(15 May 2014) Ariana Hussain is an American Muslim librarian. Her father is Indonesian and her birth mother is Okinawan. She grew up in northern California where she was never perceived as Asian. Then came 7/11 and her life changed. The APALA website has Ariana’s story.
(13 May 2014) Elsevier today announced the launch of an optimized mobile version of ScienceDirect, its leading full-text scientific database. The updated mobile version of ScienceDirect now allows researchers to read journal articles on mobile devices through a specifically designed interface offering high readability and a streamlined page layout. Users of ScienceDirect that access journal…
(13 May 2014) OverDrive has announced an alliance with top Japanese publisher aggregator MediaDo which will enable distribution of popular and bestselling Japanese content, including manga and adult fiction, through the OverDrive network of libraries and schools worldwide. In addition, the new venture extends the OverDrive platform and catalog of more than 1 million eBook…
(13 May 2014) A new global university ranking, set up with EUR2 million in funding from the European Union, is launched today. U-Multirank, which assesses the performance of more than 850 higher education institutions worldwide, breaks new ground by producing multi-dimensional listings rating universities on a much wider range of factors than existing international rankings.…
(19 May 2014) the EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project started in December 2013. Progress to date includes: Access at University of Yangon and the University of Mandalay to over 20 commercial e-resources (including over 10,000 full text journals and more than 130,000 full text eBooks); and an extensive programme of training for librarians has begun, and…
(14 May 2014) The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled in favour of a Spanish gentlemen who objected to articles containing his name being retrieved by search engines. He requested the owner of the web pages and Google to have the web pages removed or altered. The detailed but easy to read…
(12 May 2014) Nature Publishing Group (NPG) with Nanyang Technological University (NTU) today announce a new online-only open-access journal, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. Leading NTU’s effort in this new initiative is its Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), a national research institute that aims to harness the powers of micro-organisms for environmental and…
ISSNを確認するには ISSN国際センターでは、登録されたISSNの書誌データをデータベース化し、オンライン上でISSN Portal（http://portal.issn.org/）として提供しています。ISSN Portalは有料登録制のため、利用登録された場合を除きご覧頂くことはできませんが、日本国内で発行された出版物については、オンラインジャーナルを除き、NDL-OPAC（国立国会図書館蔵書検索・申込システム）に掲載の書誌データで、ISSNを確認していただくことが可能です。 More here.
(12 May 2014, Geneva) The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has unveiled a one-of-a-kind image-search function for its Global Brand Database, adding a new feature that allows users to upload an image to search for visually similar trademark and other brand-information records from among the millions of images in the collection. The image-search functionality, which…
(8 May 2014, Toronto) Kobo, a global leader in eReading, today announced it will provide Sony’s Reader™ and Sony’s Xperia™ tablet and smartphone users in Australia as well as the UK, Germany and Austria with access to its comprehensive digital reading ecosystem, which includes a catalogue of more than 4 million eBooks, top-ranking eReading apps, and…
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