OhioLink chooses EBSCO; DOAJ has a new management agreement; Europeana offers a new historic photo collection; Open University Launches Futurelearn; Credo a CODiE Awards finalist; Twitter offers tweet archive capability; and two new publication funds established in Norway.
OhioLINK Chooses EBSCO to Provide Discovery Layer
Information Today reports that “the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) and its Library Advisory Council selected EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) to provide EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) as a shared service to OhioLINK libraries. The agreement with EBSCO will offer member libraries a powerful tool to improve searches for patrons…”
“Lund University Libraries and Infrastructure Services for Open Access C.I.C. (IS4OA – a UK-registered Community Interest Company) jointly announce important changes regarding the future operations and development of the DOAJ.
The DOAJ was initiated at Lund University, Library Head Office in May 2003. Initially the service was based on project grants but over the years the major share of support was generated from income from the membership programme. Having launched with a list of 300 journals, the DOAJ is now the leading source of Open Access journals, and this month lists more than 8 300 journals in all subject areas, published in more than 100 countries in over 50 languages…”
Citing a press release from Europeana, InfoDOCKET notes that “Europeana [is now home] to about one million historical images coming fresh from the archives of nine European news agencies participating in the EURO-Photo project: ANSA in Italy, belga in Belgium, dpa in Germany, EFE in Spain, Lusa in Portugal, MTI in Hungary, PAP in Poland, Scanpix in Denmark and epa worldwide…”
According to Information Today “students from the U.K. and around the world will have free access to some of the country’s top universities thanks to Futurelearn Ltd, an entirely new company being launched by The Open University (OU). The universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Anglia, Exeter, King’s College London, Lancaster, Leeds, Southampton, St Andrews and Warwick have all signed up to join Futurelearn…
Credo Named SIIA Content CODiE Award Finalist for Best General Reference Service
According to this press release, Credo has been “named a finalist for the 2013 SIIA Content CODiE Awards for Best General Reference Service.
Serving as the pre-eminent awards program for the software and information industries, the SIIA CODiE Awards have been honoring excellence for 27 years. This year’s program has 75 categories organized by industry focus in Content, Education and Software. Finalists in the Content categories represent the best products, technologies, and services created by or for media, publishers, and information services providers…”
Citing the Twitter blog, Resource Shelf report that Twitter has introduced “the ability to download your Twitter archive, so you’ll get all your Tweets (including Retweets) going back to the beginning. Once you have your Twitter archive, you can view your Tweets by month, or search your archive to find Tweets with certain words, phrases, hashtags or @usernames. You can even engage with your old Tweets just as you would with current ones.”
Two new publication funds have been established in Norway during the last few days.
“The board of Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway’s largest University College, has decided to establish a publication fund to cover APCs, starting in 2013 with a budget of NOK 300 000. The board of the University of Bergen, one of Norway’s largest HE institutions, has decided to establish a publication fund. Details on budget and procedures will be decided on later, but it is expected to start working early in 2013.Of the major Norwegian HE institutions only the largest, the University of Oslo, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, are now lacking a publication fund, while many mid-sized institutions have established such funds.”
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