edX Learning Platform to be open source and available on 1 June 2013 (Cambridge, MA and Stanford, CA – 3 April 2013) – Stanford University and edX, the not-for-profit online learning enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), today announced their collaboration to advance the development of edX’s open source…
(WARRENDALE, Pa., 4 April 2013) -Packed with more than 3,100 technical papers, 60 technical standards and six e-Books, SAE International launches the “SAE Global Technology Library-Alternative Fuels.” This unique, searchable, online database enables mobility engineering professionals to stay up-to-date and compete in a rapidly changing environment by accessing the most timely, relevant information related to…
(Baltimore, MD & Stanford, CA, 3 April 2013) The Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) has reached an agreement with Stanford University’s HighWire Press to transition to the HighWire Open Platform as the new digital hosting and delivery platform for Project MUSE. Over the past year, JHUP and its digital publishing unit Project MUSE have conducted…
The Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC), Singapore, 25-30 May, brings together content creators and producers with parents, teachers, librarians, and anyone interested in quality Asian content for children. With a mix of professional conferences, masterclasses and workshops, rights fair and media mart, and public events, AFCC is a unique and popular event right here…
(2 April 2013) De Gruyter, the academic publisher based in Berlin, will be offering 100 titles from its e-dition series at the crowdfunding platform Unglue.it. Each individual title that raises USD2,100 at the site will be made available worldwide as open-access content. Unglue.it is making eBooks free and universally accessible to libraries and book lovers…
(New York / Heidelberg , 28 March 2013) Springer and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) will collaborate to include thousands of new experimental procedures for chemical reactions reported in Springer journals in the CAS databases. This collaboration will increase the visibility of articles with experimental procedures published in 165 Springer chemistry journals from 1985 to the present. The…
Recommendations ensure long-term online accessibility to scholarly journals even after title and publisher changes (Baltimore, MD, 27 March 2013) The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of a new Recommended Practice: PIE-J: Presentation & Identification of E-Journals (NISO RP-16-2013). This Recommended Practice was developed to provide guidance on the presentation of eJournals—particularly…
(2 April 2013) The Council on East Asian Libraries, CEAL, has announced that Taiwan’s National Central Library will conduct an International Workshop for Professional Librarians between 14-19 October 2013. This 6-days workshop, Preservation and Innovation of Special Collections and Archives will be open to East Asian professional librarians of different countries. Links to the registration form…
If you are interested in statistics about libraries look no further than ARL which has recently published statistics about academic law and health libraries. Read the announcements here: http://www.arl.org/index.shtml The ARL Statistics Collection provides online access to the annual publications ARL Statistics, ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics, and ARL Academic Law Library Statistics that…
Yang Menulis examines the largely invisible and multiple role of the Malay scribes and the value of their work in disseminating and preserving Malay culture via handwritten texts. This joint project between the Malay Heritage Centre and Singapore’s National Library Board is travelling around Singapore 14 May to 11 August. More here: http://edm.nlb.gov.sg/12all/index.php?action=message&l=4&c=983&m=549&s=66349174475d14a464a7793e56913e13
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