(14 February 2014) The National Diet Library (NDL) of Japan uses the results of assessment, analysis, and evaluation of its own activities (services and operations) into future planning and activities. This Activity Performance Evaluation system is intended to help achieve the high-end mission and objectives advocated by the NDL. Also, we have adopted a Plan-Do-Check-Act…
(13 February 2014, modified 14 February 2014) The Australian Law Reform Commission, ALRC, was asked to consider whether the current exceptions and statutory licences in the Copyright Act are adequate and appropriate in the digital era. The Report, tabled on 13 February 2014, is the result of an 18 month Inquiry during which the ALRC produced…
On 14 February approximately 4,000 books, which had previously been provided only inside the National Diet Library, became available on the internet after copyright clearance. Newly added materials can be searched and read in the Digital Library from the Meiji Era and the National Diet Library Digital Collections. As a result, the total number of…
(13 February 2014) The Academic and Research Libraries Section (ARL), with generous sponsorship by ExLibris and Sage, is offering three Attendance Grants for the IFLA Congress in Lyon 2014 to an information professional from each of these regions: • Africa • Latin America • Asia/Pacific region Each grant covers the registration fee of Euro 455…
Information Management Officer (Digital Continuity) Location: United Nations, New York Salary: P4 (between 67,611 and 117,425 USD) Job type: Full time, continuing Closing Date:60 days from original announcement This position is located in Department of Management (DM), Office of Central Support Services (OCSS), Archives and Records Management Section. The Information Management Officer will report to…
(Stanford, CA & London, UK, 13 February 2014) HighWire Press and Altmetric LLP are pleased to announce the completion of an agreement to offer altmetrics integration to publications hosted on the HighWire Open Platform. This new agreement will enable leading publications on HighWire to join prestigious publishers such as the National Academy of Sciences and…
On 27 January 2014, the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS, Japan) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa, Switzerland) signed a 5-year collaborative agreement on co-publishing the open access journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM, ISSN 1468-6996). Both NIMS and Empa are the leading materials science research institutes…
(San Francisco, 11 February 2014) PeerJ (the award winning open access publisher of both PeerJ PrePrints and PeerJ) is pleased to announce that with the addition of Stanford University, twenty universities have now signed up to provide PeerJ Publication Plans to their faculty. Authors from these institutions will have their publication plans automatically paid for…
Australian Volunteers for International Development is looking for a librarian for the public library of Luang Prabang, Laos, a UNESCO World Heritage town. The AVID volunteer will conduct a needs analysis and work with library staff to develop the action plan which will identify improvements to current operations, strategies to enhance services and steps to…
The Roger K. Summit Scholarship, awarded annually by ProQuest, was established to honor Dr. Roger K. Summit, the founder of Dialog, a ProQuest business, for his outstanding contributions to the field of information science. The scholarship is open to all LIS students worldwide. The award is the equivalent of US USD5,000 and is presented at…
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