(25 November 2015) SCOAP3 held its second Forum, entitled “The impact of SCOAP3” on 18 November 2015. The SCOAP3Executive Committee, joined by several guest speakers, presented on the impact of SCOAP3 for libraries, scientists and funding agencies. A recording of the webinar is now available at http://scoap3.org/scoap3-forum-2015. The video and the accompanying slides provide information on The SCOAP3…
(22 November 2015) Whether new or old, libraries can be more sustainable with little effort and imagination. At the simple end of being green is buying locally made furniture, equipment and fittings, reducing electricity consumption by switching to energy saving light bulbs and recycling paper or using only that from managed forests. Academic Librarian 4,…
(23 November 2015, Tainan, Taiwan) A human library launched by National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, provides booklovers in the university community a revolutionary library-going experience. The event will run until December 11. The theme of the human library is immigrant, with a special emphasis on Southeast Asian migrant workers. A total of 10…
(22 November 2015) TorrentFreak reports that last month a New York District Court issued a preliminary injunction against several sites that provide unauthorized access to academic journals. As a result the operators were ordered to quit offering access to any Elsevier content and the associated registries had to suspend their domain names. After a few…
(11 December 2015) The preservation of documentary heritage materials is one of the daunting tasks of memory institutions worldwide. This task is becoming more and more important, not least because of the fast development of the Internet and the digital technologies as well as with the well-documented need for updated legislation at national and international…
(19 November 2015, Los Angeles, CA) SAGE is delighted to announce that SAGE Knowledge, an expansive social science digital library for students, researchers, and faculty, is now live on a new platform for use on all devices and featuring multiple content types. Originally launched in 2012, SAGE Knowledge currently hosts more than 6,100 titles and videos,…
(29 October 2015) Faster transportation, a one-stop portal for personal health information or saving lives, these are just some of the new services being developed by the dynamic data science and analytics team at the IDA Hive. Located at the newly-opened Sandcrawler, the IDA Hive is home to the Government Digital Services team made up…
(19 December 2015) RCNi, publisher of the weekly Nursing Standard and a suite of specialist nursing journals, has joined forces with web-based service Kudos to help authors increase the visibility and impact of their work. Using Kudos, authors can help spread the word about their work among their peers, professional networks, the media, and those…
(19 November 2015) The National Library of Singapore is pleased to announce the launch of PublicationSG on 20 November 2015. An online catalogue of over one million materials published in Singapore and deposited with the National Library, its contents are now available to the public upon request. This collection includes printed and audio-visual publications such…
(18 November 2015) Web of Science has announced the addition of Emerging Sources Citation Index for all subscribers of the three core citation indexes: Science, Social Science and Arts & Humanities. If “emerging sources” conjures up images of remote locations or a picture of a struggling researcher coming out of the jungle with a pile…
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