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The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) Gains Co-Sponsors, Hearing Scheduled For Next Week
Associations and Organizations, Awards, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Communications
|Live Today Hearing Information (via House.gov) Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Live Web Stream Be Available Hearing Begins at 9:30 A.M Direct to Live Video Stream or Live Video Stream #2 Opening Statements S&O Subcommittee Chairman Paul Broun (R-GA) Witnesses Mr. H. Frederick Dylla, Executive Director and Chief Executive […]
A New Site From the California Digital Library Explores the "Landscape of Digital Data"
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Publishing
|Direct to Data Pub Blog and Feed From a CDL Blog Post by Patricia Cruse: Data management plans, data publication, and calls for open data are raising the visibility of digital data as a medium to be addressed by a wide community of researchers, libraries, museums and data centers. As a way to encourage a […]
Australia: New South Wales Government to Open Source Digital Archives Software
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, News, Open Access, Preservation
|From iTnews.com.au: NSW State Records has promised to open source any digital preservation software it writes for an archive of “born-digital” records that will sit in a new Western Sydney data centre. The digital archives project is the State Government’s first attempt to permanently and centrally store a portion of digital files that are beyond […]
National Archives (UK): ARCHON Directory of Archives Released as Linked Data
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access
|via a National Archives Tweet: From the Dataset Hosted on the Kasabi Web Site: There are over 2,000 archive holding institutions in the UK, which make their collections publicly available. The ARCHON Directory which is hosted by The National Archives provides contact details for record offices, libraries and other record collecting institutions throughout the United […]
From a National Gallery of Art (NGA) Announcement: The National Gallery of Art announces the launch today of NGA Images, a new online resource that revolutionizes the way the public may interact with its world-class collection at http://images.nga.gov. This repository of digital images documenting the National Gallery of Art collections allows users to search, browse, […]
The first-ever Open Access Meeting took place earlier this week in Kansas City, Mo. 250 people attended. From a Meeting Summary: Keynote speaker, John Wilbanks, Fellow of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, kicked off the meeting off with a high-energy presentation constructed in triads: he highlighted three stories, three “uncomfortable truths” and three eventual scenarios […]
Europe’s eBooks on Demand Service Now Available From 30 Libraries
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, National Libraries, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From an eBooks on Demand Announcement: The eBooks on Demand (EOD) service, which enables to order digital copies from copyright free books, is now provided by 30 libraries in Europe. The recent libraries offering the EOD eBooks are: National Library of Sweden, Library Am Guisanplatz in Switzerland, the Central Library of Slovak Academy of Sciences […]
From The Oshkosh Northwestern: The Forrest R. Polk Library at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh serves as a repository for state and federal documents, including papers on government funded research and records from legislative hearings.”One of the major battles being fought now is in the area of open access to research funded by the federal government […]
HathiTrust Posts February 2012 Activities Update
Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Reports, Resources
|The complete Feb. 2012 Activities Update is accessible here. Here are a Few Highlights: Changes to tab-delimited metadata files Staff at Michigan added 5 new fields to HathiTrust’s tab-delimited inventory files: publication date, publication location, language, bibliographic format, and an indication of whether or not a volume has been identified as a U.S. federal government […]
From Harvard Libraries: The Harvard Library will deposit approximately 200,000 public domain volumes in HathiTrust, a shared digital repository for published materials. This follows Harvard’s first deposit of approximately 53,000 volumes in HathiTrust in 2011. “The Harvard Library is committed to collaboration and easing access to its materials. Partnerships like this create significant opportunities for […]