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Ancestry.com to Acquire Archives.com For $100 Million in Cash
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Resources
From the Ancestry.com Blog: You may already know of Archives.com – a fast-growing family history site that has clearly attracted new users to family history with a product that is easy to use and one that has proven to be a great way for people to get started with family history. Over the past two […]
The New York City Department of Records Launches Database Containing More than 870,000 Digitized Items
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Maps, Open Access, Resources
From the AP: The city Department of Records officially announced the debut of the photo database Tuesday. A previously unpublicized link to the images has been live for about two weeks. Culled from the Municipal Archives collection of more than 2.2 million images going back to the mid-1800s, the photographs feature all manner of city […]
Serial Solutions Will Make Europeana and European Library Material Discoveable via Summon Discovery Service
| Libraries, National Libraries, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Resources
From the Serial Solutions Web Site: In cooperation with the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL), the Summon Web-scale Discovery service from Serials Solutions will make the vast collections of The European Library and Europeana discoverable in the Summon unified index. Summon users will be able to search across hundreds of millions of records from […]
From The World Bank Announcement/Summary: World Development Indicators 2012 is now available in print, online, and on mobile devices. The 16th edition of World Development Indicators publication and database update contains updated data through 2010 and 2011 for many indicators. This update contains: more recent data on poverty at international poverty lines for more countries, […]
The list of products, services being eliminated include 1. Google Related Search Add-On What’s notable here is that Google didn’t even give this product a year to make it. It launched last August. 2. Google One Pass This was the program Google developed for publishers. Lots of talk but it only last 14 months. Here’s […]
From an Introductory Blog Post: We are excited to announce the launch of our brand new online picture library containing digital images of paintings, photographs, drawings and prints held in our collections. Browse our special themed galleries or dive straight into the advanced search and explore by subject, date and more! [Clip] Pictures have been […]
National Gallery of Denmark Launches Database of Downloadable Art Images (CC Licensed)
| News, Open Access, Resources
A month ago we posted about the National Gallery of Art in D.C. making all of the images in their web-based database open access. Today, news that the National Gallery of Denmark has released a database of 159 art works licensed using CC BY 3.0. From the Announcement: As a pilot, 159 highlights from our […]
Let’s CC: An Impressive Search Tool for Creative Commons Licensed Material Releases Open Source Code
Our friend and a frequent infoDOCKET contributor, Matt Weaver has let us know that Creative Commons Korea (CC Korea) has released the source code for their Let’s CC Creative Commons search engine as open source under GPLv3. If you’re not familiar with Let’s CC, it allows users to search/find only CC licensed material. We think […]
Title: Edited Volumes, Monographs, and Book Chapters in the Book Citation Index (BCI) and Science Citation Index (SCI, SoSCI, A&HCI) Source via arXiv Authors Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam Ulrike Felt Department of Social Studies of Science, University of Vienna Abstract In 2011, Thomson-Reuters introduced the Book Citation Index […]
Some Advanced Search options were added to HathiTrust Full Text Search in February. From the the MLibrary (University of Michigan) Blog for Library Technology. Advanced search allows users to combine a full-text search with searches within specific metadata fields such as Title, Author, or Subject. Example searches can be seen in the blog post. Today, […]
