CONSAL XVI Proceedings
(13 October 2016) The proceedings of the 16th CONSAL Conference held in Bangkok, Thailand, 2015, can be downloaded from the Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians website.
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Taylor & Francis partners with ReadCube to enhance discoverability of article and book collections
(12 October 2016) Taylor & Francis, one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly content, today announced its partnership with publishing technology company, ReadCube. Through ReadCube’s Discover service, over four million Taylor & Francis journal articles and book chapters are now indexed and discoverable across ReadCube’s platform. By incorporating popular features from Taylor & Francis…
bibliotheca’s cloudLibrary partners with BDS for enhanced MARC records
(12 October 2016, Manchester, UK) bibliotheca is pleased to announce that cloudLibrary™ is now partnering with Bibliographic Data Services (BDS) to offer libraries more robust MARC records for their digital collection. cloudLibrary readers can now enjoy enhanced descriptions and details while browsing or searching for their next read. While cloudLibrary has always offered basic MARC…
Australia, New Zealand and Singapore library associations to work together to deepen ties
(12 October 2016, Canberra) Australia, New Zealand and Singapore library associations have agreed to work together to promote the library and information sector (LIS) across the three countries and will produce a joint conference in 2018 to be held at the Gold Coast. The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), the Library Association of Singapore…
Ruth’s Rankings News Flash! NTU Ranking: Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities
(12 October 2016) Yet another ranking’s update offers another example of Chinese universities rising as Japanese universities continue to slide. In the first ranking in 2007 (HEEACT), there were nine Chinese universities and none in the top 200. In 2016, there are 53 Chinese universities with eleven in the top 200. During the same time…
Saving electronic records from rot and decay
(10 October 2016) The Getty’s Institutional Archives preserves the history of the entire Getty. This includes archiving the significant electronic records staff have produced over the years. These born-digital files—meaning files that originated in digital form, as opposed to being digitally scanned from papers and photos—document the vast array of work that the Getty conducts…
ASTM Publications joins OpenAthens Access Management Federation
(11 October 2016) OpenAthens has today announced that ASTM International the Pennsylvania, USA-based publisher of international standards, manuals, scholarly publications and e-learning courses has joined the OpenAthens access management federation. This move provides straightforward and secure access to ASTM International’s wide library of over 12,000 standards and related products, trusted globally by individuals and organizations…
IFAR announces major enhancements to its free catalogues raisonnés database
(6 October 2016) The International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR)—the leading organization addressing critical art-world issues regarding attribution, authenticity, and provenance—announced today the launch of new enhancements to its online Catalogues Raisonnés Database. New features and functionality include external links to the complete or partial digitized text of published catalogues raisonnés available on Google Books,…
The Archive of Yogyakarta digitised
(10 October 2016) The Archive of Yogyakarta refers to a collection of some four hundred manuscript documents in Javanese dating from 1772 to 1813, originating from the court of Yogyakarta. A highly important source for the political, economic, social, administrative and legal history of central Java in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the archive…
Outlook report highlights data monetization as the number-one growth opportunity in 2017
(6 October 2016, Burlingame, CA and London, UK) From individualized medical treatment to targeted mobile ad buys, the burgeoning number of applications for machine driven data analytics solutions offer a revenue goldmine for the $1.5 trillion information industry, according to Outsell, Inc. Today, the research and advisory firm released its Information Industry Outlook 2017 report,…