Duke University has received a grant from the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme to digitize and preserve a trove of ancient religious manuscripts related to Bon, the pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet. The Menri Monstery in India’s Himachal Pradesh state owns the largest collection of Bon manuscripts in the world. Most were rescued from monasteries in…
(New Delhi, 13 June 2013) Today Amazon announced that Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9” will be available starting June 27 on Amazon.in for customers in India, giving them access to over 1.9 million of apps, games and books, including more than 325,000 books that are exclusive to the Kindle Store. Kindle Fire…
(Chicago, 14 June 2013) Based on groundbreaking research undertaken by editors Jane Secker and Emma Coonan as part of the prestigious Arcadia Program at Cambridge University, UK, “Rethinking Information Literacy: A Practical Framework for Supporting Learning,” published by Facet Publishing and available through the ALA Store, presents a new and dynamic information literacy curriculum developed…
(5 June 2013) Today the European Parliament formally adopted the updated EU rules on the re-use of public sector information, thereby completing the formal EU approval process. The Council already agreed to the new rules at the Telecoms Council last week. The agreement on the new text has been reached in only 16 months, showing…
That question was recently discussed at a workshop, Dealing With Data, organised by LIBER and OpenAIRE. The workshop included presentations and discussions from nearly 20 speakers. Key learning points from the session included: the existence of a perceived lack of confidence about dealing with data in research libraries; a need for libraries to consider working collaboratively with other…
(16 May 2013) A major survey of UK Academics released today examines the attitudes of researchers and practitioners working within higher education. It sheds light on their behaviours, including their reliance on digital technologies, the internet and open access. The survey of academics, funded and guided by Jisc and RLUK and conducted on their behalf…
(Morrisville, NC, 10 June 2013) The completely rebuilt Dialog® information service is making its official debut at the Special Libraries Association Conference underway in San Diego. Now called ProQuest Dialog™, the service reinvents a classic resource making its rich, unique content – about a billion documents – accessible for the first time to searchers of all…
(May 2013) The volume of freely available online resources continues to grow exponentially. Taylor & Francis have conducted a research programme to help explore the issues relating to free content discoverability from the perspective of librarians. It’s aim was to understand what role librarians see free content having within their institutions; its relative importance compared…
World’s health researchers join together to share and use ‘big data’ (5 June 2013) More than 60 leading health care, research and disease advocacy organisations from across the world are joining together to form an international alliance dedicated to enabling secure sharing of genomic and clinical data. Each of these organisations has signed a ‘Letter…
(12 June 2013) The new ANU Archives database went live in May, and includes information about all deposits in the Noel Butlin Archives Centre (a collection of records from Australian organisations); all series in the University Archives, and details of all the organisations and people who created them—1,800 organisational descriptions, and over 1,200 authority records…
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