New figures released in October by ITU show that information and communication technology (ICT) uptake continues to grow worldwide, spurred by a steady fall in the price of telephone and broadband Internet services. The new data, released in ITU’s flagship annual report Measuring the Information Society 2012, rank the Republic of Korea as the world’s…
IOP Publishing (IOP) recently announced its entrance into the book market as part of a long-term strategy to expand its support to the research community by offering the broadest range of publishing services to authors and readers. The IOP eBook programme will provide an additional content channel for authors looking to publish with a society…
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) recently received a donation pledge of HKD5 million from Ms. Connie Wong, Managing Director of Wong Sun Hing Limited, in support of the Hong Kong History Project of its Advanced Institute for Contemporary China Studies (ACCS). In recognition of the donor’s generosity, the University held a cheque presentation ceremony today…
IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization, has partnered with The MIT Press, an award-winning publisher affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to offer access to a special selection of computing and engineering eBooks as part of the IEEE Xplore® digital library. The new titles will be available via a new collection delivered in…
Some 13 million volumes of material remain uncatalogued in libraries across the UK, according to a recent report. Hidden Collections, undertaken in partnership with the London Library, is the first of three reports to be published by RLUK as part of its Unique and Distinctive Collections (UDC) strategic strand that will provide a comprehensive review…
“On 10 October 2012, Judge Harold Baer, Jr. of the U.S. Southern District of New York court ruled in our favour on Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. HathiTrust et al. We are pleased that the court has recognized the importance of the work that libraries are performing to preserve the scholarly record and provide…
Gale, part of Cengage Learning has announced that its eBook platform, Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL), was voted Best Overall Database by the readers of Library Journal magazine. The company plans to commemorate the win with an unprecedented giveaway. “We’re so excited to hear that our customers love GVRL so much that we want to…
In 2013 Gramophone Magazine will celebrate its 90th birthday and in anticipation of this milestone every one of its 1,000 issues has been made available digitally with Exact Editions. Every issue is available to all digital and App subscribers on PC, Apple and Android devices. So wherever you are, you can browse through over 1,000…
The International Atomic Energy Agency on 7 September 2012 launched a database of radiation measurements collected in Japan following last year’s accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). The Fukushima Monitoring Database – available to all IAEA member states and the public – provides radiation measurements collected both…
Opportunities for apps developers, designers and other digital innovators will be boosted as the digital portal Europeana opens up its dataset of over 20 million cultural objects for free re-use. The massive dataset is the descriptive information about Europe’s digitised treasures. For the first time, the metadata is released under the Creative Commons CC0 Public…
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