The British Library adds 12 million bibliographic records to WorldCat - November 18, 2010
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced that the British Library has added 12 million bibliographic records to WorldCat, an online resource for finding library materials. OCLC staff worked closely with the British Library staff to add the records over a four-month project. As a result… Read More
ACS launches three new displays of the online TOC for journals and other products - November 18, 2010
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced three new displays of the online Tables of Contents (TOC) across all ACS journals, ACS Symposium Series Books and Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) Archives TOC pages. The new features, labeled 'Grid View', 'Abstract Viewer', and 'Print View', are… Read More
Internet Society donation to support W3C stewardship of open web platform - November 18, 2010
The Internet Society has announced a $1 million donation to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in its continuing efforts to foster an open Internet ecosystem. This is the second installment of the Internet Society's 2009 pledge of $2.5 million over three… Read More
UC San Diego named founding partner of National Digital Stewardship Alliance - November 18, 2010
The University of California, San Diego Libraries have been named founding partners of the Library of Congress' National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA). The libraries expect to play a leadership role in mapping out national standards and best practices for preserving and sharing digital content via the… Read More
French university migrates to latest version of ProQuest platform - November 18, 2010
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that France's Université Lumière Lyon II has migrated to the latest version of the ProQuest platform, which allows students and faculty to search, discover, gather and share content. According to the company, users will now be able… Read More
Google and Hachette Livre announce book scanning deal - November 18, 2010
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, has announced an agreement with French publisher Hachette Livre to scan thousands of out-of-print French books for Google's online library. The two companies said in a statement they had settled previous disagreements and signed a memorandum of understanding that… Read More
