(8 December 2014) Today marks a milestone for Trove as it digitises its 15 millionth newspaper article. Titled For King and Country, the article first appeared in the December 8, 1917 edition of The St George Call, which was published weekly in Sydney’s Kogarah district from 1914 to 1924. NSLA launched the Australian Newspaper Digitisation…
(3 December 2014) As part of the Europeana Newspapers project, The European Library developed a historic newspapers browser that enables users to perform full text searches in millions of historic newspaper pages. “For the first time in history we have the opportunity to do transnational comparative research on the basis of big data!“ says Toine Pieters, digital humanities…
(9 December 2014) The National Library of the Philippines (NLP) in cooperation with the Association of Librarians in Public Sector, Inc. (ALPS, Inc.) and Public Librarians Association of Ilocos Norte (PLAIN) will hold its National Conference of Public Librarians on March 11-13, 2015 at the Plaza del Norte Hotel and Convention Center, Barangay 41, Balacad, Laoag City, Ilocos Norte. The theme of the activity…
(5 Dec 2014) The Knowledge Quarter, a partnership of 35 academic, cultural, research, scientific and media organisations based in Kings Cross, Euston and Bloomsbury, has just been launched at the British Library in London. The Knowledge Quarter is a consortium of partner organisations with one thing in common – all are actively engaged in advancing and disseminating knowledge.…
(4 December 2014, Philadelphia) The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, is collaborating with Times Higher Education to power the latter’s BRICS and Emerging Economies Rankings. Thomson Reuters InCitesTM data, the world’s leading research evaluation platform and home to Global Institutional Profiles, is the benchmarking engine behind this Times Higher Education ranking. Thomson…
(4 December 2014, Adelaide, Australia) The State Library of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia has adopted a suite of Ex Libris solutions—comprised of the Alma® library management solution, the Primo® discovery and delivery solution, and the Rosetta digital asset management and preservation system—and Axiell Group’s Adlib Archive to manage its archival collections. Together, these…
(4 December 2014) The HPAD was created by CINDAS LLC to address the needs of the oil/gas, chemical processing, power generation and transportation industries. CINDAS was asked by many engineers in industries other than aerospace to produce a materials properties database analogous to the ASMD, in format, but more focused on the specific needs of…
(4 December 2014) OASPA has introduced “Getting the credit,” a new set of proposed principles and basic use cases for open-access publishers to use, test, and expand on in order to support scholars. OASPA members are invited to help test and expand on this important new set of use cases and principles for the attribution…
(5 December 2014) The Li Ka Shing Library at the Singapore Management University is hosting this seminar on 29 January 2015 with the theme We are teaching but are they learning? The focus is on the effectiveness and impact of information literacy instruction. This Information Literacy Seminar will be facilitated and moderated by Judith Peacock,…
(3 December 2014) Name ambiguity is a serious issue for Chinese researchers. Not only do many share a common surname, those researchers who publish in English-language journals have to contend with transliteration issues and multiple versions of their name being associated with their research activities. Similarly, researchers who publish in Chinese have a difficult time…
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