MORE 'GALE' POSTS
News Briefs (Items From Frontiers, LexisNexis, Gale)
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Frontiers, Gale, News, Publishing
1. Academic Publishing: Frontiers Offers New Impact Metrics And Access To Altmetric Data 1. Administrative Offices of the U.S. Courts Will Continue with LexisNexis, New Five Year Contract Signed 2. Newspaper Digitization: The Independent (UK) Partners with Cengage Learning, New Digital Archive Now Available Online
Facilities: “Edmonton Library Hoping For Support In Budget Deliberations”
| Funding, Gale, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
Note: The Edmonton Public Library was the Gale/Library Journal 2014 Library of the Year. From the Edmonton Sun: Edmonton’s best-read 50-year-old could be getting a faceilft if a proposed capital budget amendment is passed next week, but a total overhaul could take more than just city dollars. “Stanley Milner Library is nearly 50 years old […]
News Briefs (Items from JISC, Gale, EBSCO, and Others)
| Data Files, EBSCO, Gale, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
1. E-Book Subscription Services: Scribd Adds 1000+ Titles From Chronicle Books 2. Research Data Management: Jisc Launches Collaborative Initiative For UK Research The initiative is named “Research Data Spring.” 3. John Leahy Named Chief Financial Officer of Cengage Learning 4. EBSCO Information Services Releases eBook Education Collection 5. India: Government Working to Build National E-Library […]
Gale Makes Content From Several Databases Available For Textual Analysis and Data Mining
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Gale, Interactive Tools, Libraries
Last week we posted that students and faculty at North Carolina St. University would be able to use content from some Gale databases (resources the university already provides access to) for text analysis and data mining purposes. See: “North Carolina St. University Libraries Signs Innovative Data Mining Agreement With Gale” Today, Gale announced that they’ll […]
Humanities and History: North Carolina St. University Libraries Signs Innovative Data Mining Agreement With Gale
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Gale, Libraries, Publishing
Interesting!!! Will other publishers begin to offer this type of access? From Today’s NC State Libraries Announcement: The new agreement will allow North Carolina State University researchers to data mine Gale archival collections that are “important to historians and humanists.” While data mining is widespread in the social and natural sciences, publishers have traditionally not […]
News Roundup (Items from Gale, ProQuest, Oyster, and Others)
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Gale, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Roundup
1. WorldCat Discovery Now Supports Google Analytics 2. Princeton University Library Now Offers Alumni Free Remote Access to Several Databases (via The Daily Princetonian) 3. ProQuest Boosts Study of American Civil Rights Movement by Digitizing SNCC and CORE Papers 4. Leadership: Gale Names Paul Gazzolo as Senior Vice President and General Manager 5. Ebook Subscription […]
In June, the Edmonton Public Library was named the Gale/Library Journal 2014 Library of the Year. Today, the EPL released a cool video that shares the library’s 101 year history in a 3:34 animated timeline. It’s embedded below. In 2013 the Edmonton Public Library celebrated their 100th birthday. Nice job EPL! The video will look […]
News Roundup (Items from Gale, Infotrieve, OverDrive, Ancestry.com, and PlumX)
| Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Gale, Libraries, News, Publishing, Roundup, School Libraries
1. New Publishing Partners Bring New Content to Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) 2. Infotrieve Extends Information Delivery and Library Services Partnership with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) 3. NOOK and OverDrive partner to provide digital magazines and newspapers to libraries & OverDrive adds more than 200 new publishers to Global eBook catalog […]
JISC Shares Findings From Survey About Accessibility of Ebook Platforms
| Data Files, EBSCO, Elsevier, Gale, News
A recent blog post from JISC in the UK shared findings of a survey looking at, “accessibility issues with ebook platform providers” from the end-user perspective. The authors of the blog post do note that it took about nine months for the results of the survey to be tabulated and, “so some of the platform […]
Ohio: Public Library Of Cincinnati And Hamilton County Begins Offering Career Online High School Diploma Program
| Gale, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, School Libraries
The Public Library Of Cincinnati And Hamilton County announced today that they’re now offering library users the opportunity to earn accredited high school diplomas and career certificates via Career Online High School. The Career Online High School program is marketed to libraries by Gale. Here’s the library’s web page with FAQs about the program including […]
