Europeana now includes more than one million newspaper articles from the Spanish aggregator Hispana that are correctly labelled as being in the Public Domain. These newspapers were digitised and made available as part of the Virtual Library of Historical Newspapers project.
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) submitted a response to the Public Consultation on the Review of EU Copyright Rules. IFLA believes a balanced copyright reform should provide sufficient protections for EU creative industries without restricting essential research and development, and access to information in the public interest.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has announced the final form of the Open Access policy that will apply to research outputs. This policy requires all journal articles and peer-reviewed conference papers to be deposited in a repository at the time of acceptance for publication, and made Open Access as soon as possible.
This paper explores the concept of agile management, revealing multiple meanings for the term. Notable innovations and developments in Australian university libraries reflect conscious (or possibly not) applications of agile management techniques.
The “Association des Bibliothécaires de France” (ABF) has launched a geotagged map of the libraries in the world. This contributive project will be presented at the IFLA Conference 2014.
In this publication experts explain the beneficial value of Authority Files with regards to discovery, trust and reliability, accountability, transactional efficiency, for knowledge creation. The ISSN is described among other identifiers as well as the ROAD project.
The Guidelines to compare Institutional Repository Software is being published as part of the UNESCO’s Open Access Strategy. It compares the features of the major platforms and is intended to help libraries focus on which features will help facilitate the success of their repository.
Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist at the Library of Congress tries to disambiguate what we mean by “archive” by providing a description of the word’s different acceptations.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) awarded a new patent in February for a system which will enable libraries to sell ebooks to patrons.
Most books published in Norway before 2001 are going online for free thanks to an initiative that may have found the formula to reconcile authors with the web.
The National Library of Norway, responsible of this unprecedented project, is digitising tens of thousands of titles. Even the copyright-protected books will be available free online – with the consent of the copyright holders – at the website bokhylla.no.
