Institutional repositories have grown in importance over the last 10 years to offer a core University and Library service. This development is putting pressure on staff resources and challenging the underlying software.
This webinar outlines these issues as well as look at how the needs and use of repositories may change in the future. The slides and the recording are now available online.
Couperin, the French consortium of academic libraries for e-publications, has signed in 2014 a five years agreement with Elsevier for a national licence allowing the French academic libraries to access about 2,000 journals. The reactions, highly contrasted, have been collected in an article. (in French)
The SWIB conference aims to provide substantial information on linked open data (LOD) developments relevant to the library world and to foster the exchange of ideas and experiences among practitioners.
The latest edition was held in Bonn (Germany), 1st-3rd december 2014.
The slides and the videos related are now available.
What are the requirements for the inclusion of a publication in Europeana? Susan Muthalaly, editorial and PR officer of the European portal recalls the methods and documents used to improve the quality of its data.
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.
