(9 June 2014) The Open and Shut? blog curated by Richard Poynder interviews S. Arunachalam on what is happening with open access in India, and the form that it is taking. Read the interview here.
(10 June 2014) La Trobe University’s Academic Referencing Tool gives detailed examples for many of the prescribed styles of referencing used at the university including AGLC, APA 6, Harvard (AGPS) and Footnoting (Oxford). It was created for La Trobe students, by La Trobe librarians, in consultation with La Trobe academic staff. The tool includes examples of in-text…
(9 June 2014, Adelaide, Australia, and Christchurch, New Zealand) Ex Libris® Group and Lincoln University are pleased to announce that the University has opted for the Ex Libris Alma library management service and the Primo® discovery and delivery solution. Deployed in the cloud, Alma and Primo will provide the University’s students and academic staff with…
Paper summarizes community input to development of potential standards and recommended practices for research assessment metrics (9 June 2014) The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released a draft white paper summarizing Phase I of its Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Project for public comment. The Initiative was launched in July 2013, with a grant from…
(3 June 2014) ‘Library at The Dock’, a new library and community centre by Clare Design and Hayball in the heart of Docklands, Melbourne, officially opened on Saturday, marking the nation’s first public building to be made from cross laminated timber (CLT). Located on the waterfront of the Victoria Harbour, this method of construction –…
(5 June 2014) On the 1st June 2014, new amendments to the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 came into force. Hailed by the library community as a breakthrough in copyright law reform, the changes will enable UK librarians in the cultural heritage and educational sectors to provide reasonable access to important works from…
(5 June 2014) According to EU Advocate General Jääskinen, a Member State may authorise libraries to digitise, without the consent of the rightholders, books they hold in their collection so as to make them available at electronic reading points. While the Copyright Directive does not allow Member States to authorise users to save a book…
(6 June 2014) This week The British Library Big Data Experiment began, a collaboration between the British Library Digital Research team, UCL Computer Science, and UCL Centre for Digital Humanities that will experiment with approaches to opening up the digital collections at the British Library, particularly to benefit those undertaking research in the arts and…
(6 June 2014) The Australian National University Archives has launched a new database which makes national treasures of business, unions and The University available online for the first time. National Archives of Australia Director-General David Fricker launched the new ANU Archives database, which includes historic documents from Australia’s colonial history. Among the treasures are copies…
(June 2014) Fear and uncertainty about copyright law often plagues educators and sometimes prevents creative teaching. This online course from Duke University with Coursera is a professional development opportunity designed to provide a basic introduction to US copyright law and to empower teachers and librarians at all grade levels. Course participants will discover that the…
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