New Data Mining and Analytics Tools for the HathiTrust; a mobile app for Silobreaker; Australian Catholic University Library selects Ingram Coutts; NASIG publishes 2012 Conference Proceedings; CHILL Selects EBSCO for serials and databases; and Hachette No. 1 in Ebook Publisher Power Rankings so far in 2013.
Information Today reports that “the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) announced the availability of data mining and analytics tools for the HathiTrust Digital Library, a collection of digital texts from over 70 research libraries around the world. The new tools provide a much-needed entry point to large-scale analysis of HathiTrust’s contents.
…The new infrastructure release follows an aggressive development path set forth by the HTRC Executive Management Team at the 2012 HTRC UnCamp, a gathering of HTRC developers, researchers, and librarians. Users can now apply sophisticated computational research methodology across the large-scale collection, leveraging metadata crafted over time by libraries…”
Information Today also reports that “Silobreaker announced the release of its mobile app for subscribers of Silobreaker Premium, the online intelligence tool for cyber security, competitive intelligence, incident management, risk analysis, and government/military OSINT. With the app, subscribers get full access to their Silobreaker Premium setups, including features such as dashboards, watch lists, and document collections…”
NASIG publishes 2012 Conference Proceedings
NASIG is pleased to announce the publication of its 2012 Conference Proceedings.
Co-edited by Sharon Dyas-Correia and Sara Bahnmaier, the Proceedings have been published by Taylor & Francis as volume 64 of The Serials Librarian. The Proceedings provide a written record of the presentations given at NASIG’s 27th Annual Conference held in Nashville, Tennessee on June 7-10, 2012.
To access the Proceedings online, NASIG members can log in to the NASIG homepage and then select Publications > Conference Proceedings. Online access to the Proceedings is also available to subscribers of The Serials Librarian via the T&F platform: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wser20/current
The editors wish to thank all speakers and recorders for their contributions to the Proceedings.
“Australian Catholic University Library, today announced that following a formal tender process, it has selected Ingram Coutts as its preferred supplier for print and digital monographs and ancillary services…
The ACU Library tender panel found that Ingram Coutts best fit its workflow, approval, demand-driven and system needs, and provided the greatest cost-savings to the library. The tender process was designed and coordinated by Oranjarra Partners based on recommendations regarding the ACU Library’s goals and objectives made in its Collection Development & Resource Services Project report of 2012…
A Service Level Agreement governing the new alliance will run through December 2015, with a library-determined option to extend the agreement for a further two years…”
EBSCO announced today that it has been selected as dual supplier of print and electronic serials subscriptions, packages and databases for CHILL, the Consortium of Independent Health Information Libraries in London (an association of forty-three libraries in the greater London area, specializing in information on health and medicine).
Digital Book World has published this “list of the publishers who have made the Digital Book World Ebook Best-Seller List in the first quarter of 2013 — and how many times they’ve each made the list… Driven by the success of series like Beautiful Creatures, some 27% of all books on the list so far this year have been titles from Hachette. Random House and Penguin are not far behind with 87 titles and 42 titles, respectively. Combined, Penguin Random House has published roughly 40% of all ebook best-sellers this year…”
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