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HathiTrust: "Pays to Share"
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|From an Inside Higher Ed Article by Steve Kolowich: HathiTrust, a cooperative based at the University of Michigan, has taken steps to make sure that Google is not the only one putting together a comprehensive digital archive of academic library content. After only two and a half years, HathiTrust now counts more than 50 member […]
From a NY Times Article by Jeremy Peters: Beginning March 28, visitors to NYTimes.com will be able to read 20 articles a month without paying, a limit that company executives said was intended to draw in subscription revenue from the most loyal readers while not driving away the casual visitors who make up the vast […]
The March/April 2011 Issue of D-Lib is Now Online
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports, Scholastic, School Libraries
|D-Lib (Volume 17, Number 3/4) Direct to Table-of-Contents Articles Discovering the Information Needs of Humanists When Planning an Institutional Repository Article by David Seaman, Dartmouth College Library Abstract: Through in-person interviews with humanities faculty members, this study examines what information needs are expressed by humanities scholars that an institutional repository (IR) can address. It also asks […]
Paper — Does WestlawNext Really Change Everything: The Implications of WestlawNext on Legal Research
|Does WestlawNext Really Change Everything: The Implications of WestlawNext on Legal Research WestlawNext, Thomson Reuters’ newest electronic research service, has been around for over a year now. Ron Wheeler shares his thoughts on how this service may impact various aspects of legal research, and he suggests further study and research are necessary to fully evaluate […]
From an Announcement: Thomson Reuters announced today the results of its annual roundup of the “hottest” researchers and research papers. In its March/April issue of Science Watch, an open Web resource for science metrics and analysis, Thomson Reuters identified the top 13 authors who fielded the highest numbers of Hot Papers cited in 2010. [Clip] […]
At the end of August, 2010 Schipol Airport in Amsterdam opened a library for travelers. More info (with pictures ) via USA Today and Radio Netherlands. Today, Ralph Jennings from the IDG News Service reports on the opening of a library at the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. From the Article: The e-library at Taiwan Taoyuan […]
Just Released: International Journal of Digital Curation Vol 6, No 1
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation
|Direct to Table of Contents and Links to Each Article Editorial Editorial Kevin Ashley Papers (Peer-reviewed) Born Broken: Fonts and Information Loss in Legacy Digital Documents Geoffrey Brown, Kam Woods Use and Impact of UK Research Data Centres Ellen Collins The Milieu and the MESSAGE: Talking to Researchers about Data Curation Issues in a Large […]
Video: Presidential Libraries: "Preserving Presidential History"
Archives and Special Collections, Conference Presentations, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|Via C-SPAN.org: In 1939, Franklin Roosevelt donated his personal and presidential papers to the Federal Government. As a result, the Presidential Library system was formally established. Yet, the dilemma of presenting the history of former presidents has not been without controversy. The preparation of a new Watergate exhibit at the Nixon Presidential Library is one […]
U.S. Government: "Stripped-Down Digital Records Archive Set to Debut"
Archives and Special Collections, Dashboards, Journal Articles, News, Preservation
|From a Federal Times Article: The National Archives and Records Administration’s Electronic Records Archive (ERA), after years of delays, will launch at three agencies this month, but will have fewer capabilities than originally planned. The State, Justice and Health and Human Services departments will be the first to fully access the system to transfer electronic […]
This new technical report was written by Yue Wang, Hongsong Li, Haixun Wang, and Kenny Zhu from Microsoft Research Asia. From the Abstract: Traditional web search engines treat queries as sequences of keywords and return web pages that contain those keywords as results. Such a mechanism is effective when the user knows exactly the right […]