MORE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2015
From the University of California: Today [October 26, 2015] the University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide. Building on UC’s previously-adopted Academic Senate open access (OA) policies, this new […]
From NBC 7 (San Diego): The Maker Lab at San Diego Central Library, filled with 3D printers available for public use, will soon expand due to its overwhelming popularity. [Clip] The printers, located on the eighth floor, are so popular…that the library plans to move the lab in November to the third floor. There, visitors […]
The new features launched late last week. A text rundown of what’s new/changed can be found on the Historypin Blog. From the Blog Post: Our non-profit team at Historypin has been supporting community history efforts around the world for over 5 years. In that time, over 2,500 cultural heritage organizations and 65,000 individuals have joined […]
The Iowa Review Launches Free Full Text Digital Archive & “Walt Whitman Quarterly Review Goes Open Access”
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|Two items! 1. From The Iowa Review Blog: [The new Iowa Review archive] contains the full text of virtually all the writing published in The Iowa Review from its founding in 1970 through 2011. The archive comprises 130 issues of the magazine and 5,752 individual poems, essays, and stories, searchable by volume, author name, and […]
Note: Last week we shared news about the Internet Archive receiving a grant to begin planning for the next-gen Wayback Machine. This time, info and links to something cool, useful, and now available from the IA in an early pilot. Via the IA Blog: Imagine you could zoom seamlessly into to this rare Klimt painting to […]
From Portico: Participants in Portico’s E-Journal Preservation Service now have access to Science Foundation in China published by Institute of Physics Publishing. The content for the volumes and issues listed below is no longer available through any online platform; therefore, it has “triggered” and is available to Portico participants via the Portico archive. Participating institutions […]
The Library of Congress recently added some additional info about the storage facility to a page found in the “Managing the Collections” portion of the site. Direct to Fort Meade Update From the Page: In 1994, a 100-acre site located in the U.S. Army Base at Fort Meade, MD was transferred to the U.S. Congress […]
Now Online: Recording of SSP’s “Who’s Wagging the Dog? The Role of Funder Mandates in Defining the Needs of End Users” Webinar
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|The webinar took place October 13, 2015 and a recording was made available on YouTube in the past couple of hours. From the SSP Website/Webinar Preview Page: Attendees can expect a robust discussion of changes in funder attitudes about what constitutes legitimate scholarly output. Scholarly communication has expanded to include data sets, computer code and […]
From NOAA: This interactive mapping interface displays data for each of the 344 climate divisions in the U.S. Climate Divisional Database. View maps of monthly or yearly values, ranks, or anomalies for temperature, precipitation, heating and cooling degree days, and drought indices. Direct to FAQ and Additional Map Details Direct to Interactive Climate Map Direct […]
From Springer Nature: Springer Nature announces the launch of an interactive Related Content service on the SpringerLink platform. The service will make it faster and easier for researchers to discover relevant scientific content and is powered by UNSILO, a Semantic Discovery Engine that captures trending ideas and novel scientific concepts as they emerge. The new […]