MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2014
The always interesting online publication The Public Domain Review (an Open Knowledge Foundation Project) has released their first book, The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, 2011-2013. From the OKP Blog: “Released through the newly born spin-off project the PDR Press, the book is a selection of weird and wonderful essays from the project’s first three years, […]
This is the first digital OCLC Annual Report and is titled “Advancing Together.” It includes several videos and slide shows. If you prefer, a PDF version minus some of these features is also available. The digital report is available in six languages. Direct to Digital OCLC Annual Report FY 2014 Direct to OCLC Annual Report […]
New Open Source Assessment Tool for Understanding Risk Of Humanitarian Crises And Disasters
Data Files, Management and Leadership, News, Profiles, Reports
|Made available by the by the Joint Research Center (JRC), European Commission: From Today’s Announcement: The first global open-source risk assessment tool for humanitarian crises and disasters was launched today. INFORM (Index for Risk Management) is designed to support decisions about prevention, preparedness and response, helping humanitarian actors to align their actions in order to […]
Updated: WIPO Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Preservation
|A new post on InfoJustice (a blog and cooperative web site hosted by the American University Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property) alerts us to an updated report prepared by Ken Crews for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (29th Session) scheduled to take place in Geneva, […]
Video: Experts Share Perspectives on Web Annotation
Academic Libraries, Awards, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Publishing, School Libraries
|The topic of web annotation continues to grow in interest and importance. Here’s how the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) describes the topic: Web annotations are an attempt to recreate and extend that functionality as a new layer of interactivity and linking on top of the Web. It will allow anyone to annotate anything anywhere, […]
Now Online: Identity Management is Theme of Latest Issue of NISO’s Information Standards Quarterly
Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, New Issue, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports
|A new issue of NISO’s Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) is now available online. The guest content editor of this issue (Vol. 26 No. 2) is Andy Dale, Chief Technology Officer of Respect Network Corporation. Direct to Complete Issue (32 pages; PDF) Complete Table of Contents and Direct Links to Individual Articles Letter from the Guest […]
From the British Library Digital Scholarship Blog: Our Digital Scholarship team has recently conducted a survey aimed to collect data from BL users around awareness and adoption of digital tools and content in their research practice. A total of 1,649 participants took part in the survey helping us to have a clear insight into current […]
News Briefs (Items from JISC, Gale, EBSCO, and Others)
Data Files, EBSCO, Gale, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|1. E-Book Subscription Services: Scribd Adds 1000+ Titles From Chronicle Books 2. Research Data Management: Jisc Launches Collaborative Initiative For UK Research The initiative is named “Research Data Spring.” 3. John Leahy Named Chief Financial Officer of Cengage Learning 4. EBSCO Information Services Releases eBook Education Collection 5. India: Government Working to Build National E-Library […]
A new Science Watch “Science Byte” utilizing data from ThomsonReuters InCites (a subset of Web of Science) provides a list of the Top 5 most prolific institutions based on the each university’s percentage of the 16,205 papers published in the Library and Info Science journals indexed by TR. Topping the list is Indiana University with […]
Texas State Library and Archives Commission Releases White Paper on Discovery Services
Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|The report (dated August 2014) was made available online earlier today by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. From a Brief Introduction on the TXSLA Blog: Discussions among libraries that have recently implemented discovery services are likely to result in agreement that implementation was challenging. However, once implemented, librarians are generally happy with their […]