MORE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2015
From CoinWeek The American Numismatic Society (ANS) is pleased to announce, in collaboration with Dr. Jere Bacharach, Department of History at the University of Washington, and Dr. Sherif Anwar, College of Archaeology, Cairo University, the digital publication of the non-hoard numismatic collection of the Egyptian National Library. The catalog consists of more than 6,500 objects, […]
From CNI and JISC: Over the last decade or so, travellers moving towards an open future for scholarly communications have picked up their pace, spurred on by shifts in public perceptions of openness and by evolving scholarly views and practices. National and international initiatives from governments and funders have provided fresh incentives so that, in […]
Here’s a new and very interesting conference paper by researchers in Brazil and South Korea. It will be presented at the ACM Conference on Online Social Networks 2015 taking place in about one week at Stanford University. Title Dawn of the Selfie Era: The Whos, Wheres, and Hows of Selfies on Instagram Authors Flávio Souza […]
From Nevada Public Radio: The last few years there’s been a literary tug-of-war. On one side is the traditional book made out of paper. On the other side – the e-reader – a technology that exploded about eight years ago when Amazon’s Kindle arrived on the landscape. At the time, many people wondered if the […]
Senate of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Approves Open Access Policy to Research Articles
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|From the University of Illinois Library: On October 19, 2015, the Senate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus approved a University Policy on Open Access to Research Articles. This policy grants the University a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise all rights under copyright to the scholarly articles produced by faculty members. In […]
From Brill: During International Open Access Week, Brill and Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) [located in the Netherlands] launched the Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, a new, international, peer-reviewed, Open Access data journal. The Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences (RDJ) contains short publications (data papers) in […]
National Library of Sweden Signs Open Access Petition From League Of European Research Libraries (LERU)
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|From the National Library of Sweden (via Google Translate): Research funding should go to research, not to the publishers! That is the message in the call for Open Access as the organization League of European Research Universities, LERU, initiative. The signatories want the EU and the future Dutch Presidency of the EU will work with […]
From U. of Iowa: The University of Iowa Libraries has launched the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio, a new unit serving faculty, student, and community scholars with an expert staff and access to a range of digital tools and platforms. A centrally funded campus resource, the Studio also houses the Studio Scholars Program, a faculty research group dedicated […]
From the British Standards Institute: NBS [National Building Specification], BSI (British Standards Institution) and the Construction Products Association (CPA) will be inviting professionals from throughout the construction industry to participate in a major research project looking at the feasibility and usefulness of a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for building products. Part funded by Innovate UK […]
From the U.S. Copyright Office: Register of Copyrights Maria A. Pallante today released a public draft of the Copyright Office’s Strategic Plan, setting forth the Office’s performance objectives for the next five years. Reflecting the results of four years of internal evaluations and public input, the Strategic Plan lays out a vision of a modern […]