Center for the History of Medicine and MPublishing collaborate to launch digital influenza archives - October 8, 2012
The University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine, in partnership with the U-M Library's MPublishing division, has announced the release of The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Encyclopedia, an original, open access digital collection of archival, primary, and interpretive materials related to… Read More
OCLC names Helene Blowers as WorldShare Management Services Community Manager - October 8, 2012
Library information provider OCLC, US, has announced the appointment of Helene Blowers, a library technology leader for more than 15 years, as OCLC WorldShare Management Services Community Manager. Her appointment will be effective November 1. In her new role, Blowers will be a primary liaison… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 8, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Does Open Access Tackle, Perpetuate, or Exacerbate the Matthew Effect?); Eve Hardy (Scientific Misconduct, Not Error, Accounts For The Majority Of Article Retractions); Li-Shih Huang (There’s a disconnect between “scholarly value” and how we reach audiences who need… Read More
Association of American Publishers and Google announce settlement agreement - October 5, 2012
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Internet search services provider Google have announced a settlement agreement that will provide access to publishers' in-copyright books and journals digitised by Google for its Google Library Project. The dismissal of the lawsuit will end seven years of litigation.… Read More
EBSCO, Elsevier agreement allows mutual customers to access Scopus within EBSCO Discovery Service - October 5, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and STM publisher Elsevier have announced an agreement to allow mutual customers to access Scopus within EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Scopus is a bibliographic, abstract and citation database provided by Elsevier. The agreement… Read More
NFAIS to host webinar on usage of linked data - October 5, 2012
The US' National Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will hold a 90 minute webinar on October 25, 2012 to provide an overview of how linked data can be used to the benefit of the entire information community - content providers, librarians, and users. Bradley Allen,… Read More
