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Thursday, October 24, 2013
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| A Trenchant View of World War I |
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by Marydee Ojala
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| Next year is the centennial of the beginning of World War I. It was July 1914 when what was then called the Great War (no one really believed there would be a second world war) began. Although there's no dearth of books and articles on the subject, what's been missing is the ordinary soldier's perspective. With the digitization of 1,500 trench journals and unit magazines, ProQuest is filling this gap by providing access to unique primary sources. |
| Springer Announces Korean OA Journal and Book Series |
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| Springer Science+Business Media will publish new South Korean content in partnership with the Korea Nano Technology Research Society (KoNTRS) and KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Press. KoNTRS will work with Springer to publish a peer-reviewed, open access (OA) journal titled Nano Convergence. This international, interdisciplinary journal will debut in January 2014 and provide all of its research results for free online. |
| New Bibliography Provides List of Altmetrics Sources |
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| Digital Scholarship released the Altmetrics Bibliography on its website to serve as a resource for understanding altmetrics. The bibliography is a listing of more than 50 English-language articles and technical reports that explore topics such as the impact of scientists' personal webpages, journal evaluation using social bookmarking data, and the difference between bibliographic and web citations. |
| NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative Releases Recommended Practice Draft |
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| A draft of "Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery" is open for public comment until Nov. 18, 2013. This recommended practice from the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) provides guidelines for content providers and discovery service creators on how to address issues that arise in the use of indexed search as part of library discovery services. |
| Who’s Who in Ebooks |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| Just as books don't magically appear on library shelves, ebooks don't automatically pop up in a library's online catalog. Librarians work with ebook vendors to get econtent into the hands, or rather, onto the e-readers, of their patrons. With the many e-lending options now on the market, here are five of the big ones with a few of their major features for cross comparison. |
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