(10 June 2015) This year the Getty Foundation celebrated its 30th anniversary. The event was marked with the launch of its Online Grant Database, which allows access to information about grants awarded since the Foundation’s inception in 1984. The new database offers a number of ways to search for grant information, including a sliding timeline…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (11 June 2015) The existing rankings that we examined in articles 5 to 11 are not designed for the mass market of undergraduate students. Even THE and QS, which include a broader range of metrics, and Webometrics and Altmetrics, which focus on alternative measures, are still primarily tools for policy makers…
(10 June 2015) The National University of Singapore (NUS) has emerged once again as the top university in Asia, retaining its peak position in the latest results of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) University Rankings: Asia 2015. This marks the second consecutive time that NUS has topped the rankings since it was first published in 2009.…
(10 June 2015) Heather Coates guest writes in the Altmetric blog about successful altmetrics outreach. She is a tenure-track librarian, a practitioner-researcher, who needs to know how the scholarly ecosystem works. In practice this needs an understanding of how scholarly products are created, disseminated, used, curated, and evaluated. The article covers helping faculty make strategic…
(9 June 2015) Academic publishing company Elsevier has filed a complaint at a New York District Court, hoping to shut down the Library Genesis project and the SciHub.org search engine. The sites, which are particularly popular in developing nations where access to academic works is relatively expensive, are accused of pirating millions of scientific articles.…
(8 June 2015) Elsevier today introduced its Chemical Resistance Database: Plastics and Elastomers. Available via Knovel, the database is the industry’s largest compilation of normalized data detailing the degradation of plastics and elastomers exposed to a variety of environments and elements. Characterizing the effect of thousands of reagents, the environment and other exposure media, the…
(9 June 2015) Today sees the launch of LibCrowds, a platform dedicated to the hosting of experimental crowdsourcing projects aimed at enhancing access to British Library collections. The first project series, Convert-a-Card, is dedicated to the retro-conversion of printed card catalogues into electronic records, in order to make them available to a worldwide audience via…
(4 June 2015, New York) – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced the release of Lexis Advance® Tax, a specialized research portal providing comprehensive, authoritative legal information, current news, and analysis to tax and estates attorneys, accountants, government tax professionals and other tax practitioners. The unique resource combines an exclusive collection of primary law, leading…
(4 June 2015) Artstor is now making all media collections from open-access library Shared Shelf Commons accessible alongside the Artstor Digital Library. More than 200,000 image, video, document, and audio files from Shared Shelf subscribers in the ever-growing resource can now be searched alongside the 1.9 million images in the Artstor Digital Library. The content…
(3 June 2015, Boston, Oxford) Credo has recently added a wealth of new content, highlighted by the brand new Essentials Collections (collections/essentials-collections.html). These new collections offer curated, award-winning content covering several top-selling subjects, such as Criminal Justice, Nursing, Psychology, and others. The Essentials Collections, along with new Publisher and Subject Collections support libraries in their…
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