From the monthly archives: January 2011
From a press release by ARL on Jan. 27, 2011:
The Association of Research Libraries has appointed Christine Avery a Visiting Program Officer (VPO) to work with the 21st Century Research Library Collections Task Force, effective January 2011. Avery is Head of the University College Libraries and Collection Development Coordinator for Commonwealth Campus Libraries [...]
Read More... →arXiv is the latest content source to become available via EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) from EBSCO Publishing. arXiv is an e-print service owned and operated by Cornell University offering an extensive archive of scientific papers. Metadata from arXiv will be added to the EDS Base Index, the most comprehensive and robust collection of metadata from [...]
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Read More... →An interesting write-up on the Digital Book World Conference from Eric Hellman.
“It’s like you’re taking a first step on the road to the valley of death.” The topic was ebook metadata, but the speaker’s statement could as well be applied to the Digital Book World (DBW) Conference as a whole. “Fear no ebooks” was [...]
Read More... →From a press release by Springer on Jan. 25, 2011:
The Japan Human Cell Society has chosen Springer to publish its official English-language journal, Human Cell in electronic format. The first online issue will be published at Springer in early 2011. The journal was previously published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Read More... →From a press release by OCLC on January 25, 2011:
OCLC and ImagineEasy Solutions, LLC are collaborating to create a customizable library version of ImagineEasy Solutions’ popular EasyBib.com service, the most popular online citation site on the Web. The EasyBib Library Edition service will be rolled out in a beta testing phase with [...]
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