ebrary®, a ProQuest business, announced 1 November that its flagship eBook subscription collection, Academic Complete™, has been awarded the title of Library Journal’s Best E-book Database. The award, which was voted on by numerous reference librarians, further strengthens Academic Complete’s position as the best valued eBook database in the industry and marks the second highly…
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Statistics 2010–2011, the latest in a series of annual publications that describe the collections, staffing, expenditures, and service activities of ARL’s 126 member libraries in 2011. Of these, 115 are university libraries (16 in Canada and 99 in the US); the remaining 11 are public,…
The 2012 ANZIA Awards recognizing excellence in businesses, organisations and individuals to the development and use of the Internet in Australia and New Zealand were presented at a gala dinner in Canberra on 10 October. The ANZIAs are a collaboration between the .au Domain Administration (auDA) and InternetNZ and are judged by an independent panel…
Amazon.com, Inc. has revealed its selections for Best Books of 2012. This annual feature includes the Editors’ Picks for the Top 100 Books of the Year and Top 10 lists in over two dozen categories, from Literature & Fiction to Children’s Books to Celebrity Picks, a new feature this year that includes favourites chosen by…
SAGE publishes report following roundtable in association with the British Library In April 2012, leading independent academic and professional publisher SAGE convened a roundtable in association with the British Library into the role of the academic library in an open access (OA) future. Chaired by publishing consultant Simon Inger and attended by an international panel…
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Managing Born-Digital Special Collections and Archival Materials, SPEC Kit 329, which explores the tools, workflow, and policies special collections and archives staff use to process, manage, and provide access to born-digital materials they collect. This SPEC Kit looks at which staff process and manage born-digital materials and…
The National Library of China (NLC) has gained access to the Cambridge Journals Digital Archive (CJDA) Complete Collection. The complete CJDA comprises 207 journals published from 1770 to 2010 and will provide substantial support to research institutes and universities throughout China. The broad subject areas within the archive were an important factor for the NLC,…
Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print edition in the United States will be the Dec. 31 issue. Meanwhile, Newsweek will expand its rapidly growing tablet and online presence, as well as its successful global partnerships and events business.…
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched a web content collecting initiative. The Library is selecting web content as part of its mission to collect, preserve, and make accessible the scholarly biomedical literature as well as resources that illustrate…
A GBP10 million Government investment announced recently by Universities and Science Minister David Willetts will help UK universities with the transition to open access to publicly-funded research findings. The investment will enable a number of research-intensive UK institutions to kick-start the process of developing policies and setting up funds to meet the costs of article…
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