(1 August 2013) Lecturers, learners and researchers across the UK now have access to over 14,000 additional full text eBooks and thousands of pages of primary source material on their tablets and mobile devices thanks to a new partnership agreement between Jisc Collections and BiblioLabs. The partnership, which is rooted in pushing forward the Digital…
(1 August 2013) IFLA has announced the August 2013 issue of International Preservation News. The issue theme is From Traditional to Digital Written Heritage: An Asian Perspective. Articles include an overview of preservation in the region; manuscripts in India; preservation in Central Asia; and treatment of tsunami ravaged documents. See the complete table of contents…
(New York / Heidelberg, 31 July 2013) Springer has released an Android version of its SpringerLink mobile application, allowing for wider access to its content. The app’s user interface has also been improved, making navigation easier and faster. In January 2012 Springer released its first version of the app on Apple iTunes, which gave scientists, researchers and…
(Columbus, Ohio, 31 July 2013) Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world’s authority for chemical information, announced today that the 2013 Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances in China (IECSC) has been added to its database containing international regulatory information for chemical substances, CHEMLIST®. This information is available on STN®, the choice of patent experts, in SciFinder®,…
Do you wear spectacles and knit your own cardigans? Are books your most favourite thing in the entire world? Do you shush noisy patrons? If you’ve answered yes, meet your doppelganger, the Lego Librarian. If you take her home, don’t forget the lego bricks, after all she’ll need a designer library to shelter in. And…
What makes a library beautiful? Its architecture? Age? Frescoes? Marble floors and coffered ceilings? Manicured gardens? The place where you met your spouse? Jill Harness has rounded up scores of buildings for her personal beautiful libraries list. Sixteen of them are in the Asia-Pacific region. See them here: http://mentalfloss.com/article/51788/62-worlds-most-beautiful-libraries
(30 July 2013) In a first for a New Zealand university, Lincoln University has implemented an open access policy, allowing staff and postgraduate students to make their research outputs including research data, teaching materials and public records, openly and freely accessible on the web. The decision by Lincoln University to make content openly and freely…
(30 July 2013) When the world’s librarians gather in Singapore at IFLA’s World Library and Information Congress in August, Beyond Access will be there to share and learn the latest on how public libraries are contributing to development goals. How are libraries helping make governments more transparent? How are they bringing women into political discussions?…
The Archive of Indian Music (AIM), to be formally launched on 30 July 2013, is an online compilation of vintage gramaphonic records of speeches, songs, plays etc dating as far back as 1902. The archive includes digital version of first recording of Vande Matram clips, of Rabindranath Tagore reciting poetry as also recordings from early…
You might think that microform has gone the way of the dinosaurs now that we have digital storage and search. Far from it. Microform remains the archival medium of choice. Whether it’s theses, architectural drawings, wallpaper or newspapers, microform is your guarantee that your content will still be useable 500 years from now with proper…
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