September 28, 2014

The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices, 2014-15 edition

Databases, LibrariesSeptember 28, 2014

This report from the Primary Research Group published recently, focuses on the database licensing practices of research libraries with data presented separately for legal, corporate, higher education and other libraries. The study presents up to date data on database spending broken out by type of information vehicle (eBook, Journals Database, Other Periodicals Database, Directory, etc.)…

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USPTO and KIPO announce KIPO’s full expansion of the cooperative patent classification system

Asia PacificSeptember 28, 2014

(25 September 2014, Washington) The U.S. Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) today announced a major expansion of cooperation in classification activities between the USPTO and KIPO. The agreement, signed by the heads of the two offices during a bilateral meeting in Geneva, Switzerland,…

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Release of BitCurator 1.0: free and open-source software for libraries, archives and museums

Libraries, TechnologySeptember 28, 2014

(26 September 2014) The BitCurator project today announced the release of BitCurator 1.0, a free and open-source digital forensics software environment for libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) to acquire and process born-digital materials. The BitCurator environment can be installed as a Linux environment; run as a virtual machine on top of other operating systems (Windows,…

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