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Microsoft Academic Search: A Major Update and Several New Features Now Available
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, News, Patrons and Users
|We will have more about this release when the holiday weekend is over but until then we wanted to let you know that the Microsoft Academic Search database has just undergone a major update that’s now live. As we said in in March and we will say again today, look out Google Scholar. It will […]
From Art Daily (News Release): The Art Institute of Chicago announced that the museum has been awarded $400,000 by the Getty Foundation for the implementation of an online catalogue of paintings and drawings by the artists Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The grant supports further work on the prototype developed by the Art Institute of […]
New Research Paper: "How Much of the Web is Archived?"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Preservation, Resources
|“How Much of the Web is Archived?” (3 pages; PDF) by Scott G. Ainsworth, Ahmed Alsum, Hany SalahEldeen, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson Presented at JCDL 2011 Earlier This Month From a Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group (Old Dominion University) Blog Post: There are many questions to ask about web archiving […]
The Dublin Core 2011 Conference is Scheduled to Take Place in The Hague, September 22-23. From the Dublin Core Web Site: The organizing committee of DC-2011 has published the preliminary program of the event. On Wednesday 21 September there will be a full day of Tutorials alongside a special session on Vocabulary Management and Alignment. […]
"Three Biomedical Funders to Launch Open Access Journal"
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Publishing
|Update: Here’s the Official News Release First issue expected one year from now (Summer 2012). From ScienceInsider: Three heavyweight, nongovernmental funders of science announced today that they are launching a free online biology journal aimed at publishing the very best papers within a few weeks of submission. But few confirmed details are available about the […]
Combining Lexicon-based and Learning-based Methods for Twitter Sentiment Analysis With the booming of microblogs on the Web, people have begun to express their opinions on a wide variety of topics on Twitter and other similar services. Sentiment analysis on entities (e.g., products, organizations, people, etc.) in tweets (posts on Twitter) thus becomes a rapid and […]
Article: "Open Access Comes of Age"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Journal Articles, Open Access, Publishing
|From a Nature Article by John Whitfield: The trends “show the success of open access”, says Peter Suber, director of the Open Access project at the non-profit lobby group Public Knowledge in Washington DC. So far, he adds, the open-access movement has not imperilled commercial publishers. “The predictions of harm are being proven to be […]
California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) Announcens Plans to Add California Weekly Newspapers
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|From the University of California Riverside News Room: California’s weekly newspapers will be preserved in a searchable archive as UC Riverside expands its massive California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) to include the community chronicles of political, business and social history. Born Digital, a project of UCR’s Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, launched in the […]
From a ProQuest News Release: Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, and Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products, today announced their intention that the full-text of SciVerse ScienceDirect content will be indexed within the Summon web-scale discovery service. Researchers will be able to search the full text of […]
Carl Malamud: "The Future of Law Libraries: Twelve Tables or 7-11?"
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|The full text paper linked below was presented by Carl Malamud earlier today at the Harvard U. Future of Law Libraries: The Future is Now? event. Title: “The Future of Law Libraries: Twelve Tables or 7-11?” (9 pages; PDF) By: Carl Malamud, Public.Resource.Org As we examine the future of the law—and of law libraries—I put […]