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Credo, Gale, IEEE, and SAGE Announce Support For NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative (ODI)
| Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Gale, Journal Articles, Libraries, Public Libraries, Resources
From a Joint Announcement: In the cooperative spirit of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), four leading academic content providers — Credo; Gale, a part of Cengage Learning; IEEE; and SAGE – today, publically disclose their support of the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI). In NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery (RP-19-2014), content providers […]
1. BiblioBoard Announces Version 6.0: Raising the Bar for the Library Patron Digital Experience 2. Portico tackles the ‘long tail,’ focuses on small publishers 3. Gale Expands Relationship with Google and Discovery Services 4. No Fooling! It’s Now Illegal to Sell Adult eBooks Before 10 PM in Germany (via The Digital Reader) Comment by Gary […]
EveryLibrary, the library advocacy organization, has launched VoteLibraries.org in partnership with the Creative Action Network (CAN) and funded by partners including Mango Languages. From an Blog Post by Joh Chrastka, Exec. Director of EveryLibrary: VoteLibraries is the first and only library advocacy site focused on local library funding campaigns, whether at the ballot box or […]
1. WorldCat Discovery Adds Custom Database Groupings, Course Resources/Reserves, and New Topic Facet To Narrow Results ||| Additional Information 2. After Several Public Google Maps Hacks, Google Forced To Suspend Map Maker To Prevent More Fake Edits (by Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land) 3. Gale Launches “Research In Context”, a New Research Tool For Middle […]
How Much is Purdue University Libraries Paying for Some Databases?
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Gale, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Public Libraries, Resources
Caveat: As many of you already know, how much a library pays for a specific database comes after a negotiation between the library and database vendor. Libraries pay various amounts. With that understood it’s still interesting and perhaps useful to get an at least an idea of what a database costs. Purdue University Libraries (PUL), a […]
From Today’s Announcement: Gale is partnering with EveryLibrary, a national non-profit organization dedicated to non-partisan political action on behalf of libraries, for a media campaign to increase awareness of the role libraries play in community and economic development. [Clip] Gale and EveryLibrary will partner on a media campaign about the value libraries and librarians provide with […]
Unlimited Priorities and NCSU Libraries Partner to Create Data Mining Agreement For Content From Accessible Archives
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Gale, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Resources
Accessible Archives offers access to primary source materials from 18th and 19th Century publications. At the bottom of this post we’ve included a link to a data mining agreement with Gale that NCSU Libraries signed and announced last November. From UP: Unlimited Priorities a firm specializing in support for small and medium-size companies in the information […]
Industry News Roundup: Items from Gale, OCLC, ProQuest, IOP Publishing, Readcube, and Others
| Digital Preservation, Gale, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Publishing, Roundup
1. Gale Announces Mass Digitization Program for Arabic Language Primary Materials 2 .IOP Publishing Journals Now Indexed and Discoverable Across ReadCube’s Web, Desktop and Mobile Platforms 3. ProQuest and Google Collaborate to Improve Researchers’ Workflows We will have more on this soon. 4. Four Kentucky University Libraries Select OCLC Worldshare Management Services MORE TO COME […]
Standards: NISO Launching Three New Projects To Support Exchange/Interoperability of Bibliographic Data
| Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Gale, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Patrons and Users, Preservation, Resources
From Today’s National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Announcement: The voting members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved three new projects to develop standards to better support exchange and interoperability of bibliographic data. These projects were identified as high priorities in NISO’s Bibliographic Roadmap pre-standards initiative, which was funded by a grant from […]
Listen Here: Edmonton Public Library Will Begin Offering Free Downloads of Music by Local Musicians in April
| Gale, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
Background: While this is the first project of it’s kind to launch in Canada we’ve posted about similar project in other locations during the past couple years. Projects Include: Denver, CO Ann Arbor, MI Iowa City, IA Nationally, in New Zealand From the Edmonton Journal: Fifty albums will be available for free when capitalcityrecords.ca launches […]
