(28 July 2016) The National Library is moving from distant Yankin township to Pabedan township, a convenient environment in the commercial hub of Yangon City. The National Library has a large collection of books, periodicals, manuscripts and other rare books, holding 172,556 books, 435,580 periodicals, 12,323 palm-leaf manuscripts, 345 hand-written letters, 25,468 rare books and…
(29 July 2016) NSLA libraries are set to launch Born Digital 2016 and the inaugural digital preservation week – raising awareness of the importance of preserving digital content for the public good and as a record of 21st century history – 25 years to the week since the first public website went live. The week-long…
Looking for a quiet place to make a phone call? UTS has got you covered (29 July 2016) University Technology Sydney Library is trialing a new acoustic booth. The ‘Framery O’ is a state-of-the-art, entirely sound-proofed unit, perfect for taking phone calls without disturbing the peaceful serenity of the library’s silent floor. The booth includes…
(29 July 2016, Redwood City, CA) Building on the success of Impact Vizor and extensive feedback from the publishing community, HighWire Press today launches Usage Vizor, a new visual analytics and reporting tool for publishers. Designed to provide publishers with insights into how research is being used at both the article- and category-level, Usage Vizor…
(28 July 2016) SAGE Publishing has launched a new platform for the SAGE Research Methods suite of products. The design of the new site was developed alongside student, academic and librarian user communities to improve discovery and user experiences and to allow users to get to the content they need more quickly. Now live, the…
(27 July 2016) The Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars supplement identifies the countries and institutions showing the most significant growth in high-quality research publications, using the power of the Nature Index, which tracks the research of more than 8,000 global institutions. These are the players to watch. It shows that Chinese institutions are leading the…
(25 July 2016) The successful applicant is responsible for providing a comprehensive information service, developing library collections to meet the needs of their assigned Schools and collaboratively developing and delivering embedded information literacy and learning skills programs and activities. Liaison librarians have subject responsibilities for a number of areas and this involves, among other duties,…
(25 July 2016) John Sack of the HighWire Press adds to the ‘impact’ debate by describing “resonance”. He notes that resonance facets include: research resonance – which readers largely agree is legitimately measured by citations; reader resonance – which can be measured by usage (downloads or views, for example) or some scholarly altmetrics; societal resonance – which can be…
(21 July 2016) Scientific publisher, CABI, has launched Open Books. This new programme supports authors and collaborating organisations wishing to publish open access books across a wide range of subject areas within applied life sciences and sustainable tourism. As an international not-for-profit organisation, CABI aims to improve people’s lives worldwide by providing information and applying…
(25 July 2016) EEWOWW has announced the new integration with Google Drive and Dropbox. The integration allows users to access and work on documents stored in Google Drive and Dropbox directly from within the EEWOWW platform. With a few clicks in EEWOWW, users can view and work on documents stored in Google Drive/ Dropbox while…
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