(27 June 2013, Danvers, Mass.) – Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization creating global licensing and content solutions that make copyright work for everyone, announces enhancements to its award-winning Get It Now academic solution, including the integration of OCLC’s ILL Fee Management (IFM) Service and the addition of five new publishers: ME Sharpe…
(27 June 2013) Jisc and Wikimedia UK are collaborating on a project to bring the academic world and Wikipedia closer together. This will create opportunities for researchers, educators, and the general public to contribute to the world’s freely available knowledge. Jisc, the UK education charity championing the use of digital technology in education and research, is…
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories, COAR, has published the report, “Incentives, Integration, and Mediation: Sustainable Practices for Populating Repositories” by COAR Working Group 1: Repository Content. The report profiles a variety of successful practices for populating repositories from around the world. The aim of this report is to assist the global repository community in implementing sustainable methods for recruiting content. The profiles…
The website for the 2014 IATUL Conference to be held at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland from 2-5 June can be accessed at http://web.lib.aalto.fi/iatul2014/. The theme of the conference is “Measures for Success: Library Resources and Effectiveness under Scrutiny” and the call for papers is now open. The 2013 IATUL conference proceedings can be accessed at http://www.iatul.org/conferences/pastconferences/ More here:…
The Southeast Asia Library Group Annual Meeting 2013 will take place in Lisbon in collaboration with the 7th EUROSEAS Conference at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon, Rua Almerindo Lessa (Ajuda University Campus). The conference will be held from 2 to 6 July 2013. The complete list of the conference panels,…
(25 June 2013) Richard Poynder writing in his blog Open and Shut writes that Danny Kingsley — Manager for Scholarly Communications & ePublishing at the Australian National University (ANU) — has highlighted a number of publishers that have recently changed their self-archiving (Green OA) policies. One of them is Springer — the world’s second-largest journal…
Japan’s National Diet Library has published online the National Diet Library Newsletter No. 189, June 2013 Selections from NDL Collection Haetori-de : the time Kodomo no Kuni reflects Events The Japan Specialist Workshop 2013 Symposium “Why support for overseas Japanese Studies now?” Events Lecture by Ms. Cornelia Diebel from the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, “Acquiring Digital Information…
(26 June 2013) Copia, the socially-driven digital content platform that provides customized learning solutions for students, educators and publishers, today announced two major partnerships in Australia, where it is the leading partner in the region for eBook aggregation and distribution. A strategic partner of the Australian Publishers Association (APA), Copia is powering the eBook component…
(Washington, D.C. 26 June 2013) The Library Copyright Alliance applauds the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for finalizing the Treaty for the Blind, a treaty that will allow nations to share or make accessible copies for the print disabled in other countries, who more often than not, have little access to reading materials. WIPO issued…
(Columbus, OH, 25 June 2013) – Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) announced today that the SciFinder® interface now enables a range of APIs designed to streamline researchers’ workflows. CAS has collaborated with several customers to develop API support for reaction, substance and reference searching. CAS is initially offering this functionality to customers in the corporate market.…
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