JISC Collections to provide UK universities streamlined access to Knovel - July 6, 2012
JISC Collections, the membership organisation that supports the provision of digital content for education and research in the UK, and Knovel have signed a new three year agreement which gives UK universities and colleges streamlined access to Knovel. Knovel is a Web-based application integrating technical information… Read More
ScienceAlerts.com adds Environmental Sciences category - July 6, 2012
ScienceAlerts.com, a Web 2.0 social network to discover and share scholarly content, has announced that the latest addition to this website is the Environmental Sciences Category. The new category currently features more than 27,000 articles selected from over 150 scientific environment publishing sources. ScienceAlerts.com’s Environmental… Read More
National Library of Medicine adds five new collections to digital oral history holdings - July 6, 2012
The History of Medicine Division of the US’ National Library of Medicine recently added to its online oral history content 130 interviews, over 6,800 pages of transcripts and 50 hours of audio content, along with five new special collections. These additions more than double the number… Read More
ARL joins library groups to support lending rights - July 5, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has joined the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), who work collectively as the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), to file an amicus curiae brief (PDF) with the Supreme Court of the United States… Read More
IFLA, other library groups express concern over TPPA stand on copyrights - July 5, 2012
Negotiators from nine countries are meeting on July 2-10 in San Diego to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). The TPPA is a multilateral trade agreement between Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Vietnam, Malaysia, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Peru and Singapore, covering all aspects of commercial relations between the countries. … Read More
Columbia University, Thomson Reuters launch data visualisation project - July 3, 2012
Columbia University and business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, have announced the launch of the Advanced Data Visualization Project (ADVP). The project, based at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), will be sponsored by Thomson Reuters. It is projected to facilitate research into… Read More
