(8 July 2014) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. today announced the addition of Altmetric data to its journal program, a service that provides a more complete picture of how users engage with scholarly research online. Following the success of a six-month pilot on Wiley Open Access titles in 2013, the service will be available for…
(8 July 2014) This ground-breaking edited collection from Facet Publishing explores the challenges of preserving complex digital objects such as simulations, visualisations, digital art and video games. Drawing on the outputs of the JISC-funded Preservation of Complex Objects (POCOS) symposia, enhanced with specialist pathfinder solutions, this book covers topics such as the legal and technical…
(7 July 2014) Computer analysis of photographs could help doctors diagnose which condition a child with a rare genetic disorder has, reports the Wellcome Trust. Oxford University researchers funded by the Wellcome Trust, MRC and NIHR, have come up with a computer programme that recognises facial features in photographs; looks for similarities with facial structures…
(8 July 2014) The Lee Kong Chian (LKC) Research Fellowship aims to facilitate new research and publishing about Singapore and Southeast Asian culture, economy and heritage. This will enrich the Asia-centric collections and resources of the Lee Kong Chian Reference Library at the National Library of Singapore. The LKC Research Fellowship is open to both…
(7 July 2014) The Europeana Sounds project was launched on 1 February 2014. This three-year project, co-funded by the European Commission, will give online access to a critical mass of audiovisual digital-objects by January 2017. Over 540,000 high quality sound recordings will be available via Europeana, from classical and folk music, to environmental sounds from…
(7 July 2014) The language barrier is the most compelling reason why Japanese science is not as well known as it should be. For medicine, that is now changing. Meteo, a Japanese publisher, offers Medical*Online-E that mechanically translates Japanese medical literature into English, Chinese and Korean, and delivers them to health professionals all over the…
(4 July 2014) Google has agreed to change the way it implements Europe’s new “right to be forgotten” measure after being criticised for being over-zealous in its approach to blocking results in name-based searches. More than 70,000 people have asked Google to delete links to articles about them after a ruling in May by the…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (5 July 2014) I find rankings fascinating. I wrote my first article about rankings over 25 years ago when I was trying to sort out different listings of “biggest” U.S. companies and moved on to researching biggest companies world-wide. Who was biggest varied among different sources based on different criteria. Two…
(3 July 2104) Raising concerns about censorship and the freedom of the press, articles from major British news outlets are beginning to be removed from some Google search results after a European court ruling began allowing citizens to request their personal histories to be scrubbed from search engines. The Time website has the story about the…
(4 July 2014) As the highest institutional JSTOR user in Australia (and the 19th highest user worldwide), the University of Sydney logged the highest number of PDF downloads for archival content on the JSTOR platform in 2013—more than any other participating institution in Australia. More here.
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