Retraction Watch Database
(27 October 2018) Retraction Watch now has a unified database of retracted papers. JURN has the announcement. What you need to know.
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PhD theses – drawing attention to the often overlooked articles in open access repositories
(27 October 2018) Earlier this Open Access Week, university library staff throughout the UK celebrated #ThesisThursday, a day of focused attention on the less talked-about articles in open access repositories, PhD theses. Camilla Griffiths and Nancy Graham describe the work the LSE Library has led to digitise the theses of the School’s doctoral alumni, outlining…
Watch: Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (2018)
(27 October 2018) Paywall: The Business of Scholarship, produced and directed by Jason Schmitt, is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science. It is free to stream and download, and is licensed under the CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons designation. Universities interested in arranging a screening of the…
Treasuring Trove: Why Australia’s digital heritage platform is so special
(26 October 2018) Australians have a truly unique resource in the National Library’s Trove, and it needs to be protected The National Library of Australia’s Trove brings together freely available content from libraries, museums and archives, supporting online discovery of the country’s documentary heritage. Trove is also that rare beast: a digital heritage platform with…
Library of Congress launches a new transcription crowdsourcing tool
(26 October 2018) The Library of Congress launched this week a new crowdsourcing tool that enables the transcription of digitised documents from their historic collections. This tool will improve the services provided by the library and the usability of their data making the documents more readable and searchable. The application can be accessed at crowd.loc.gov,…
ACRL releases Transforming Libraries to Serve Graduate Students
(25 October 2018, Chicago) The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces the publication of Transforming Libraries to Serve Graduate Students, edited by Crystal Renfro and Cheryl Stiles. The book is a practical atlas of how librarians around the world are serving the dynamic academics that are today’s graduate students. In four sections—One Size…
Invest in InfoSci-Journals and Support the Open Access Movement
From IGI Global: Invest in InfoSci-Journals and Support the Open Access Movement IGI Global strives to ensure that libraries worldwide can easily access our content under the most affordable and convenient model. Thus, all of our publications are available in print, electronic, and are hosted on our InfoSci® platform, which powers the InfoSci-Journals database, a…
An Altmetric success story
(28 September 2018) A recent paper in Philosophical Transactions B looking at the impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration has achieved The Royal Society’s highest Altmetric score to date in a very short time. Here we look at the background to this paper and ask what we learn from this. The study by…
Webinar recording—SHARE-ing Omeka in the Web of Digital Scholarship
(24 October 2018) SHARE offered a webinar on October 4, 2018, describing practical workflows for scraping Omeka sites in order to curate metadata for discoverability. The presenters were Michael Roth, Project Intern; Heather Froehlich, Literary Informatics Librarian; and Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Head of Digital Scholarship and Data Services, Pennsylvania State University Libraries This one-hour webinar…
DataONE implements new usage and citation metrics to make your data count
(24 October 2018) Publications have long maintained a citation standard for research papers, ensuring credit for cited work and ideas. Tracking use of data collections, however, has remained a challenge. DataONE shares its latest effort in overcoming this barrier and in demonstrating data reuse with new data usage and citation metrics. The full story is…
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