MORE 'OPEN-ACCESS' POSTS
That’s the word in a recent post on the LibraryThing Blog. Big Kudos to LT! From the Blog Post: It took a while to process, but we’ve finally completed adding all 12.3 million MARC records (3.1GB of bibliographic goodness!) to LibraryThing. They’ve gone into OverCat, our giant index of library records from around the world—now […]
Title Lasting Impact: Sustainability of Disciplinary Repositories Author Ricky Erway OCLC Research Summary Lasting Impact: Sustainability of Disciplinary Repositories offers a quick environmental scan of the repository landscape and then focuses on disciplinary repositories—those subject-based, often researcher-initiated loci for research information. Seven of these repositories are profiled, with a focus on their varied business models. […]
From a Versita Announcement: Academic publisher Versita [recently] announced the launch of a new program of Open Access journals. 100 Emerging Science Journals are being launched in 2012. The program’s focus is on young and rapidly developing fields of science, which have not yet been covered by a designated journal. The emerging topics have been […]
Search/Find Open Access Scholarly Articles, Reports Using New iOS Apps from CORE Project
Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports
|The CORE (COnnecting REpositories) Project comes from the Knowledge Management Institute at The Open University in the UK. Here’s a quick intro to the project before we get to the latest news from the project. CORE aims to facilitate free access to scholarly publications distributed across many systems. As of today, CORE gives you access […]
From the Wikimedia Blog Post: The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, has donated more than 19,000 freely-licensed images of artworks to Wikimedia Commons. The Walters’ collection includes ancient art, medieval art and manuscripts, decorative objects, Asian art and Old Master and 19th-century paintings. The images and their associated information will join our collection of […]
Video Presentation: Laura Dawson on “Integrating Metadata into the Publishing Process”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Open Access, Profiles, Publishing, Resources
|Two months ago we shared this interview with metadata expert and Content Chief at Firebrand Technologies Laura Dawson. The interview took place right before her presentation at the BookNet Canada Technology Conference. Now, a video of Laura’s presentation is available (free) online. Librarians will benefit by understanding how publishers view, use, and implement metadata. Plus, as […]
New Issue Alert: Journal of Digital Information (Vol. 13 No. 1)
Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, New Issue, Open Access, Preservation
|Direct to Table of Contents/Links to Full Text Articles This issue of The Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) is devoted to papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Open Repositories that took place in Austin, Texas during June, 2011. Tom Cramer from Stanford served as editor for this special issue. Papers in This Issue […]
EBSCO Discovery Service Adds the Complete Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset Released Last Week
Data Files, EBSCO, Libraries, Maps, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Resources
|The Harvard Library dataset was released on April 24th. Here’s our post and links to resources. Now, today’s news from EBSCO: Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset contains 12 million open-access catalog records from Harvard’s 73 libraries. The metadata in the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset has been created, acquired and modified over decades and includes bibliographic information […]
Title Research Data & Institutions: Roles & Responsibilities? Presenter Dr Liz Lyon, Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK Presented At Opening science through e-infrastructures Horizon 2020 Consultation event: Open Infrastructures for Open Science Date Rome, April 2012 Direct to Slides (10 pages; PDF) Note: Slides seven and eight list […]
The New York City Department of Records Launches Database Containing More than 870,000 Digitized Items
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Maps, Open Access, Resources
|From the AP: The city Department of Records officially announced the debut of the photo database Tuesday. A previously unpublicized link to the images has been live for about two weeks. Culled from the Municipal Archives collection of more than 2.2 million images going back to the mid-1800s, the photographs feature all manner of city […]