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New Report From National Library of France: "Internet Archive: Forecast Study About Perceptions and Expectations of Potential Users"
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, National Libraries, Patrons and Users, Resources
|From an Overview Paragraph: Since 2006, the BnF (National Library of France) has been responsible for the legal deposit of internet resources. Automatic harvesting is performed 24 hours a day by the digital legal deposit service. Resources collected are available on a trial basis at the Research Library. During this experimental phase, it was important […]
From A UC Berkeley Library “Romance Collections News” Post: Thirty-two texts of popular French literature from the Bancroft Library’s collection of Bibliothèque Bleue de Troyes have recently been digitized and added to ARTFL’s Bibliothèque Bleue Online. Hosted by the University of Chicago, the openly accessible database of now 284 separate livrets (booklets) comprises a single […]
Title: How People use Twitter in Different Languages (2 pages; PDF) Authors: Wouter Weerkamp, Simon Carter, and Manos Tsagkias In: Proceedings of the ACM WebSci’11, June 14-17 2011, Koblenz, Germany (via Web Science Repository) Abstract: In this paper we describe how Twitter is used in various languages. We observe notable differences between languages regarding the use of […]
STM (Intl. Assoc. of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers) Sets Out Guiding Principles For Document Delivery
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Journal Articles, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From an STM News Release (PDF): Document delivery of individual journal articles is a supplemental tool used primarily by individuals and organizations to fill small information gaps in their STM content. It is only one of the many ways by which STM journal literature can be accessed and it can best be understood as a […]
Printable Maps: Congressional Districts (112th Congress) The National Atlas offers simple maps of each District of the 112th Congress (January 2011-January 2013). These maps of the individual districts cover half of an 8.5- by 11-inch paper when printed. Designed for easy reference, they show the Congressional District overlaid on top of State and county boundaries […]
Milestones: 10 Millionth Record Added to WorldCat By an Open Access Publisher in Croatia
Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From an OCLC Announcement: A record for a book accessible online, titled Task-oriented and Purposeful Robot-Assisted Therapy, marked the 10 millionth record added to WorldCat via the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway. The record was harvested into WorldCat by staff at InTech, an open access publisher located in Rijeka, Croatia. [Clip] The WorldCat record links to […]
Does Television Advertising Influence Online Search? This paper finds a significant association between television advertising for financial services brands and consumers’ tendency to search branded keywords (e.g. “Fidelity”) rather than generic category-related keywords (e.g. “stocks”). The effect is largest for young brands during standard business hours with an elasticity, .07, comparable to extant measurements of […]
How Much Better are the Most Prestigious Journals? The Statistics of Academic Publication Articles in high-prestige journals receive more citations and more applause than articles in less-prestigious journals, but how much more do these articles contribute to knowledge? This article uses a statistical theory of review processes to draw inferences about differences value between articles […]
Note: The following is a revised version of a paper first published in 2004. Google began Google Answers in April, 2002 and ended it in November 2006. Earnings and Ratings at Google Answers (Benjamin Edelman) I analyze all questions and answers from the inception of the Google Answers service through November 2003, and I find […]
A Logical Idea: Digital Archive Containing Newly Discovered Papers and Books of George Boole Announced
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Resources
|From Cork Student News: UCC’s [University College Cork, Ireland] Boole Library is to receive an EMC Heritage Grant to go towards the creation of a publicly available digital archive of newly discovered papers and printed books of the mathematician George Boole, after whom the library is named. The digital archives will be integrated into the […]