LIBER signs open letter calling for revised Text and Data Mining (TDM) exception - September 26, 2017
Twenty organisations, including LIBER, have signed an open letter to European lawmakers calling for changes to a proposed Text and Data Mining exception. Coordinated by the European Alliance for Research Excellence, the letter asks Members of the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) in the European Parliament… Read More
NISO releases Issues in Vocabulary Management Technical Report - September 26, 2017
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of a new Technical Report, NISO TR-06-2017, Issues in Vocabulary Management. This document is one outcome of the NISO Bibliographic Roadmap Development Project, which was conducted in 2013-14 with funding from the… Read More
DataSalon launches new data quality service – DataSalon DQ - September 26, 2017
Customer insight solutions provider DataSalon has launched a new data quality service, aimed directly at the needs of scholarly publishers. DataSalon DQ is a fully-hosted data quality solution, providing a flexible toolkit for analysing and improving the quality and accuracy of any data set. Improvements… Read More
Nominations sought for ALCTS 2018 HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions - September 26, 2017
Nominations are being accepted for the 2018 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) awards for professional achievement, including the HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions. The deadline for nominations and supporting materials is December 1, 2017. Presented by the Acquisitions Section for… Read More
Scope leverages Synaptica® to deliver a specialized thesaurus on nanotechnology for a global STM publisher - September 25, 2017
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced that it has successfully completed an ANSI/NISO standards compliant nanotechnology Knowledge Model (KM) for a global scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishing company. Additionally, the hierarchies in the… Read More
Elsevier provides free online access to health and disaster journals in response to recent hurricanes and Mexico earthquakes - September 25, 2017
Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, is providing free access online to health and disaster-related journals through the Emergency Access Initiative (EAI), a program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in partnership with the U.S. National Library… Read More
