MORE POSTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2015
1. ACLS Humanities E-Book Releases User Guide 2. New Full Text Ebook From Altmetric and Scholastica: The Evolution of Impact Indicators: From Bibliometrics to Altmetrics 3. Artstor Signs New Agreement with New York Historical Society 4. Readex Significantly Expands Early American Newspapers with Series 12, 1821-1900 5. Jennifer Chang Joins HighWire as VP Publisher Relations […]
From the ARL Public Policy Blog: The annual Fair Use Week, a celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing, will take place from February 22-26, 2016. [Clip] While fair use and fair dealing are employed on a daily basis by all users of copyrighted material, Fair Use Week is a time […]
Posted in the past day by Stanford Libraries (via YouTube). Stanford Libraries is creating a world-class venue that fuses its cartographic collections, which includes the renowned collection of David Rumsey, with innovative geospatial techniques and visualization technologies. Combining David’s world class collection with Stanford’s commitment to leveraging technology to further scholarship, the David Rumsey Map […]
The following announcements from Cengage Learning and from Follett were made in the past 24 hours. 1. Cengage Learning Acquires Learning Objects Learning Objects powers innovative, customized and adaptive online learning programs and courses to higher education institutions through its state-of-the-art learning platform and instructional design services. Additional Info About Learning Objects 2. Follett Partners […]
Article: “Open Access and Discovery Tools: How Do Primo Libraries Manage Green Open Access Collections?”
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|The following article (preprint) will be published in Exploring Discovery: The Front Door to a Library’s Licensed and Digitized Content, Ken Varnum, Editor (ALA Editions; In Press). Title Open Access and Discovery Tools: How Do Primo Libraries Manage Green Open Access Collections? Author François Renaville University of Liège (Belgium) Source via arXiv (September 2015) Abstract […]
American Numismatic Society Launches Open Access Digital Library
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access
|From Coin World: The American Numismatic Society (ANS) continues its mission of providing Open Access research tools to researchers worldwide with its newly unveiled Digital Library. The ANS Digital Library will grow to house three collections of digital material: numismatic theses/dissertations, auction catalogues, and ebooks. [Clip] Over the next few months, the ANS will begin […]
Newspaper Archives: “Financial Time Archives Open to Academic Research”
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|From the Financial Times: The Financial Times is working with the British Library to open up access to FT Digital Archive for academic research. Extracts from the archive materials were used to produce the feature about Britain’s 1975 referendum on European Community membership that was published on FT.com today. The archive consists of scanned images […]
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Awarded $4 Million Grant From Arcadia Fund For Digitization and Access Projects
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|From the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) at St. John’s University in Minnesota: Arcadia Fund has awarded a $4 million grant to the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) at Saint John’s University. This is the single-largest gift to the organization in its 50-year history. Rev. Columba Stewart, OSB, executive director of HMML, says […]
From The Next Web: Another year, another big milestone for Instagram. The platform today announced it has reached 400 million monthly active users. That’s up from 300 million users last December; that it was able to add 100 million users in less than a year is a huge testament to its popularity and continued growth, […]
Full Text Access: National Academies Press Launches New Version of “Open Book” Online E-Reading Tool
|From NAP: Back in June of 2011, we made all of our PDFs free for downloading, and it understandably got a lot of attention. But lost in the excitement was the fact that we’ve provided our reports for free since 1999 in the form of what we now call the OpenBook, which presents thousands of […]