(13 August 2014) Europeana.eu has added a new feature to the portal to help you find content across languages. The feature allows you to translate the keyword you search with into 6 languages and then the search is made with all of them. Let’s say you’ve defined English, French, Dutch, Polish, German and Swedish as…
(13 August 2014) Artstor and the J. Paul Getty Museum have released more than 5,000 images from the museum’s Open Content Program in the Digital Library. The Getty’s Open Content Program makes available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain. Among the images now available in…
(11 August 2014) The South China Morning Post reports on the growing space crunch in Hong Kong’s university libraries and what one librarian is doing about it. The story by Linda Yeung is here.
(12 August 2014) Given the current widespread and lethal outbreak of the Ebola virus, AAAS’ journals Science and Science Translational Medicine offer a freely available collection of research and news articles on the viral disease to researchers and the general public. The special collection is here.
(11 August 2014) The Australian government is seeking to amend its copyright act to address online copyright infringement. To that purpose, a discussion paper has been issued for public input until 1 September. The Online Copyright Infringement Discussion Paper released in July, makes a number of proposals to amend the Australian Copyright Act of 1968.…
(11 August 2014) A two day workshop on creating and managing a library consortium, and licensing eResources, will be held at the National Library in Malé, capital of the Maldives, on 22nd and 23rd of September. Convened by Fathimath Shiham, EIFL Country Coordinator and deputy director of the National Library, the workshop will be gathering…
(12 August 2014) The EIFL Public Library Innovation Award for services contributing to education of children and adults is now open. This call for applications is open to public and community libraries in developing and transition countries that use information and communication technology (ICT) in creative ways to contribute to education of children or adults.…
(11 August 2014, Emeryville, CA) Innovative announced today that Chulalongkorn University, Khon Kaen University, King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, and Mahidol University have all selected the Sierra Library Services Platform. They will migrate from Innovative’s Millennium ILS.
It’s called Chronicling America, a website from the Library of Congress providing digitized searchable facsimiles of historic American newspapers. But it’s also a great source of historic news and reporting on Asia. Having recently passed the 8 million pages landmark, these antique newspapers covering the period 1836-1922, are full of news about Asia, perhaps more then…
By Ruth A. Pagell1 (8 August 2014) We ended the first article by presenting a series of different rankings which we did not explain. Before we drill down into them, it is important to view the different rankings in the context of the past scholarly rankings environment and the current higher education policy environment. In the…
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