The 34th Annual Charleston Conference was held in Charleston, United States, November 5-8 2014. This year’s theme was “Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition”.
On this occasion, François-Xavier Pellegrin, Head of the data section at the ISSN International Centre, gave a presentation of ROAD, the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources.
The presentations and the highlights are now available online.
The 2014 Europeana Annual General Meeting took place on October 30-31, 2014 at the Museo Nacional Del Prado in Madrid.
Several slide presentations from the 8th annual general meeting event are now online.
The paper reports on a number of innovative solutions which have been adopted in taking the Newspaper Programme forward – in particular in relation to digitization funding models, storage solutions, onsite service provision, and accessibility – and as such it provides a case study in national library innovation.
The Ministry of Research will pay 172 million euros to leading global scientific publisher, Elsevier in order to redeem five years of publications already paid by the taxpayer. These publications will only be available for their authors.
Article and complete agreement in French.
One of the world’s most important historic book collections, from the Austrian National Library (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, www.onb.ac.at), will be made freely available to the public via Europeana.eu. thanks to the library’s digitisation programme and Europeana’s introduction of a new rights statement.
Okanagan College Library incorporated Google Analytics into their discovery service in order to go beyond vendor-supplied quantitative data and obtain valuable qualitative information about users. This information can now be used to shape library services such as collection development, public services and interface design.
How demand-driven acquisitions (DDA) has affected the university press community.
Update on the Europeana Newspapers Project: goals, new features, new partners, etc.
A group of professionals from libraries, content providers and OCLC have published “Success Strategies for Electronic Content Discovery and Access”.
This document identifies data quality issues in the content supply chain and offers practical recommendations for improved usage, discovery and access of e-content in libraries.
This international, multi-stakeholder working group will develop a strategy to ensure greater interoperability across repository networks and other platforms. The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) will be the convener of the working group, and the Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI) will facilitate the process of developing the strategy. Members of the working group will be representatives from major regional repository networks, EuroCRIS and CASRAI, and will be committed to adopting the outcomes.
