project, a digital collection of documents relating to the trials of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany by the International Military Tribunal and also the trials of other accused war criminals by the United States […]
From the Smithsonian: "Digitization Project Brings Ancient Near Eastern Inscriptions into 21st Century"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, News, Patrons and Users, Preservation
|From the Smithsonian Announcement: The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives announces a new 3-D digital resource that will enable scholars and the public to learn more about the ancient Near East through a unique group of pressed-paper molds called squeezes. This resource provides unparalleled access to the archives’ collection […]
New Issue Alert: The Code4Lib Journal (14) is Now Available Online
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Preservation, Frontiers, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, New Issue, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|Released on July 25, 2011. Issue 14 contains 11 articles/books reviews/editorials. Here are abstracts and links. All articles are full text and free. Editorial Introduction: Prioritizing the Future, Collaborating in the Present, and Archiving the Past by Timothy M. McGeary This is an exciting time for libraries and technology, and libraries have the opportunity now […]
Company Names Matching in the Large Patents Dataset This paper addresses the name matching (duplicate detection) problem in the US patent dataset. It contains more then 400K unique company names spellings. In order to solve the matching problem we choose appropriate string similarity measure and clustering approach and estimate their parameters. Finally we apply them […]
Conference Paper: "Working Without Words – Image Based Retrieval as a Model to Overcome Language Hurdles"
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, Libraries, Resources
|The paper will be presented at the World Library and Information Congress : 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly in San Juan on August 14, 2011. Author: Jan Simane (Head Librarian, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Florence, Italy) Abstract: In art history images are the primary medium of interest. In a scientific context, multi media […]
Google Scholar "Citations" Launches & A Look at What Microsoft Is Up To With Academic Search
Data Files, Journal Articles, News, Patrons and Users, Profiles
|It’s good to see Google Scholar introducing a new service. We’ve been wondering where they’ve been as Microsoft continues to develop the robust and very useful Microsoft Academic Search* that has now been around (and expanding) for more than 18 months. The most recent news–until now–out of the Google Scholar camp about a new feature […]