(10 February 2014) The largest North American data repository, the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), has registered about 20,000 objects via da|ra, the German DOI service provider for social and economic data. Thanks to the cooperation between CrossRef, CNRI and DataCite the change from CrossRef to DataCite services was completed successfully. As…
(7 February 2014) The European Commission has awarded GBP6m to archiving and digital preservation specialists to create E-ARK, a revolutionary method of archiving data that is set to become the gold standard across Europe. The system will ensure that current digital archives, including ‘big data,’ are future-proofed. (Big data is data sets of such a…
(29 January 2014) The 2013 Chinese Library Annual Conference was held in Pudong New Area of Shanghai from 7-9 November. Its theme was “Literary China: Reading leads the Future”. The National Library of China (NLC) designed and built the experience area of Digital Library Promotion Project. The illustrated article is here.
(7 February 2014) The first two free online courses by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have received huge response globally, with more than 27,000 sign ups so far. The two courses are offered on the leading Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform Coursera, which has tie-ups with more than 60 universities around the world to offer…
(8 February 2014) The seminar is co-organized by the Customs and Excise Department and Lingnan University’s Fong Sum Wood Library. In this seminar, the Inspectors from the Customs and Excise Department will introduce ways to protect and enforce intellectual property in Hong Kong. The seminar, in English, is on 20 February. Details are here.
(8 February 2014) LILAC, the Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference has posted its programme on the conference website. The meeting takes place at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, 23-25 April 2014. The programme is here.
(8 February 2014) HKUST library has published issue #91 (February 2014) of its Notes from the Library. Upcoming library exhibitions, the opening of the Ko Pui Shuen Gallery and the Research Assessment Exercise 2014 are among the stories. The latter, RAE2014, is an exercise to assess the research quality of UGC funded institutions. The library…
(6 February 2014) The SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE)—a joint initiative of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)—today released the SHARE Notification System Project Plan (PDF). The plan details the first in a series of activities to be undertaken by…
(Ann Arbor, MI, 6 February 2014) – ProQuest® Statistical Abstract of the United States is the winner of the 2014 SIIA CODiE Content Award for Best General Reference Service. Representing the information industry’s best products and technologies, this solution is a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.…
(7 February 2014) The University of Sydney has a new Research Data Management Policy. It includes an electronic lab notebooks service, a research data store and data management guidelines. The Research Data Management policy sets out the responsibilities of the University, Faculty representatives and individual researchers with regard to the management, storage, retention and ownership of…
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