(February 2015) This role is a rare and exciting opportunity to work at the cutting edge of repository management and help ensure the British Library can preserve its digital collections far into the future. This is a fixed term post for two years, based at Boston Spa. Closing date is 19 February 2015. A lot…
(5 February 2015) The COAR Roadmap: Future Directions for Repository Interoperability has been published. The roadmap identifies important trends and their associated action points for the repository community and will assist COAR in identifying priority interoperability areas in the future. The preparation of the roadmap was spearheaded by Friedrich Summann from Bielefeld University in Germany, with support from…
(5 February 2015) The seminar, What should we do for expanding “Green Contents?” takes place 9 March 2015 from 1pm at the National Institute of Informatics. Details are here.
(2 February 2015) The Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum takes place 13 February 2015 at the National Library of Australia, Canberra. Topics include FAIR, HathiTrust, open access and more. If you’re not attending, Internet NZ is sponsoring a live stream of the program. For lots more detail visit the ADA blog here.
(5 February 2015, Alexandria, VA) Alexander Street Press has partnered with CBS News to release 60 MINUTES, 1997–2014, an exclusive database from one of the most successful programs in American television history. The forthcoming online resource was announced this week at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Chicago with a video introduction from Emmy-winning 60 MINUTES…
(4 February 2015) Altmetric has reported in its blog that it has added Wikipedia to sources it tracks. Mentions of articles in Wikipedia will be reflected in a new ‘Wikipeda’ tab on the Altmetrics details page. To find out how it works visit the illustrated blog post here.
(4 February 2015) The Digital Preservation Coalition is offering two fully funded scholarships to attend the upcoming March 2015 instance of ULCC’s intermediate level Digital Preservation Training Programme – The Practice of Digital Preservation at Senate House, University of London, London. The Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) is designed for all those working in institutional…
(3 February 2015, Beijing) The inaugural and newly-released 2015 Best Chinese University Ranking report, based on ShanghaiRanking Consultancy (SRC)‘s evaluation, is anchored on Elsevier’s Scopus research database and powered by metrics from SciVal analytics – both part of the Elsevier Research Intelligence portfolio. The report provides a detailed look at key research performance indicators of…
(4 February 2015) Thad McIlroy looks at what mobile technology means for publishers. Along the way he discovers that the number of smartphones has left PCs way behind. He also looks at Apple vs. Android, and tablets whose story is altogether different. Publishing Perspectives has the illustrated article.
(2 February 2015) The new MORE (Maney Online Research E-journal) Digital Archives include the back-file content of 80 journals and offer instant online access to a wealth of significant, historical research and scholarly excellence, much of which has been published by academic and professional societies. Now available as a one-off purchase to higher education institutions,…
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