(April 2015) The fourth meeting of the China-Japan-Korea Digital Library Initiative (CJKDLI) was held on 9 to 10 December 2014, in Beijing, China. The CJKDLI is a collaborative project between the National Library of China (NLC), the National Diet Library (NDL) and the National Library of Korea (NLK), aiming at integrated search and use of…
(21 April 2015) BMJ, one of the world’s leading medical knowledge providers, today launches BMJ Outcomes – an exciting new online global network to advance the science and practice of outcome measurement to drive value and quality in healthcare. BMJ Outcomes will bring together healthcare organisations from around the world that are doing groundbreaking work…
(21 April 2015) Open Knowledge today announced plans to develop OpenTrials, an open, online database of information about the world’s clinical research trials funded by The Laura and John Arnold Foundation. The project, which is designed to increase transparency and improve access to research, will be directed by Dr. Ben Goldacre, an internationally known leader…
(20 April 2015) The World Health Organization has announced that its Global Medicines Safety Database is now open to the general public. The database named VigiAccess can now be accessed on any computer or smartphone in the world. IP Watch has the story.
(7 April 2015) Rick Anderson writes that a week or so ago, a monumental thing happened: the number of public-domain books in the HathiTrust digital repository topped 5 million. And since no one (including HathiTrust, so far) seems to be making a very big deal about this, it seems like a good moment both to…
(3 March 2015) Today the collections of fourteen Australian cultural institutions became available online to audiences across Australia and the world with the launch of Google Cultural Institute Australia. Google Cultural Institute was launched in 2011 and today partners with more than 600 organisations in more than 60 countries. Through this project more than 60,000 of…
(22 March 2015) Contrary to what one might expect, not all the items in open access repositories are publicly available. Estimates of the percentage of the content in repositories that is not in fact open access tend to range from around 40% to 60%. This will include bibliographic records containing only metadata, plus full-text documents…
(23 March 2015) University of Technology, Sydney, is offering information services to its alumni. Two memberships, one for AUD 5.00 providing access to the UTS library and one for AUD 75.00 yearly including access to databases are offered. The databases include Annual Reviews Online, AustLit and JSTOR. The announcement is here.
(17 March 2015) Effective March 2015, CAS coverage of regulated chemicals in NCITM Global, in CHEMLIST®, on STN® and in SciFinder® has been enhanced with regulatory information from two additional sources: More than 31,000 substances from the Scheduled Chemical Database provided by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) More than 5,800 substances…
(17 March 2015) IEEE announces a partnership with the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers® (SMPTE), the worldwide leader in motion-imaging standards and education for the communications, media, entertainment, and technology industries. With this partnership, IEEE will host the SMPTE Digital Library within the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The SMPTE Digital Library includes the…
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