Social Media and Archives report details habits and preferences of archival researchers - August 19, 2013
Social Media and Archives: A Survey of Archive Users details findings from a survey of users of archives to learn more about how researchers find out about systems like ArchiveGrid, and the role that social media, recommendations, reviews, and other forms of user-contributed annotation play in archival research. Written by… Read More
Research Libraries UK joins The European Library - August 19, 2013
The UK consortium of scholarly libraries, Research Libraries UK (RLUK), has recently joined The European Library, a membership organisation that provides services to researchers, with access to more than 200 million records and digital items from all of Europe's national libraries and a growing number of… Read More
Dr. Valentin Fuster named editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology - August 19, 2013
The Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), published by Elsevier Inc., has announced the appointment of world-renowned cardiologist and researcher Dr. Valentin Fuster as editor-in-chief of the journal. The journal is the flagship journal of the American College of Cardiology and claims to be… Read More
Emerald, ASLIB and Aberystwyth University collaborate to launch new accredited Information Leadership eLearning programme at IFLA - August 19, 2013
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing, UK, ASLIB and the Association for Information Management have announced the launch of Pathways to Information Leadership, an accredited online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme, developed and delivered with Aberystwyth University. Prospective students can browse available courses and sign up by… Read More
Kenneth Blum named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Group’s OA medical journal Addiction Research & Therapy - August 19, 2013
OMICS Group Incorporation, a scientific organisation that drives the progress of research through scholarly open access journals, has announced the appointment of Dr. Kenneth Blum from Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, USA as Editor-in-Chief for the scholarly open-access Journal of Addiction Research and Therapy (JART).… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - August 19, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Have We Forgotten Readers in Our Worries Over Access?); Paul Kirby (On Rejecting Journals: A soft boycott of closed-access journals may be a more effective way to re-align resources); Ellen Collins (Why open access isn't enough in itself);… Read More
