Leading mobile platform-as-a-service provider helps public libraries serving populations of less than 25,000 people extend their reach with industry leading library-branded mobile apps that are easy for staff to deliver (19 October 2015, Sunnyvale, CA) Boopsie, Inc. today released details about their new mobile app offering designed specifically for small and rural libraries. The Express…
(19 October 2015) A new Open Research at ANU website launched today, coinciding with International Open Access Week, delivering a comprehensive guide to the benefits and policy requirements of open access publishing for researchers and academics at The Australian National University. The new website has been designed to: Enable the world to access the great research…
(13 October 2015) Say goodbye to hard-to-read static PDFs and say hello to search, annotate, underline, view videos, change text size & define. Beginning January 2016, all magazines and transactions will be available as eBooks in myCS. This new IEEE Computer Society platform will make your publications more readable, customizable, retrievable and, ultimately, more engaging.…
(9 October 2015) The Chinese collections at the British Library consist of more than 100,000 printed books and 2,500 periodical titles. The material has been acquired or donated to the British Library since the Department of Printed Books in the British Museum was founded in 1753, the year of the foundation of the Museum itself.…
(6 October 2015) The American Library Association Presidential Citation for Innovative International Library Projects began as an initiative of Loriene Roy, 2007–2008 ALA president. Since its inception, 34 groups have been recognized. Earlier this year, ALA President Courtney L. Young, with support from the International Relations Round Table Advisory Award Committee, honored four libraries with…
(7 October 2015) Jurn.org reports that JISC has commissioned a new September 2015 Spotlight Literature Review on scholarly discovery, which is available now in PDF. Short, but to-the-point… in most cases staff over-estimate the extent to which users use different library services, in some cases very greatly. […] overall they think, it seems mistakenly, that…
(1 October 2015, Madison, Wis.) Demco, Inc., a leading library supplier, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Boopsie, the leading mobile platform-as-a-service provider for libraries worldwide. “We’re excited to add the Boopsie team and software platform to our global organization because their people, technology and user-centric approach are designed to deliver a superior experience…
(24 September 2015) In the next few weeks, authors with an ORCID iD will be able to have Crossref automatically push information about their published work to their ORCID record. 230 publishers already include ORCID iDs in their metadata deposits with Crossrefs and currently there are 248,000 DOIs that include ORCID iDs. More here.
(21 September 2015) Altmetric has a new free-to-download eBook resource, co-written by Scholastica and Altmetric: The Evolution of Impact Indicators: From bibliometrics to altmetrics As scholarly workflows and academic communication patterns evolve to meet the needs of today’s digital researcher, a huge shift in the way we think about and identify indicators of broader impacts is…
(18 September 2015) One of the first tasks for DataCite in the European Commission-funded THOR project, which started in June, was to contribute to a comparison of the ORCID and DataCite metadata standards. Together with ORCID, CERN, the British Library and Dryad. DataCite looked at how contributors, organizations and artefacts – and the relations between…
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