Digital information is fundamentally reshaping the production, dissemination, use and re-use of information and knowledge in society. In order to play a prominent role within the knowledge society, heritage institutions are investing in digital preservation methods and technologies to ensure long-term accessibility to their digital collections and holdings.
Academic contents have evolved and diversified, as well as the way they are delivered. Their transformation present a direct challenge to the role of libraries, in terms of workflows, staffing, budgets. Contents aquisition have become user-driven, and publisher-librarian relationships have evolved. If traditional professional skills are still relevant, they are being exploited differently, and the need to develop new skills has become obvious.
The French consortium COUPERIN (Academic Consortium for Electronic Publications) launched a nationwide survey in 2014 to explore whether and how academic social networks are used to share content. This survey gives general tendencies, considering the behaviour and opinions according to the different disciplinary communities and their research practices. As a result, the main characteristics of an ideal tool dedicated to Open Science can be defined.
The success of the implementation of Open Access policies depends on a broad and diverse landscape of services. A new report entitled Putting down roots: Securing the future of open access policies from Knowledge Exchange details currently essential OA infrastructure and services (OpenAIRE amongst them) and seeks dialogue on their future maintenance, security and development.
ROAD, the Directory of scholarly Open Access Resources, provides a free access to the ISSN bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in Open Access. This service was presented at the seminar Discovery and Discoverability held at University College London in January 2016.
All the presentations are now online, and will give you an overview of the latest experiences from libraries and publishers innovations in delivering content.
The German National Library (DNB) has been collecting the digital versions of daily newspapers since 2010.
The German National Library developed an automatic process to collect the editions of 1,193 daily newspapers from the publishers’ servers to enter them into the German National Library’s catalogue and archive systems. In January 2016, the users of the German National Library were able to access, from the reading rooms, to roughly 1 million issues containing over 44 million pages online. Approximately 30,000 new issues containing more than 1,2 million pages are added each month.
Search for e-papers in the catalogue of the German National Library
The new amendments to the Copyright Act allow the NLA to collect everything, from e-books to blogs, websites to social media. Under the new provisions, Australia will protect the digital record in the same way as it always has for print. From now on, publishers and authors can upload electronic books, journals, magazines and newsletters through the NLA’s website.
The University of Liège bases its Open Repository and Bibliography Institutional directory on the “mandat à la liègeoise“. This mandate makes compulsory the deposit of publications that matches a powerful incentive, since only publications deposited on ORBI are taken into account in the evaluation within this university. (Article in French)
Ex Libris has formed a program to help Ex Libris harness Linked Data technology in its resource management and discovery solutions. The Linked Data Collaboration Program aims to ensure that Linked Data will best fit the needs, use cases, and future plans of the academic community.
The Europeana Publishing Framework sets out four scenarios for sharing collections with Europeana. It clarifies the relationship between Europeana and the data partners.
