(Geneva, 20 September 2013) WIPO has added China’s national patent collection to the searchable PATENTSCOPE database, pushing the service past the 30 million record mark and increasing it to 34 national and regional patent collections, giving users an unrivalled geographical diversity of fully-searchable data. With the addition of about 3 million documents from China, WIPO’s…
(20 September 2013) The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is currently accepting applications for postdoctoral fellowships. CLIR postdoctoral fellows work on projects that forge and strengthen connections among library collections, educational technologies, and current research. The program offers recent PhD graduates the chance to help develop research tools, resources, and services while exploring new…
That’s what De Gruyter is offering through De Gruyter Select. You now can compile individual articles and content from its webshop into an exclusive book. For example, you can assemble single articles from a journal along with a book chapter into a high-quality, hardcover book and have it printed for your exclusive use. The print…
(19 September 2013) David James, Executive Director of Strategic Innovation at the Royal Society of Chemistry, said: “We are delighted to announce that we have completed the acquisition of MarinLit. “Over the last 25 years John Blunt, Murray Munro and their colleagues at the University of Canterbury have developed the leading marine natural product (MNP)…
(20 September 2013) Photograph conservators, art historians, archivists, library professionals, and anyone with an interest in the care and preservation of photograph collections will find the Getty Conservation Institute’s latest foray into the preservation of photographs an important one. Scientists at the Conservation Institute have just released the first installment of The Atlas of Analytical…
(West Lafayette, Ind., 18 September 2103) Purdue University Libraries will host a symposium on “Data Information Literacy” on Monday (23 September) and Tuesday (24 September). The event’s focus will be on the knowledge and skill sets on data management and curation that graduate students will need to acquire to be successful in their career, and…
(19 September 2013) The Rare & Special eZone is the search and retrieval interface for accessing publicly available digitized materials from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library’s University Archives and Special Collections. Currently this database contains more than 300 images of maps, 100 volumes of books, 700 images of posters, and the…
(17 September 2013) Last year Google launched two improvements to Google Patents: the Prior Art Finder and European Patent Office (EPO) patents. Today sees the addition of documents from four new patent agencies: China, Germany, Canada, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Many of these documents may provide prior art for future patent applications,…
(18 September 2013, Hong Kong) Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development Gregory So today launched a public consultation on the proposed Digital 21 Strategy, which sets out the blueprint for Hong Kong’s information and communications technology, or ICT, development. “With the advent of wireless and multi-platform technologies, cloud computing, the Internet of Things and big…
(18 September 2013) FutureLearn, the first UK-led provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs), is from today offering learners around the world access to free, high quality courses from its internationally renowned university partners. FutureLearn is wholly owned by The Open University. The new website combines the best elements of the social web with The…
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