(13 October 2016) IGI Global article “Adaptation and Localization: Metadata Research and Development for Chinese Digital Resources” offered for free access. Summary: As library users, we often fail to realize the importance of the specialized players and tools working behind the scenes. An integral unit in the knowledge-sharing digitized world, metadata is one of these…
(12 October 2016, Manchester, UK) bibliotheca is pleased to announce that cloudLibrary™ is now partnering with Bibliographic Data Services (BDS) to offer libraries more robust MARC records for their digital collection. cloudLibrary readers can now enjoy enhanced descriptions and details while browsing or searching for their next read. While cloudLibrary has always offered basic MARC…
(12 October 2016) Yet another ranking’s update offers another example of Chinese universities rising as Japanese universities continue to slide. In the first ranking in 2007 (HEEACT), there were nine Chinese universities and none in the top 200. In 2016, there are 53 Chinese universities with eleven in the top 200. During the same time…
(4 October 2016) This eBook from Altmetric provides the “nuts and bolts” needed to use altmetrics in a variety of library-land scenarios, including: Making collection development decisions Managing institutional repositories Helping faculty assemble evidence for their tenure & promotion packets Teaching workshops on altmetrics The authors share their favorite resources for staying up-to-date on altmetrics research and news.…
Breaking News! Oxford University ranks number one in THE World University Rankings! (23 September 2016) Last year, we did an in-depth comparison of the updated rankings from ARWU, QS and THE in Ruth’s Rankings 15. This year we focus on any changes in methodology and top world and Asia/Pacific rankings. We did a brief update…
(19 September 2016) SHARE 2.0 launched earlier this month with enhanced metadata and search capabilities, including filtering by preprint or publication, by subject, by funder, and by institution. SHARE 2.0 gives you the information you need to find new, relevant research and to find potential collaborators. From the landing page you can use the search…
(30 August 2016) Kudos (growkudos.com), the award-winning service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, has partnered with PaperHive (paperhive.org) to facilitate annotations and conversations around research articles. Like Kudos, PaperHive supports copyright-compliant sharing of research articles. Through PaperHive, researchers can read collaboratively, annotate and share research articles, with access rights managed by…
(24 August 2016) The 2016 edition of CAB Thesaurus – the largest source of terminology covering the applied life sciences – was published today. It provides a controlled vocabulary resource of nearly 2.5 million descriptive terms. CAB Thesaurus is an essential tool for academic, corporate and government librarians, who need to navigate, retrieve and index…
(16 August 2016) CHOR has perfected its first agreement with a funder outside of the US. CHOR, Inc. has signed a Letter of Agreement with the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), for a six-month Pilot project to explore and support its public access compliance needs. With public access still very much on the forefront, the…
GRID’s extensive database of over 63,000 organisations associated with research is now available as Open Linked Data (15 August 2016) Digital Science’s Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) is now available as RDF, joining a wide range of other prestigious data sources on the web of data. By using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to describe…
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