2016 – Page 22

ACRL releases Bridging Worlds: Emerging Models and Practices of U.S. Academic Libraries Around the Globe

LibrariesSeptember 13, 2016

(12 September 2016, Chicago) The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces the publication of Bridging Worlds: Emerging Models and Practices of U.S. Academic Libraries Around the Globe. Edited by Raymond Pun, Scott Collard, and Justin Parrott, the book provides insight into international academic libraries and provides best practices and practical leadership strategies. Over…

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European court says linking to illegal content is copyright infringement

(8 September 2016) Greg Sterling writes that in a decision that is already controversial, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled in favor of copyright owners and against hyperlinks. The CJEU decision, though qualified, raises the strong possibility that publishers linking to infringing third party sites will also be liable for…

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IGI Global announces mobile-friendly platform update

Publishers, TechnologySeptember 11, 2016

(9 September 2016) IGI Global has proudly released their mobile-friendly platform that allows users the ability to access over 3,400 e-books, 164+ e-journals, and 100+ streaming video lectures. The updated features of the platform include a cleaner and more attractive layout and design, a streamlined mobile user experience allowing the site to be accessed on…

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ASA task force issues report on evaluating public communication in tenure and promotion

UncategorizedSeptember 10, 2016

(22 August 2016, Washington, DC) Increasingly, social scientists use multiple forms of communication to engage broader audiences with their research and contribute to solutions of the pressing problems of our time. Yet, in academia, it is unclear whether these efforts to communicate with the public should count when colleges and universities are evaluating scholars. To…

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EMBO and Wiley launch the SmartFigures Lab

Data, PublishersSeptember 10, 2016

(9 September 2016, Heidelberg, Germany) EMBO and John Wiley and Sons, Inc. announced today the launch of the ‘SmartFigures Lab’, a prototype online publishing website with enhanced data presentation capabilities. The site results from the integration of SmartFigures, an open source application of the EMBO SourceData platform, with Wiley’s Content Enrichment Framework and research &…

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Harbin primary school wins ‘China’s most beautiful school library’ award

Asia Pacific, LibrariesSeptember 10, 2016

(9 September 2016) Jingwei Primary School in Harbin, Heilongjiang province has won a competition to find the most beautiful school library in China, Harbin Daily reported. The school was selected from 76 institutions from across the country that entered the contest run by the China Library Society. Its large collection of 60,000 books helped it…

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China to build Japanese war trial database

Asia Pacific, DatabasesSeptember 10, 2016

(8 September 2016) A Chinese university has announced an ambitious plan to build the largest database in Asia on the Japanese war criminal trials that followed World War II. Shanghai Jiaotong University, together with the National Library of China and The Second Historical Archives of China, will collect dossiers on Japanese war criminals excluding the…

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figshare partners with the Royal Society to increase research data discoverability

Data, eBooks, Publishers, ToolsSeptember 10, 2016

(7 September 2016) figshare has announced a partnership with Royal Society to showcase the data from eleven of their publications. Aggregated under one URL rs.figshare.com, each journal will also have its own sub portal. These new portals will increase the discoverability of their data and give them a wider oversight of what is referenced in their journals. The Royal Society is a…

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OpenAIRE survey on attitudes to open peer review

(9 September 2016) OpenAIRE invites you to participate in a brief survey on attitudes to Open Peer Review: https://www.soscisurvey.de/OPR/ Your anonymous answers will be made available to the research and publishing communities to inform future innovations in peer review. The survey takes around 15-20 minutes to complete and will remain open until Friday 7th October. The…

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The Open Library Foundation

Libraries, Open AccessSeptember 10, 2016

(9 September 2016, Boston) The Open Library Foundation has been established to promote open source projects for libraries and to foster and support contribution, distribution, and sustainability of the benefits of these projects. The foundation provides the infrastructure for librarians, developers, designers, service providers, and vendors to collaborate with innovative open source technologies and develop…

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