(24 June 2015, Boston, Oxford) Credo has today shared the findings of two extensive surveys. The first surveyed 2,600 students on their thoughts and attitudes toward research, and the second questioned nearly 500 faculty members from American colleges and universities with regard to their students’ research skills, as well as information literacy instruction at their…
(23 June 2015) goodEreader reports that Australia has just passed a new law that would require internet service providers to block websites that show pirated material, such as eBooks. The websites are not up to the internet companies, instead publishers and rights holders have to make a case to the Federal government and demand sites…
(19 June 2015) Australia’s only copy of the world’s largest atlas – measuring a mammoth 1.8 x 2.7 metres open – is on public display in the State Library’s Mitchell Library Reading Room for the next four weeks. The Earth Platinum is a spectacular new addition to the State Library of NSW’s rich collections, which…
(16 June 2015) The State Library of Queensland hosted a series of NSLA meetings in May. The Heritage Collections Forum ran over two days with around thirty delegates from NSLA libraries taking part in workshops and presentation sessions. Subjects under discussion included: how to improve digitisation workflows for large collections the importance of metadata for…
(23 June 2015, Beijing, China) Ex Libris® Group, a leading provider of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce that the metadata of eJournals, dissertations, conference papers, and gazetteers hosted by Wanfang Data will be indexed in the Ex Libris Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic resources. As a result, this extensive content from Wanfang…
(23 June 2015, Farmington Hills, Mich) Providing students, faculty and researchers a unique glimpse into the often hidden aspects of humankind’s conquest of the skies, Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, today launched Evolution of Flight, 1784-1991, a new digital archive in its Smithsonian Collections Online series. The archive brings together images, diaries, correspondence, scrapbooks,…
(23 June 2015) Taylor & Francis Group has acquired Maney Publishing. Maney’s high-quality portfolio consists of scholarly journals in materials science and engineering, the humanities and social sciences, and health sciences. Maney’s book series will also be joining Taylor & Francis Group. Taylor & Francis Group is now working to ensure a smooth transition for…
(23 June 2015, Farmington Hills) In the cooperative spirit of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), four leading academic content providers — Credo; Gale, a part of Cengage Learning; IEEE; and SAGE – today, publically disclose their support of the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI). In NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery (RP-19-2014), content…
(23 June 2015) Marie Lebert provides a timelime showing the development of open access from from 1665 to 2015. 1665 saw the publication of the first journals. But open access as we know it started in 1991 with the development of arXiv. The chronology is here.
(22 June 2015) Libgen, the largest online repository of free books and academic articles, has pretty much vanished from the internet. Earlier this month the site’s operators were sued by academic publishing company Elsevier, who asked a New York federal court for a preliminary injunction hoping to keep the site down for good. Most of…
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