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1. Privacy: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Launches Certbot Client for Let’s Encrypt 2. Opera Web Browser (For Desktop) Adds Power Saving Mode & Changes to Built-In VPN 3. bibliotheca Cloud Library (aka 3M Cloud Library) Plans to Offer Pay-Per-Use Pricing For eBooks and Audiobooks Later this Year 4. Reference: A Periodic Table of Ed-Tech Startups […]
1. Ex Libris Achieves ISO 27018 Certification (Personally Identifiable Information in the Cloud) ||| Learn More About ISO 27018 (via ISO) 2. Six Finalists in First International Open Science Prize Announced ||| More Here (via NIH) 3. Gale Launches New Research Platform to Develop Critical Thinking Skills and Enable Faculty-Librarian Collaboration 4. HighWire Press Welcomes […]
Digital Preservation: Portico Hits 1 Billion Files Preserved
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Gale, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Preservation, Publishing
From ITHAKA: Today ITHAKA announced that its large-scale digital preservation service Portico now preserves one billion files or, in practical terms, more than 20,000 e-journals, 400,000 e-books, and 600 million images that include vast collections of historical newspapers. Portico has nearly doubled the amount of content it preserves in the past year, representing the ingestion […]
Now Available: Recordings of Sessions From Recent Center For Research Libraries (CRL) Collections Forum
| Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Gale, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation, Profiles, Public Libraries
The videos (audio + static slide) from the recently held Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Collections Forum were made available online today. @Risk: Stewardship, Due Diligence, and the Future of Print, a CRL Collections Forum took place in Chicago on April 14-15, 2016. A detailed agenda is available here including session descriptions. Speaker profiles are […]
News Roundup
| Funding, Gale, News, Publishing, Roundup
1. UNC Press Receives $50,000 Grant to Support Work of UNC Office of Scholarly Publishing Services 2. Columbia University researchers claim 28% of Google’s URL takedown requests are invalid (via Search Engine Land) 3. Congress.gov Adds More Quick Search Capabilities (via In Custodia Legis) 4. Partnership: Rosen Publishing Gets Exclusive Publishing Rights to Popular Gale […]
1. OCLC Will Continue to Operate FirstSearch as Separate Service ||| FAQs 2. Linked Data: Zepheira and Innovative Announce Partnership 3. Highwire Press Launches Integration with Peer Review Evaluation Service For Science Journals 4. Cambridge University Press Signs Historic Agreement with Egypt 5. Gale Grows Digital Archive Program to Better Address Research Needs and Further […]
Gale Now Provides Newspaper Collection Metadata to CRL’s ICON Database
| Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Gale, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports
From the Center For Research Libraries (CRL): Detailed information on the contents of major commercial databases is notoriously hard to come by, making it difficult for libraries to assess the value and comprehensiveness of such resources. Gale, a division of Cengage Learning, recently agreed to provide CRL with title and issue records for content in the digital newspaper collections […]
From MyNewsLA: More than two dozen students who took part in an online high school completion program offered by the Los Angeles Public Library received diplomas Tuesday at a ceremony attended by Mayor Eric Garcetti and other city officials [Clip] City Librarian John Szabo said “the library is changing lives in a very big way.” The […]
The winner of the 2014 Gale/LJ Library of the Year, the Edmonton Public Library shares some of their 2015 accomplishments in this new 4.5 minute year-in-review video.
Acquisition Complete: Say Hello to Ex Libris, a ProQuest Company
| Associations and Organizations, EBSCO, Ex Libris, Gale, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
From PQ: ProQuest has completed its acquisition of Ex Libris Group, a leading global provider of cloud‑based solutions for higher education. ‘This is a momentous day for our company as we officially welcome Ex Libris and its talented team to ProQuest,’ said Kurt Sanford, ProQuest CEO. ‘We are bringing together a truly unique, expansive combination […]
