From the monthly archives: December 2009
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has selected ResearcherID by Thomson Reuters to reduce author ambiguity and enhance the robustness of its institutional repository, the HKU Scholars Hub, which provides open access support to the university’s scholarly content. HKU, Hong Kong’s oldest university, is the first institution worldwide to implement ResearcherID on this scale with [...]
Read More... →CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline for submissions (2nd call): 8 January 2010
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2010
March 18-21, 2010 – Porto, Portugal
http://www.esociety-conf.org/
Keynote Speaker (confirmed): Christina Preston, MirandaNet Founder, UK
Read More... →RERO, the Library Network of Western Switzerland, has agreed to contribute more than 4.8 million records for mainly French-, English- and German-language materials to WorldCat, and OCLC will provide import capabilities for cooperative cataloging for RERO libraries along with increased visibility of the libraries’ collections on the Web.
The agreement is effective January 1, 2010 [...]
Read More... →The American Library Association (ALA), the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) recently sent a letter (pdf) to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) asking for ongoing judicial oversight of the Google Book Search settlement, if approved.
The library associations urge the DOJ to request [...]
Read More... →Bob Schatz will become North American Sales Manager for BioMed Central on January 11, 2o1o. BMC, as we all know, is owned by the global publisher Springer Group, which is based in Germany with offices in New York City. Bob will be calling on libraries all over the US and Canada, much as he did [...]
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