(25 Aug 2020) Japan Search is a national platform for aggregating the metadata of digital resources from various fields and providing an integrated search service, as well as an API, to promote the use of content. As of August 25, Japan Search collects over 21 million metadata. Since 2017, the National Diet Library has been…
(18 Aug 2020) Boston’s Museum of Science and a top Harvard University health expert have teamed up to make it easier for anyone anywhere in the world to get answers to their burning questions about the coronavirus pandemic. The interactive exhibit, featuring Dr. Ashish Jha and using StoryFile’s conversational video artificial intelligence technology, was unveiled…
(24 Aug 2020) The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and the American Library Association (ALA) are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 Library Interior Design Awards. This biennial competition honors excellence in library interior design and promotes examples of extraordinary design reflected through innovative concepts. “When libraries are designed in novel and…
(21 Aug 2020) The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and EDUCAUSE published today a report on two invitational workshops with experts in learning and research applications of emerging technologies. The workshops, held this spring, focused on identifying likely futures for partnerships with libraries. Future Themes and Forecasts for Research Libraries…
(14 Aug 2020) The Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) research database, Inspec, will now include content from J-STAGE, Japan’s largest database for reviewed academic papers. The partnership brings 53 journals from across Inspec’s coverage areas spanning: mechanical and production engineering; computers and control; electrical engineering and electronics; and physics. The range of titles…
(13 Aug 2020) IOP Publishing has joined Research4Life, a multi-organisation partnership aiming to reduce the knowledge gap between high-income and low- and middle-income countries by making scholarly, professional and research information more accessible. It means that IOPP’s journals – which span more than 40 subject areas reaching beyond physics and into materials science, biosciences, environmental…
(19 Aug 2020) Clinicians and researchers around the world are racing to collect data in order to better understand COVID-19 — including risk factors for severe cases, treatment strategies and the viability of various vaccines. But a vital element missing has been a wide-scale database for sharing information as research progresses. Researchers at the USC…
(20 Aug 2020) From Aaron Tay’s Musings about librarianship: “While allowing users to gain access to paywalled academic content aka delivery services is often seen to be less sexy than discovery it is still an important part of the researcher workflow that is worth looking at. In particular, I will argue that in the past…
(19 Aug 2020) Ulrich Herb compares Project DEAL’s agreements between Wiley, Springer Nature, and Elsevier: “Christian Gutknecht published an exciting posting on the Swiss EUR 57 million Elsevier deal in which he outlines the transformative Open Access agreement between Elsevier and swissuniversities. Since Germany has been trying for years to reach such a contract with…
(19 Aug 2020) A new collection of case law from superior courts in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia is now available on vLex Justis, an AI-powered research platform with unique features designed to extract the key information from a case. This powerful combination of content and technology will enable legal professionals to better support their…