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Albuquerque Special Collections Library Reopens After Restoration Project
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Open Access
|From the Albuquerque Journal: The 1925 Pueblo/Spanish Revival-style building housing the Special Collections Library of the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Libraries reopened Tuesday after a $1.2 million restoration project, the city of Albuquerque said in a news release. “Reading is fundamental to a functioning society,” said Mayor Richard J. Berry, who took part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony […]
From a LIBER Blog Post: The DART-Europe E-theses Portal, hosted by UCL Library Services in association with LIBER, is a metadata aggregation that aims to provide one-stop access to Europe’s open access research-level theses. DART-Europe now gives access to over 300,000 full-text research theses from 424 Universities in 23 European countries. The 300,000th thesis to […]
OpenMetadata.org Scheduled to Launch on Wednesday
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Open Access, Resources
|The OpenMetadata.org launch will take place during the IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) Conference in Washington, DC. IASSIST 2012 will also mark the launch of OpenMetadata.org, a new web portal, supported and operated by Metadata Technology and its partner Integrated Data Management Services (IDMS), aiming to provide online access […]
University of Illinois Library: Addition of Historic Agriculture Newspaper to Ag Digital Repository
Digital Preservation, Jobs, Journal Articles, Libraries, Open Access, Resources
|From the U of I Library: A gift from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumna, M. Christine Wicklein Schwartz, through the T & C Schwartz Family Foundation, has made it possible to digitize issues of Farmer’s Weekly Review (Joliet, IL) from 1929 to 2010. This collection of historic agricultural newspapers is now accessible through Farm, […]
New Report: Publishers Association & ALPSP Release: “Detailing Potential Effect of Making Journals Free After 6 Month Embargo”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
|The Publishers Association and Association of Learned, Professional and Society Publishers [ALPSP] are both based in the UK. ‘The potential effect of making journals free after a six month embargo’, a report commissioned by The Publishers Association and the Association of Learned, Professional and Society Publishers [ALPSP], found that an across-the-board mandate might have a […]
Open Access: Major Milestone for SCOAP3: Invitation to Tender sent to Publishing Partners
Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
|From the SCOAP3 Web Site: SCOAP3 is pleased to announce that it has issued its Invitation to Tender to the leading publishers of high-quality peer-reviewed journals carrying content in the field of High-Energy Physics, who had previously agreed to the key SCOAP3 principles in a qualifying market survey This process is the culmination of one […]
Europe: “Horizon 2020: A €80 Billion Battlefield for Open Access”
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, Open Access, Profiles, Publishing
|From Science: As negotiations proceed to shape the next installment of Europe’s gargantuan research funding programs, scientists, librarians, and publishers are eagerly awaiting the answer to a critical question: How strong will the new 7-year program, called Horizon 2020, be on Open Access (OA)? [Clip] Last week, the commission’s director-general of research and innovation at […]
The PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) end of project conference took place on Monday. Presentations and videos from the conference are now online as well as this summary news release. The PEER Project, held its final event to present its results on 29 May in Brussels. More than 100 attendees from the […]
Digital Preservation: 480 New Volumes Added to LOCKSS Digital Library and Now Available to LOCKSS Alliance Members
Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing
|Along with the 480 new volumes, material from 2 new publishers and 10 new titles are now included in LOCKSS. The digital library is now home to more than 9,000 e-journal titles from 510 publishers. You can learn more here and also review a spreadsheet (XLS) with a list of titles and participating publishers. A […]
Full Text: PhD Dissertation: “Intellectual Freedom And The Politics Of Reading: Libraries As Sites Of Conservative Activism, 1990-2010”
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Open Access
|Title Intellectual Freedom And The Politics Of Reading: Libraries As Sites Of Conservative Activism, 1990-2010 Author Loretta Mary Gaffney Source Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, 2012 Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Library and Information Science. Abstract During the 1990s and […]