(25 July 2014) In July 2014, Google Street View images of the Tokyo Main Library and the International Library of Children’s Literature (ILCL) were published online. With the new 360-degree imagery, you can see images of some spots within the venues such as: Catalog Hall of the Tokyo Main Library, and Children’s Library, Researchers’ Reading…
(26 July 2014) This book by Ismail Abdullahi, A.Y. Asundi & C.R. Karisddappa (Eds) addresses the different issues and challenges that face LIS education in the various regions of the developing world, but also the commonalities that link them. It highlights the successful ways in which problems may be met as well as those which have proved…
(23 July 2014) IHS Inc. and Oxford University Press (OUP) today announced that a collection of authoritative engineering reference books from OUP have been integrated into the IHS cloud-based technical research solution. This solution, called IHS Knowledge Collections, is used by engineers, scientists and researchers to find answers to tough technical challenges. More here.
(23 July 2014) Yale-NUS College embraces a complex curriculum that reaches across a variety of disciplines. and introduces a range of global perspectives, encourages active student participation in their education through small discussion-based classes and research projects conducted with classmates and faculty mentors, offers extensive opportunities to learn and work away from the campus, and…
(22 July 2014, Tacloban City) The Asia Foundation’s Books for Asia program, in partnership with the Philippines-Australia Community Assistance Program (PACAP), donated 8,702 books to 11 elementary schools on 18 July in Tacloban City to help address the urgent need of students as they return for the new school year. The turnover activity is part…
(22 July 2014, Boston, MA) National Geographic Learning (NGL), part of global education company, Cengage Learning, has been awarded six Hermes Creative Awards from The Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals (AMCP), recognizing its creative marketing campaigns which engage students and instructors from around the world. Hermes Creative Awards is an international competition for creative…
(21 July 2014) Springer is celebrating the milestone of 200,000 open access articles published to date. The articles, published across BioMed Central, and SpringerOpen are freely available and published under a Creative Commons (CC) license. Springer now has 417 open access journals publishing across all areas of science – 265 at BioMed Central and 152…
(21 July 2014) The Succeed project has recently launched two new resources for the promotion of state-of-the-art tools for text digitisation. An overview on available tools: http://succeed-project.eu/publications/available-tools. This overview contains over 200 different tools with a search engine capable to filter by group, language, type, etc. It has also a login system that allows anyone to…
(21 July 2014, Alexandria, VA) Alexander Street Press has just added more than 5.2 million tracks to its award-winning streaming audio databases. Available to subscribing academic libraries worldwide—and offering up to 6.2 million tracks in many regions—the newly licensed content increases sixfold the listening portfolio at no additional cost. Works come from a broad range…
(15 July 2014, Seattle, WA) Reinforcing the value of libraries as the hub for university research, ProQuest is transforming end-to-end researcher workflows by integrating Flow™, a research management and collaboration solution, with the Summon® discovery service. Serving as the digital front door to the library, the Summon service provides discovery of academic materials across collections.…
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