(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.…
(18 July 2014) The SCOAP3 repository hosts Open Access articles published under the SCOAP3 initiative. It is built on Open Source software and is now open for the community to harvest content through OAI-PMH feeds. It has been recently featured at the Open Repository 2014 conference. The SCOAP3 initiative has converted to Open Access the majority of the…
(18 July 2014) The Hyundai Card Travel Library, which opened in Cheongdam-dong in May as part of the company’s long-term project to promote design, offers its customers a classy cultural experience, reports The Korean Herald. This new library is currently the world’s largest travel-specific library, with some 14,700 books. The story with terrific images is here.…
(18 July 2014) Applications are invited for the appointment of a Research Librarian, Accountancy in the Li Ka Shing Library, Singapore Management University (SMU). SMU is also hiring a Library Specialist, Information Access and Resources; Head, Information Services; and Research Librarian, Economics. More on the SMU website.
(18 July 2014) The dates are set for the Library 2.014 Worldwide Virtual Conference. The fourth annual global conversation about the future of libraries is scheduled for 8-9 October 2014. The conference will once again be held entirely online around the clock in multiple languages and time zones. Everyone is invited to participate in this…
(17 July 2014) Over seven years, BRAC University in Bangladesh carried out a number of projects focused on making significant improvements to university library. These improvements included: developing an institutional repository; an integrated library system and a library resource portal. Through these projects, the BRAC University library aimed to develop a 21st Century world-class knowledge…
Treasure-trove of lost library is now freely available (15 July 2014) For close to 180 years, Charles Darwin’s library aboard the ship HMS Beagle during his landmark expedition around the world in the 1830s remained lost. The library was dispersed at the end of the voyage. Today, the library has been electronically re-constructed in its…
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