EBSCO Information Services announced a new policy on metadata sharing that will make all metadata for 129 of its full-text databases, more than 550,000 ebooks and more than 70 historical digital archives available to third-party discovery services.
Many professors and students gravitate to Google as a gateway to research. Libraries want to offer them a comparably simple and broad experience for searching academic content. As a result, a major change is under way in how libraries organise information.
A draft version of the European Commission’s impact assessment on copyright reform is circulating online. Whilst the final report is to be published, Paul Keller, Vice Chair of Kennisland shares his thoughts on this crucial document.
The European Union has blocked the discussions at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR). The libraries and archives organisations present at the 27th meeting of the SCCR have put on a joint press release, expressing their frustration and disappointment with the EU, and rallying European libraries and archives to reach out to their policy makers asking the EU to take a more nuanced approach to the discussions.
Dansk Bibliotekscenter (DBC) is partnering with OCLC to synchronize DANBIB, the Danish national union catalogue, with WorldCat, making real-time updates that will result in faster visibility of the collections around the world through leading websites and search engines.
Helen Adey, Resource Acquisitions & Supply Team Manager at Nottingham Trent University, gives an insight on her university’s different approach of serial reviews.
OCLC has made 197 million bibliographic work descriptions—WorldCat Works—available as linked data, a format native to the Web that will improve discovery of library collections through a variety of popular sites and Web services.
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the process of identifying and classifying entities such as persons, locations and organisations in the full-text in order to enhance searchability. The KB National Library of the Netherlands is the Europeana Newspapers project partner and works as the NER specialist. Clemens Neudecker, Technical Coordinator KB research department talks about this process.
Interview with Toine Pieters, Professor at the Utrecht University, on the interest for researchers of the recent newspaper digitalizations projects .
Universities in Myanmar have been given e-libraries with hundreds of thousands of digital books and academic journals to help them catch up after decades of isolation under military rule.
