(6 May 2014) Discussions by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) broke down in the early hours of Saturday morning 3 May, after the European Union (EU) attempted to block future discussion of copyright laws to aid libraries and archives fulfill their missions in the digital environment.…
(3 May 2014) The original 1862 manuscript of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, a French national treasure, is leaving Europe for the first time to be exhibited exclusively at the State Library of Victoria, Australia, Minister for the Arts Heidi Victoria announced today. The 945 page volume will leave the Bibliothèque nationale de France to be…
(2 May 2014) Columbus, Ohio, has been chosen as the site for the 2016 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress, reports the ARL website. More than 4,000 people from 120 countries are expected to attend the event, which will be held August 11–18, 2016, at the Greater Columbus…
(3 May 2014) UPT. Perpustakaan Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia sedang mengembangkan layanan koleksi akses kecepatan untuk mahasiswa dan fakultas. Perpustakaan ini sekarang menyediakan fasilitas pencarian terbaru dengan mengintegrasikan OPAC dan Repositori Akses Terbuka dengan menggunakan kecanggihan teknologi Google. Fasilitas ini menyelesaikan masalah penurunan kecepatan pencarian koleksi dari berbagai perpustakaan di dunia yang sudah sampai mencapai…
(3 May 2014) The Central Library of Syiah Kuala University in Indonesia’s Aceh province is developing its open access service for students and faculty. In particular, the library is facilitating searching by integrating its opac and repository using the power of Google technology. This solved a pressing problem of declining search performance as the number…
(2 May 2014) In May 2014, CrossRef plans to launch its new text and data mining service. After a successful pilot under the name Prospect, CrossRef’s support for publishers to simplify text and data mining access for researchers involves two components: A CrossRef API researchers can use to access the full text of content identified…
(30 April 2014, Ann Arbor, MI) Korean Education and Research Information Service (KERIS), a consortium with 300 members, expands its holdings of scholarly periodicals from ProQuest. Periodicals Archive Online connects researchers to a rich digital archive of leading historical periodicals, spanning more than two centuries of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. The ability…
(1 May 2014) From today it is possible to reproduce digital content from the NDL website indicated as copyright-expired, without any submission procedure. For more details, please refer to NDL’s English language site policy. Read the announcement here.
(1 May 2014) University of Canberra students who need help with referencing, need look no further than the colourful shirted staff positioned in the university library. In addition to help with referencing, these Academic Skills Rovers will also provide their ‘academic first aid’ to students needing help with writing and answering assignment questions. Read the…
(1 May 2014) IHS Inc. today announced that the recently launched IHS Knowledge Collections™ of essential engineering and technical reference content now offer access to more than 100 million documents, comprising a unique collection of critical industry and discipline knowledge for engineers, scientists and other technical professionals. Further details here.
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