(30 August 2013) Illustrations of the Reports of General MacArthur have been added to the NDL Digitized Contents. They consist of maps, photographs and paintings from the Reports of General MacArthur. The original materials are owned by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Five items (about 500 images) of digitized contents from the Illustrations…
(28 August) Publishing Technology and CNPIEC, the China National Publications Import and Export (Group) Corporation have unveiled the CNP eReading platform at the Beijing International Book Fair this week. At launch, the site carries over 200,000 individual book titles from more than 300 international publishers, extending their reach into the rapidly growing Chinese market and…
BASE, the multi-disciplinary search engine for academically relevant OAI-Sources worldwide, which was created and developed by Bielefeld University Library, has hit the 50 million records mark. The records are provided by about 2,700 repositories worldwide. In this year alone, about 10,000,000 records have been indexed. BASE makes it possible to search for more than 50,000,000…
(27 August 2013) The MIT Press has become the 14th press to join the University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform since its launch in September 2011. The launch of MIT Press Scholarship Online has added over 300 titles to the UPSO platform, bringing together the best of The MIT Press’s scholarly publishing. Available in 14…
(23 August 2013) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant in the amount of USD437,000 to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in partnership with Indiana University for an exciting new project in the HathiTrust Research Center. The “Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis: Prototyping Project” (WCSA) project will be directed by HTRC Co-director…
Springer has introduced the ‘full book download functionality’ on SpringerLink and Springer for R and D in response to the high demand for this feature by our authors, researchers and library customers. This new functionality allows users to download all chapters of a book in one go. Next to this feature, users can view an…
PowerPoint presentations and videos are now available from the Academic Librarian 3: The Yin-Yang of Future Consortial Collaboration and Competition website. The conference took place in Hong Kong, 30-31 May 2013.
(Brussels, 17 July 2013) The European Commission today outlined measures to improve access to scientific information produced in Europe. Broader and more rapid access to scientific papers and data will make it easier for researchers and businesses to build on the findings of public-funded research. This will boost Europe’s innovation capacity and give citizens quicker…
(15 August 2013) Singapore announced the release of more data and its intension to make all datasets on data.gov.sg and OneMap machine-readable by the end of 2013, with an eye on driving social innovation and co-creation, reports futuregov. Data.gov.sg is a one-stop data portal with 8600 datasets from 60 public agencies, currently. Since its launch in…
(22 August 2013) The Research and Legislative Reference Bureau of Japan’s National Diet Library conducts cross-sectoral research on important political issues. Research Material “Japan-US Relations Reconsidered” is the result of the research conducted from 2012 to 2013 to analyze Japan-US relations in the context of the international situation in the Asia Pacific region which faces…
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