Happy 40th Birthday, WorldCat!
Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the launch of WorldCat, the world’s most comprehensive online library database. Few of those involved in the creation of WorldCat would have guessed that 40 years later, thousands of librarians and catalogers around the world would have cataloged more than 1.7 billion items.
Copyright Clearance Center Partners with cSubs
Copyright Clearance Center (www.Copyright.com) has partnered with cSubs, a provider of subscription, book, newspaper and eContent management services. Under the agreement, CCC’s point-of-content licensing solution Rightslink Basic will be integrated directly into the cSubs subscription management workflow.
Winners of the Gale/Library Media Connection TEAMS Award Announced
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, and Library Media Connection Magazine today announced the three winners of the TEAMS Award — Teachers and Media Specialists Influencing Student Achievement. The 2011 winners are Winter Park Elementary School in Wilmington, North Carolina; Patrick F. Taylor Science and Technology Academy in Jefferson, Louisiana; and Skyline High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
OCLC and Ex Libris Group® have signed an agreement that will enable Ex Libris to incorporate the WorldCat Search API into several Ex Libris discovery and delivery services, providing OCLC member libraries access to WorldCat through the Ex Libris Primo® and MetaLib® solutions.
Taylor & Francis Online goes mobile
“Taylor & Francis has created Taylor & Francis Online Mobile which provides mobile access to the 1,600 Journals and Reference Works available via Taylor & Francis Online from today.”
HathiTrust and Google Will Help Duke U. Press Digitize a Trove of Older Titles
“Duke University Press has struck an agreement with HathiTrust and Google to make a large number of its backlist titles freely available through the HathiTrust digital repository. The press, like many others, hasn’t had spare resources to digitize and archive all those books itself.”
McGraw-Hill To Split Into Two Companies: McGraw-Hill Markets and McGraw-Hill Education
“Following the call for a break-up and reorganization of McGraw-Hill Cos. by investors last month, McGraw-Hill announced today that it will split into two separate public companies: McGraw-Hill Markets, focused on the capital and commodities markets, and McGraw-Hill Education, focused on education services and digital learning.”
More information: An update from the Wall Street Journal with more financial info. CORRECT: 3rd UPDATE McGraw-Hill To Split Into Two Public Companies
Rare and Storied Objects Unveiled at PEM
This fall, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents over 30 rare and storied objects from the museum’s renowned Phillips Library, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, original transcripts from the Salem witchcraft trials, and the first example of paper currency in the Western world.
IOP Publishing press release: Article evolution starts here
The online scientific article is evolving. IOP Publishing (IOP) has today announced the start of its article evolution programme, a new project designed to improve the online delivery of research articles, enabling readers to interact with research in new ways. The first online release from the project has gone live today providing an enhanced HTML view for all new published articles in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical and Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.
New additions in Classics and Archaeology for Cambridge Journals
Cambridge University Press has announced that it will become the new home of both Anatolian Studies and The Cambridge Classical Journal from January 2012. This marks the third consecutive year the Cambridge list has seen expansion and confirms the Press’s position as one of the foremost publishers of classical scholarship in the world.
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