(12 July 2014) The EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project started in December 2013 continues to progress. Students and faculty at Yangon University and Mandalay University now have unrestricted access to an online library of over 10,000 high-quality international journals and over 130,000 academic eBooks. The training of librarians, faculty and students has also started with over…
(11 July 2014) The Associate Editor will be responsible for developing and updating the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) within the framework of the editorial plan and in response to current and future needs of the worldwide Dewey user community – 200,000 libraries in 135 countries plus emerging uses inside and outside of libraries. Slisjobs has…
(11 July 2014) Jonathan Band, policybandwidth and legal counsel to the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), has released an analysis of the recent Authors Guild v. HathiTrust decision, “What Does the HathiTrust Decision Mean for Libraries?” (PDF). As Band notes, “The decision has implications for libraries that go far beyond the specific facts of the case.…
(10 July 2014) The Europeana Newspapers project, in which LIBER is a partner, has just released a promotional video showcasing historic newspapers.
(11 July 2014) The International Association of University Libraries offers grants of up to €UR2,000 to staff from member libraries to travel to other member libraries for periods of at least two weeks to investigate current issues of importance to IATUL libraries. Applications may be made by any staff member at an IATUL member library…
(11 July 2014) With the new report Global Trends in Publishing, the Frankfurt Book Fair Business Club has produced an overview of current developments in the international book market. The report’s author is the well-known industry expert Rüdiger Wischenbart. From internationalisation and publisher acquisitions to global growth markets and print versus online, the structure of…
(9 July 2014, Philadelphia, PA) Elsevier announced today the launch of PolicyNavigator, a knowledge management tool for healthcare organizations (HCOs). PolicyNavigator allows executives, administrators and healthcare legal professionals to create, exchange, review, approve and share knowledge and documents quickly and easily, and ensures that content remains current and appropriate for use. The full details are…
(7 July 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh) A non-profit platform in Bangladesh is aiding in the setup and sustenance of libraries in remote districts and villages of the country. The efforts of the Village Library Movement, initiated in 2006, have already benefited at least 3,000 readers through nearly 30 libraries. Al Jazeera has the story.
(8 July 2014, London) SAGE announces the retraction of 60 articles implicated in a peer review and citation ring at the Journal of Vibration and Control (JVC). The full extent of the peer review ring has been uncovered following a 14 month SAGE-led investigation, and centres on the strongly suspected misconduct of Peter Chen, formerly…
(7 July 2014) KGB files from the famous Mitrokhin Archive – described by the FBI as ‘the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source’ – will today open to the public for the first time. From 1972 to 1984, Major Vasiliy Mitrokhin was a senior archivist in the KGB’s foreign intelligence archive…
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