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From the NY Times Article, “In a Flood Tide of Digital Data, an Ark Full of Books”: Forty-foot shipping containers stacked two by two are stuffed with the most enduring, as well as some of the most forgettable, books of the era. Every week, 20,000 new volumes arrive, many of them donations from libraries and […]
A New Service for Open Access Monographs: the Directory of Open Access Books
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From a OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) News Release: OAPEN is pleased to announce a new service for Open Access monographs: the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). DOAB will provide a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts […]
A MASSIVE Collection of Historical Maps Launches Online: 60K Maps Available Today, Collection Will Double in Size By End of 2012
Libraries, Maps, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries
|via JISC: The JISC-funded Old Maps Online, described by its creators as like Google for old maps, will act as a central repository to a vast collection of maps held by institutions across the globe. It is the first time that access to such an extensive collection has been made available online. Paola Marchionni, programme […]
Medical History: NLM Attains Millionth Page Milestone for the Medical Heritage Library
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|From the National Library of Medicine: The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, reached a benchmark at the conclusion of NLM’s 175th anniversary year, 2011, when it scanned its one millionth page for the Medical Heritage Library Project. NLM is contributing Medicine in […]
Wiley-Blackwell Adds 44 Titles to Journal Publishing Program in 2012, 8 New Titles Will Be Open Access
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
|From Wiley-Blackwell: In 2012 Wiley-Blackwell will begin publishing 44 titles new to its journal program, including 16 new launches and 40 journals published in collaboration with societies or other organizations. Brand new titles publishing on Wiley Online Library over the course of 2012 include Advanced Healthcare Materials, PsyCH Journal (published with the Institute of Psychology, […]
New Online Research Resource: Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium (TRAC) Released By The Beacham Group
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|via E-Mail: The Beacham Group, LLC, (formerly Beacham Publishing, Inc.) has devoted eight years to exhaustive exploration of the topic and created Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium (TRAC) – one of the world’s most comprehensive research centers for faculty, scholars, students, government and defense professionals, as well as the general public. Features TRAC’s profiles of […]
Elsevier Withdraws Support For the Research Works Act But Continues to Oppose Government Mandates
Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Elsevier, Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Publishing
|UPDATE: Full Text of Letter From Elsevier to Mathematics Community Released today. It includes the following paragraph: To make clear that we are committed to wider access, we have made the archives of 14 core mathematics journals open, from four years after publication, back to 1995, the year when we started publishing digitally. All current […]
Now Available from OCLC Research: Gary Marchionini, Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spoke at OCLC on 21 February 2012. In this presentation, Dean Marchionini talks about the blurring of boundaries between personal and public digital libraries as […]
OCLC Announces New Agreements With Publishers, Adds More Content and Collections to WorldCat Local
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|via OCLC OCLC has signed new agreements with leading publishers around the world and has added important new content and collections to WorldCat Local, the OCLC discovery and delivery service that offers users integrated access to more than 922 million items. WorldCat Local offers access to books, journals and databases from a variety of publishers […]
From the American Heart Association: The American Heart Association has launched the online-only open-access Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease (JAHA)— packed with free peer-reviewed research on heart disease and stroke. “We envision JAHA as a forum for high quality original articles that cover the full range of cardiovascular science, including […]