A Springer project for college and small university ebook growth; Swets refines access management workflows; a Wikidata and authority control video; ALA releases digital literacy recommendations; also signs open letter to Congress on civil rights; F1000Research joins OASPA and COPE and is listed in DOAJ and SHERPA/RoMEO; ASIS&T and DCMI announce management partnership; EBSCO Discovery Service adds Arabic content.
Springer Responds to Ebook Growth with Program for Colleges and Small Universities
Digital Shift Reports that “in response to growing demand for ebook content, Springer has begun offering colleges and small universities complete collections of its ebook titles by copyright year. Pricing is based on the size of the institution, and the ebooks are sold DRM-free, under a perpetual-license model that allows unlimited simultaneous use…”
According top Library Technology Guides “Swets announced … the latest upgrade to SwetsWise Online Content. The access and discovery tool now introduces more content, improved search capability and a totally revitalized interface. The update is now freely available for all existing SwetsWise Online Content subscribers…”
“In this twelve-minute video, OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein and Senior Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt discuss Wikidata‘s pivotal role in bolstering authority control in Wikipedia through automated interactions with VIAF and other international authority files. Also included as an added bonus is a step-by-step Wikidata tutorial…”
According to District Dispatch “the American Library Association’s (ALA) Digital Literacy Task Force (which is led by the Office for Information Technology Policy) releases its recommendations to advance and sustain library engagement in digital literacy initiatives nationwide. These recommendations build on the January 2013 Task Force report Digital Literacy, Libraries, and Public Policy and constitute a call to action on the part of the ALA, library education programs, front-line librarians, various funding bodies, and the diverse stakeholders who use and support library services.
ALA Joins Others to Demand Civil Liberties
District Dispatch also reports that ALA “recently joined 86 other civil liberties groups, Internet activists and authors to sign an open letter to Congress, calling for a congressional investigation committee, similar to the Church Committee of the 1970s. The letter is in response to the recent leaking of highly classified documents about the government’s monitoring of private Internet and telephone communications…”
F1000Research joins 35 other professional publishers that are members of Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association 
(OASPA) , including BioMed Central, PLOS, and eLife, to help play an integral part in facilitating the transition of scholarly communication from traditional subscription-based systems to new innovative publishing models dedicated to making scientific research open access…
F1000Research is now listed in the DOAJ. Inclusion in the database means that F1000Research can now be indexed as a library resource, increasing the visibility of the journal among the global research and education community. In addition, F1000Research has been classified as a RoMEO green journal (a journal that allows both pre-print and post-print publisher?s version/PDF to be archived) and is now listed in the SHERPA/RoMEO directory…”
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative … will become a project of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) upon DCMI’s wrapping up activities at it’s current location in Singapore.
On June 30, 2013, DCMI Ltd. will cease operations as a company limited by guarantee in Singapore and became a project of ASIS&T. This change for DCMI from independent, non-profit company status in Singapore to a partnership with ASIS&T marks a significant milestone in DCMI’s history. The decision was motivated by the desire of DCMI’s governing Oversight Committee to shape a more flexible and progressive institutional structure, while retaining its mission, goals and objectives and its commitments to an open, consensus-driven community…”
“Collections from Al Manhal, the largest provider of electronic resources in the Arab world, will be searchable via EBSCO Information Service’s (EBSCO) robust and comprehensive discovery service, EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). The agreement between EBSCO and Al Manhal will allow metadata for their eBook, eJournals, eReports and eDissertation collections to be added to EDS…”
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