August 13, 2009 – 11:07 am
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Letter from the Director
New Informit databases
Informit e-Library update
Over 120 titles added to Informit
Informit Spotlight – Meanjin joins Informit
RMIT Publishing Journal Program update
Marketing update – Informit logo set to change
Marketing insights – promoting Informit at your library
Customer support
What our customers and partners think
Sales team update and upcoming conferences
System developments
Database updates – metadata and frequency changes
RMIT Publishing [...]
August 10, 2009 – 8:16 am
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In this issue:
*The Library’s digital content transfer tools and the BagIt specification
*The launch of CDL’s Public Web Archiving Service Collections
*High school students are asked, “What does ‘digital preservation’ mean?”
*The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program explores cloud computing
*Seminar on Photometadata comes to Washington, DC
*News of the AALL and NAGARA recent meetings
*Announcements: New position open [...]
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NEWS FEATURES
Elsevier redefines online articles
The journal Cell is leading a push to redefine how peer-reviewed articles are accessed and used online. Siân Harris spoke to Emilie Marcus, editor in chief of Cell Press, to find out why
Students join access debate
There has been an important shift in how students interact with and shape the world [...]
Issue 18, July 2009, of the Designing Libraries Newsletter has just been published and contains the latest news, reviews and comments from the Designing Libraries team.
Contents include:
New features on the Designing Libraries site From the Database
Tips on searching the database.
Featured Library: David Wilson Library, University of Leicester
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August 4, 2009 – 11:18 am
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This issue takes a close look at the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), which Senators John Cornyn and Joe Lieberman reintroduced in the US Senate in June.
The round-up section briefly notes 140 OA developments from July.
source: Petr Suber
The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) is pleased to announce the release of the first issue of ‘Share: the newsletter of the Australian National Data Service’. This quarterly newsletter will feature stories about ANDS engagements, project updates, latest findings, conference reports and forthcoming events. ANDS hopes that members of the research community will find the [...]
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Articles in this issue
Executive Notes
Sustainable Business Models for Digital Resources
“Triggering” Content from the Portico Archive
Perspectives
Lada Adamic, School of Information and
the Center for the Study of Complex Systems,
University of Michigan
Connecting with JSTOR Power Users
JSTOR Facts
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Inside this issue you will find:
Using RSS Feeds for Current Awareness 1 IL Section Schedule in Milan 1 Letter from Chair 2 Project PRIMO 2 Scotland Health InfoLit Portal 3 Digital Humanities Manifesto 3 Finnish and British Cooperation 4 New IFLA WebSite 4 Prague IVIG 5 Faculty [...]
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This issue features ARL’s recent statement encouraging members to refrain from signing nondisclosure clauses, an article outlining the case for regulating Google and the proposed Book Rights Registry, the results of an ARL survey of learning and research spaces in member libraries, and more
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New upgrades to ScienceDirect
Two key developments were applied to ScienceDirect on June 20, 2009… Read on.
Coming to ScienceDirect in summer 2009
ScienceDirect will be enhanced with NextBio’s unique set of ontology-based tools for text mining and through the addition of high-quality sources of public data that NextBio has collected and compiled… Read on.
New Major Reference Works [...]
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