(21 March 2014) The Run Run Shaw Library has announced the soft launch of the beta version of the CityU Scholarly Repository which aims at indexing, archiving, preserving and disseminating the scholarly works of faculty members. Contents in the Repository are discoverable by search engines and indexing tools such as Google, Google Scholar and OAIster…
North Carolina State University Libraries’ James B. Hunt Jr. Library recognized for its signature building that leverages digital technology to foster collaboration, reflection and awe. (20 March 2014, Stanford, CA) Entries for this year’s Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries (SPIRL) spanned the globe. Institutions from Germany, Japan, Korea and Spain as well as…
(20 March 2014, Tokyo and Rome) NTT DATA Corporation, a global IT solutions provider, today announced it was selected to contribute to the project of digitally archiving manuscripts of the Vatican Apostolic Library. The overall project, which was started by the Vatican Apostolic Library some years ago and is currently ongoing with an initial output…
(19 March 2014) Internet2, a computer-networking consortium whose infrastructure supports the work of tens of thousands of educators and researchers across the United States, expects to formalize a partnership with its counterpart in India this month. Officials say the move will clear the way for collaboration between American and Indian researchers on a scale never seen…
EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. It offers thousands of theses about the Asia Pacific region. It supports the UK Government’s open access principle that publications resulting from publicly-funded research should be made freely available for all researchers, providing opportunities…
(19 March 2014) To equip students and staff members with the essential knowledge of copyright and trademarks, the Knowledge Transfer Office (KTO), Run Run Shaw Library, and City University of Hong Kong Press are co-organizing a half-day training workshop on copyright and trademarks on 11 April 2014. It is the latest in the Intellectual Property…
(11 March 2014, Chicago) Britannica Digital Learning today announced Britannica Library, the next generation of its comprehensive reference and research service for library users of all ages. The newly designed site is Britannica’s richest library product to date and includes new and continuously revised articles from encyclopedias, journals and periodicals, related multimedia, primary sources, links…
(17 March 2014) FAO today launched a new database which gathers under one roof previously scattered information about land cover – how much land is covered by croplands, trees, forests, or bare soils – crucial to establishing a good global understanding of the physical characteristics of the Earth’s surface. “A strong understanding of our planet’s…
(20 March 2014) Dave Lyons, International Librarian’s Network (ILN) country coordinator for China, cherishes the National Library of China building. Read why with links to video and photographs, here.
18 March 2014) The DPLA has submitted an entry to the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which asks entrants to answer the question: how can we strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation? Large-scale collections like the Digital Public Library of America, Europeana, Trove, and DigitalNZ are weakened by a lack of common agreement over…
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