Since the start of 2014, several French Universities have cancelled their subscriptions to notorious scientific journals and databases because of the combined effect of budget cuts and important price increases. Researchers, although comprehensive, are worried.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the British Library are launching a two-year research project which will explore the future of academic books in the context of open access publishing and continuing digital change.
OCLC Research has released a new report, “Understanding the Collective Collection: Towards a System-wide Perspective on Library Print Collections”. One important trend is that libraries and library service providers will devote more attention to system-wide organization of collections —whether the “system” is a consortium, a region or a country.
Trends and challenges for the libraries in 2014: ebooks lending, new technologies, services platforms, etc.
Challenges and perspectives for 2014 by the UKSG commitee members (metadata, open access, universities’ initiatives,etc)
The main challenges of the digital preservation: research data management, digital preservation policies, financial resources.
2.7 million pages have recently been made available via the catalogue of the German National Library for free re-use and research and information purposes. Full-text searches can be performed in these documents.
Vast amounts of information and data are being generated every day through government, academic, economic and social activities. Text and data mining has emerged as a significant tool to assist individuals and institutions identify patterns, trends and anomalies in data, and to develop new efficiencies and forms of knowledge.
The document itself is available at this link.
Since 1st January 2014, all the metadata issued from the BnF catalogues (more than 12 million bibliographic records) are freely available, even for a commercial use.
The latest in the Digital Preservation Coalition’s (DPC) series of Technology Watch Reports has been released on 30th October.
It discusses the critical issues of preservation, trust and continuing access for e-journals, particularly in light of the dynamic and interdependent resources they have become, as well as the ever-growing trend towards open-access.
