(10 September 2013) LIANZA has posted a summary on its website of the feedback it received on its Strategic Plan. The themes include leadership, collaboration, governance and advocacy. Read more here.
(6 September 2103) Judge Denise Cote has signed a court that requires Apple to modify its existing agreements with the five major publishers with which it conspired – Hachette Book Group (USA), HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C., Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC, which does business as Macmillan, Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Simon & Schuster Inc. – to allow…
(Washington, 20 June 2013) Despite research on the importance of reading with children from a young age, few parents in the United States with kids age eight and younger are engaged in nightly reading, according to a new survey from Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) and Macy’s. The survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, finds that only…
(5 September 2013, Boston, Oxford) Credo has 19 new and updated Subject and Publisher Collections, adding to the more than 80 collections currently available for perpetual purchase or subscription. Credo’s new collections help librarians grow their reference shelves through their Literati or Credo Online Reference Service solutions. The newly released collections include: Intelecom Intelligent Telecommunications…
(6 September 2013) A number of participants in the Research Information Literacy and Digital Scholarship project, RILADS, have had their submissions published online giving a clear picture of how they addressed the RIDLS criteria used in the project. See them here.
(4 September 2013) Read theInternational Council for Scientific and Technical Information, ICSTI’s submission to the 25 September ICSU Meeting in Paris, the aim of which is to define ICSU’s policies on open access to information and data, and the use of metrics as incentives and performance measures. Submission here.
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(4 September 2013) ARL invites libraries to join the global assessment community of LibQUAL+ by registering for the 2014 LibQUAL+ survey. LibQUAL+ is a suite of services that libraries use to solicit, track, understand, and act upon users’ opinions of service quality. The program’s centerpiece is a rigorously tested web survey paired with training that…
(4 September 2013) The Digital Public Library of America now offers 1.7 million metadata records associated with almost 3.5 million of HathiTrust’s freely available books, journals, government documents and more, on dp.la and through the DPLA application programming interface (API). This brings the DPLA’s offerings to 4.5 million records. Among the HathiTrust records are tens of thousands…
(Beijing, China, 28 August 2013) – Wolters Kluwer Health will be working with the People’s Health Publishing House (PMPH), the largest medical publisher in China, to expand its domestic and foreign healthcare publishing market. Under the MOU, Wolters Kluwer Health and PMPH will deepen and expand their collaboration. While PMPH will continue to translate Wolters…
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