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Thursday, October 31, 2013
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| Open Access Week 2013: A Recap of This Year’s Global Celebration |
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by Abby Clobridge
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| This year's Open Access Week, a global event that just finished its sixth year, was held Oct. 21-27, 2013. Celebrations of various types were sponsored by libraries, students, researchers, publishers, and nonprofit organizations to increase awareness about open access (OA). The Open Access Week website notes that the week is designed to provide "an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they've learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research." |
| KuroBase Helps Manage Data Stores |
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| KuroBase launched a fully managed, cloud-based data store, its new database as a service for small and midsize enterprises. Now web, game, and mobile app developers can manage data stores on a scalable platform. "KuroBase is a cloud data platform that provides a high speed, low latency, cloud-based scalable and elastic platform for NoSQL databases" where customers can store data that will always be available when needed, according to the website. |
| ACS Completes Digitization Project |
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| The publications division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced the completed digitization of supporting information for its ACS Legacy Archives journals. ACS created files for 40,000 of its original research articles (adding up to 800,000 pages of supporting information data) in order to broaden its journals' online accessibility. ACS Legacy Archives offer almost 500,000 articles published between 1879 and 1995. |
| LPC Debuts Library Publishing Directory |
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| The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) published the first edition of its Library Publishing Directory, which provides an overview of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries. These libraries, located mostly in North America, provide the amount and types of the publications they produce, services for authors, staff and funding resources, and their plans for the future. The directory explores the value of library publishing, explaining its significance as a growing practice in the library community. |
| 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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