(10 Jun 2014) Immediately preceding the ICSTI 2014 General Assembly will be a workshop titled “Enhancing Discoverability and Accessibility of Scientific and Technical Research Information and Data”. It will explore the intersections in technical aspects and approaches to discoverability and improved accessibility to scientific and technical research information and data. Existing models representing the university,…
(4 June 2014) This Arts Council of UK evidence review marks an important first step in our understanding of the contribution public libraries can make at an economic level, whilst also assessing the scale of contribution a library can make to individuals and communities via the social and educational benefits they provide. The news is…
(10 June 2014, Alexandria, VA) Powerful new online academic collections are now available from Alexander Street Press in the fields of international business, human resource management, counseling and therapy, and Asian film. The two newest resources in the Business division—International Business Online and Human Resource Management Online—are available as stand-alone resources or as part of…
(9 June 2014) The 2014 PRDLA Program Planning Committee is pleased to announce the theme of the 2014 meeting will be Revealing the Hidden: the collections of the Pacific Rim. Submissions are welcome. The 2014 annual meeting takes place in Macau, 2-4 December. More here.
(9 June 2014) The Open and Shut? blog curated by Richard Poynder interviews S. Arunachalam on what is happening with open access in India, and the form that it is taking. Read the interview here.
(10 June 2014) La Trobe University’s Academic Referencing Tool gives detailed examples for many of the prescribed styles of referencing used at the university including AGLC, APA 6, Harvard (AGPS) and Footnoting (Oxford). It was created for La Trobe students, by La Trobe librarians, in consultation with La Trobe academic staff. The tool includes examples of in-text…
(9 June 2014, Adelaide, Australia, and Christchurch, New Zealand) Ex Libris® Group and Lincoln University are pleased to announce that the University has opted for the Ex Libris Alma library management service and the Primo® discovery and delivery solution. Deployed in the cloud, Alma and Primo will provide the University’s students and academic staff with…
Paper summarizes community input to development of potential standards and recommended practices for research assessment metrics (9 June 2014) The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released a draft white paper summarizing Phase I of its Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Project for public comment. The Initiative was launched in July 2013, with a grant from…
(3 June 2014) ‘Library at The Dock’, a new library and community centre by Clare Design and Hayball in the heart of Docklands, Melbourne, officially opened on Saturday, marking the nation’s first public building to be made from cross laminated timber (CLT). Located on the waterfront of the Victoria Harbour, this method of construction –…
(5 June 2014) On the 1st June 2014, new amendments to the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 came into force. Hailed by the library community as a breakthrough in copyright law reform, the changes will enable UK librarians in the cultural heritage and educational sectors to provide reasonable access to important works from…
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