(5 August 2015) Changes to copyright law will allow the National Library of Australia to significantly increase its collection of electronic publications, including eBooks and websites In addition to expanding legal deposit provisions to encompass eBooks, the amendment will allow the NLA to issue a request for electronic material that it considers belongs in its…
(5 August 2015). Turnitin has surveyed students to find out what they think about the value of writing, originality and feedback, and then also to ask them their opinions about Turnitin. The results were encouraging and quite positive. It appears that Turnitin’s Originality Reports, alone, seem to help them improve significantly in avoiding plagiarism. However,…
(5 August 2015) You can easily generate citations from the Artstor Digital Library to save or export into EndNote, ProCite, RefWorks, or Reference Manager. Citations include the creator, title, date, repository, Artstor image ID number, and stable URL for each image. The Artstor blog tells you how.
(3 August 2015) Given the truly international and collaborative nature of research, repositories must be connected and aligned around policy and practices, and standard controlled vocabularies are an extremely important aspect of this alignment. Through an active, international Editorial Board, COAR has begun to develop a series of controlled vocabularies for open access repositories. The…
(4 August 2015) The Library invites applications for the position of Head of the Japanese Section in the Division of Special Collections. As the librarian in charge of Japanese material in the Library, the postholder will be one of four language specialists in the Asian, Near and Middle Eastern Group of the Library. S/he will…
(3 August 2015) Earlier this year, UTS Library undertook a project to refurbish the City Campus Library. Fifty percent of the Library Collection (low-use items only) was moved to a brand new facility, which created new areas in the Library for teaching and learning spaces. The new areas include: study rooms, a silent study area,…
(3 August 2015, Columbus, Ohio and Karlsruhe, Germany) Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and FIZ Karlsruhe are delighted to reveal the latest innovations for Intellectual Property (IP) professionals. New STN, a web-based search solution, offers access to essential, curated content in an intuitive interface designed for professional IP searching. Highlights of this most recent release include…
(15 July 2015) Civica, a leader in specialist systems and business process services that help organisations to transform the way they work has been appointed to the WA Local Government Association (WALGA) Preferred Supply Panel for the Provision of Library Management Systems. This appointment coincides with the release of Spydus10, Civica’s web-based integrated libraries, archives,…
(4 August 2015) The two-day conference kicked off at Taiwan’s National Central Library, Monday. Taiwan’s National Palace Museum Director Feng Ming-chu and the head of the National Library of China, Han Yongjin, are giving keynote addresses at the conference. This is the first time in decades that the top libraries in Taiwan and China have…
(1 August 2015) It has been given the highest Grade I listed status for its outstanding architectural and historic interest The British Library, home to documents ranging from Magna Carta manuscripts to handwritten Beatles lyrics, has become one of England’s youngest buildings to receive protected status. The library, the largest public building to be built…
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