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Webcast Now Available: "FDsys Helps GPO Provide Access to Federal Digital Publications"
| Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Preservation, Publishing
From a National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program/Library of Congress Announcement: “It’s like an all-you-can eat buffet, but all the options are healthy for you,” said Kate Zwaard, the Government Printing Office’s Lead Program Planner for Digital Preservation, in a visit to the Library of Congress on November 16, 2010. Zwaard was talking about […]
"Rare Historical Resources Now Online From West Texas Digital Archives"
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, Open Access, Resources
From a DuraSpace Blog Post: The West Texas Digital Archives, an online digital repository of significant historical materials belonging to the members of the Abilene Library Consortium (ALC), is now available online at http://wtda.alc.org/. This virtual collection of more than 44,000 preserves and provides access to valuable historical resources previously unavailable to the general public. […]
Slides, Notes, and Tweets From Day One of the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Reports, Resources
The 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference began on Thursday at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. You can find the complete conference schedule here. + Tweets from the conference are using the hashtag #pda2011. + Session Notes by Diana Wakimoto (via The Waki Librarian) Hat Tips & Thanks: Bill Lefurgy and Scott Rosenberg More reports, […]
From a Springer Science+Business Media Announcement: Chinese Science Bulletin, Science China Life Sciences and Photonic Sensors will be published as open access journals and added to the SpringerOpen portfolio. All three journals are part of Springer’s Chinese Library of Science (CLoS), a collection comprising more than 90 journals, with all their content available online at […]
From a FDLP (Federal Depostitory Library News) Article: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Library of Congress (LOC) recently received approval from the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP) to proceed on two collaborative efforts. One project involves the digitization of some of our nation’s most important legal and legislative documents and the other […]
"Scholars Favor Open-Access Journals, but Some Say Quality and Fees Are Concerns"
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: A new survey of nearly 40,000 scholars across the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences shows that almost 90 percent of them believe open-access journals are good for the research community and the individual researcher. But charges for publishing and the perception that open-access journals are of lower quality […]
