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New: “Beautiful Books” Added to Stanford Digital Repository
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|From ReMix: The Stanford Library Newsletter: Sixteen volumes selected from among the Libraries’ “beautiful books” were recently added – approximately 1,400 images in all – to the Stanford Digital Repository, where anyone can now view Renaissance artistic visions of the fall of Troy, see the universe as Galileo showed it to his contemporaries, hear Dr. […]
From a Wiley Announcement: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced revised licensing arrangements for proprietary journals published under the Wiley Open Access program. The journals will adopt the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence which allows commercial use of published articles. The Wiley Open Access portfolio also includes journals published with society partners, many of […]
New From the Cornell University ILR School. From the Repository’s “About” Page: The Title VII Class Action Consent Decree Repository is a resource which addresses the information needs of judges, lawyers, and social scientists by making available the full text as well as specific clauses of consent decrees negotiated in race and sex discrimination class […]
CrossRef Joins DataCite and STM Statement on Linkability and Citability of Research Data
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|From CrossRef: In June 2012, DataCite and the International Association of STM Publishers (STM) issued a joint statement on the Linkability and Citability of Research Data. CrossRef is pleased to join and support this statement and the best practices for data it recommends. [Clip] Specifically, CrossRef encourages publishers to use DataCite DOIs to link to […]
Reference: World Bank Releases New Portal For Data and Statistics on Gender
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|From the News Release: The portal provides country, regional and thematic dashboards, with key indicators displayed through interactive visualizations. Create your own tables, charts, and maps using the DataBank data retrieval system. Featured datasets and resources are drawn from the World Development Indicators, national statistical agencies, databases of United Nations Agencies, and surveys conducted of […]
Standards: NISO and NFAIS Issue Draft for Public Comment of Second Part of Recommended Practice on Supplemental Materials for Journal Articles
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|From an NISO/NFAIS Joint Announcement: The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the National Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) have issued a new Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part B: Technical Recommendations (NISO RP-15-201x) for public comment until September 15, 2012. Although supplemental materials are increasingly being added to journal articles, […]
Columbia University Libraries Acquires Ballantine Books Archive
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|From Columbia University Libraries: Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library is pleased to announce Betty Ballantine’s gift of a collection of books and papers relating the work of her late husband Ian and her in their long and distinguished careers in publishing. The gift includes a nearly complete run of Penguin titles in pristine […]
Digital Public Library of America Receives $1 Million Award From National Endowment for the Humanities
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|From NEH: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced a $1 million award to support the incorporation and launch of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), a groundbreaking project that seeks to digitize and bring together the contents of our nation’s libraries and archives, and make them freely available to all online. […]
From the Lincoln Journal Star: The University of Nebraska-Lincoln dean of libraries will step down this summer after 16 years to take on a new administrative assignment, the university announced this week. “I am intensely proud of the things we have accomplished together and I’m excited about the next phase of advancement for the UNL […]
Nature Publishing Group Expands Linked Data Platform to Over a Quarter Billion Triples
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|From NPG: As part of its wider commitment to open science, Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) Linked Data Platform now hosts more than 270 million Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements. It has been expanded more than ten times, in a growing number of datasets. These datasets have been created under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) waiver, […]