New report examines feasibility of outsourcing management operations for digitised books to shared service providers - January 7, 2011
Library information provider OCLC Research, US, has released a new report titled, 'Cloud-sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized Library Environment'. This report presents findings from a year-long study designed and executed by OCLC Research, the HathiTrust, New York University's Elmer Bobst Library, and the… Read More
Study linking vaccine to autism an ‘elaborate fraud’, say BMJ articles - January 7, 2011
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has reportedly published a series of articles that state that the retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an 'elaborate fraud' based on the 'falsification of data'. An investigation published by the journal concludes… Read More
Nature Publishing Group launches new open access publication – Scientific Reports - January 7, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced the launch of Scientific Reports, an online, open access, peer-reviewed publication. The journal is currently accepting submissions, and will publish its first articles in June 2011. Scientific Reports will publish research covering the natural sciences -… Read More
Ex Libris Group announces next-generation library management solution – Ex Libris Alma - January 7, 2011
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the company's next-generation library management solution has been named Ex Libris Alma. Harnessing the Unified Resource Management (URM) framework, Alma supports the entire range of library operations - selection, acquisition, metadata management, digitisation and fulfillment… Read More
New blog to share and discuss draft standard author rights language for library content licenses - January 7, 2011
An ad hoc working group has created a new blog to share and discuss draft standard author rights language for library content licenses. This language is intended to be used by libraries and consortia as they negotiate contracts with content vendors in order to ensure that authors at these institutions… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education to adopt LTI framework in partnership with Blackboard - January 7, 2011
Education materials publisher McGraw-Hill Education, US, has announced seamless integration of its Connect platform and Blackboard Learn using certified standards initiated by IMS Global Learning Consortium at the HigherEdTECH summit. IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) v1.0 seeks to provide a single framework… Read More
