MORE 'OPEN-ACCESS' POSTS
From The Brown Daily Herald: The University has publicly condemned a bill that would require publishers to approve open access to government-funded research. [Clip] The University condemned the legislation for “a whole variety of reasons,” said Provost Mark Schlissel P’15. He cited the limitations it could impose on community access to student and faculty research […]
Montana: "New State Librarian Leads Digitization"
Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Reports
|From the Helena Independent Record: Not that long ago, the Montana State Library, in charge of making state documents available to the public, circulated just a few hundred publications outside its walls each year. Now, in just the past three months, the library has circulated some 18,000 digital documents, and what’s available is vast: state […]
California Digital Library Joins Public Knowledge Project as Major Development Partner in Open Access Publishing
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Open Access, Publishing
|From a CDL Announcement: As the scholarly publishing landscape heats up with more talk of boycotts and Open Access mandates, research libraries increasingly find themselves at a crossroads between publishers and faculty — and eagerly working to provide new solutions to entrenched problems. The California Digital Library’s (CDL) latest foray into this space, on behalf […]
New Article: "Academic E-Books: Innovation and Transition" by Peter Brantley
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
|A new article by Peter Brantley from the Publisher’s Weekly web site. From the Article: There is a growing crisis in the academic monograph marketplace. College and university libraries are experiencing budget cuts; there are too many presses publishing too many titles; there’s growing pressure to figure out open access (OA) solutions, particularly in the […]
From the F1000 Web Site: Faculty of 1000 (F1000) today announces F1000 Research, a new fully Open Access publishing program across biology and medicine that will launch later this year. It is intended to address the major issues afflicting scientific publishing today: timely dissemination of research, peer review, and sharing of data. Diverging from traditional […]
New Issue Alert: The February 2012 Issue of C&RL News is Now Online
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, New Issue, News, Open Access
|Direct to Complete Table of Contents and Full Text Article February 2012, (73.2) Articles Include (Not a Complete List): The approachable reference desk: How Norwich University Kreitzbert Library’s desk got a new look by Deborah Ahlers and Heidi Steiner MetaWHAT?: Training access services staff to partner in digital projects metadata creation by Kristy L. Dixon […]
Now Available: Results of the EC Public Consultation on Scientific Information in the Digital Age
Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing
|From a Summary Posted on the LIBER Web Site: The public consultation on scientific information in the digital age, which was recently undertaken by the European Commission, spurred great interest among a variety of stakeholders, with 1140 responses received from 42 countries. Respondents identified a strong need for better access to scientific publications and scientific […]
From Thomson Reuters: The WestlawNext iPad app now features enhanced folder sharing capabilities. Users can save their research results, including notes and KeyCite® warning flags, in folders that can be instantly shared with others. For instance, an attorney or researcher in an office can share research with an attorney in a court setting or collaborate […]
A DSpace Powered Digital Library Opens in India With Four More Launching Soon
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
|From the The Times of India: Society was in need of youths who were ready to take the reins of the nation and transform themselves into global leaders, D Purandeswari, minister of state for human resources and development, said on Thursday. She was inaugurating the Dspace digital library at St Albert’s College, Ernakulam. [Clip] The […]
From a News Release: Washington University Libraries has joined HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries to preserve and provide access to the published record in a digital form, announced Shirley K. Baker, Washington University’s vice chancellor for scholarly resources and dean of University Libraries. WUSTL, which joined HathiTrust Jan. 1, 2012, now […]