July 5, 2014 – Access

Ruth’s Rankings 1. Introduction: Unwinding the Web of International Research Rankings

Asia Pacific, Research Support, Ruth's RankingsJuly 5, 2014

By Ruth A. Pagell* (5 July 2014) I find rankings fascinating. I wrote my first article about rankings over 25 years ago when I was trying to sort out different listings of “biggest” U.S. companies and moved on to researching biggest companies world-wide. Who was biggest varied among different sources based on different criteria. Two…

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Google starts scrubbing news articles from search after court ruling

Internet, UncategorizedJuly 5, 2014

(3 July 2104) Raising concerns about censorship and the freedom of the press, articles from major British news outlets are beginning to be removed from some Google search results after a European court ruling began allowing citizens to request their personal histories to be scrubbed from search engines. The Time website has the story about the…

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University of Sydney named as JSTOR’s 2013 Highest Usage Award recipient in Australia

Asia Pacific, LibrariesJuly 5, 2014

(4 July 2014) As the highest institutional JSTOR user in Australia (and the 19th highest user worldwide), the University of Sydney logged the highest number of PDF downloads for archival content on the JSTOR platform in 2013—more than any other participating institution in Australia. More here.

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Ensuring long-term access to digital publications by Preserving eBooks

eBooksJuly 5, 2014

(4 July 2014) The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has published the latest in its series of DPC Technology Watch Reports, Preserving eBooks this week. Written by Portico’s Amy Kirchhoff and Sheila Morrissey, and published in association with Charles Beagrie Ltd., this report discusses the current developments and issues with which public, national and higher education…

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