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D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2012
Kalev H. Leetaru
Fulltext Geocoding Versus Spatial Metadata for Large Text Archives: Towards a Geographically Enriched Wikipedia The rise of "born geographic" information and the increasing creation and mediation of information in a spatial context has given rise to a demand for extracting and indexing the spatial information in large textual archives. mark for My Articles 36 similar articles
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2012
Stevan Harnad
United Kingdom's Open Access Policy Urgently Needs a Tweak The UK government, under the joint influence of the publisher lobby and short-sighted advice from Open Access (OA) advocates, has decided to make all UK research output OA within two years by diverting funds from UK research. mark for My Articles 162 similar articles
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2012
Carol Minton Morris
4,000+ Tweets Later: Looking Back at the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories Cameron Neylon, Director PLoS, began the Conference with a keynote address entitled Network Enabled Research that took a close look at what new kinds of networks mean for research. mark for My Articles 134 similar articles
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2012
Poole et al.
AERI 2012 Digital Curation Pre-Conference A digital curation pre-conference symposium was held at the University of California-Los Angeles in association with the Archival Education Research Initiative's AERI 2012. Seven digital curation experts from six institutions led the day's sessions. mark for My Articles 54 similar articles
Information Today
September 13, 2012
Europeana's Huge Cultural Dataset Opens for Free Re-Use For the first time, the metadata is released under the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication, meaning that anyone can use the data for any purpose -- creative, educational, commercial -- with no restrictions. mark for My Articles 29 similar articles
Information Today
September 13, 2012
Summon Discovery Service Expands Coverage of Open Access Scholarly Content Making these resources accessible through the library discovery interface broadens the number of highly relevant and appropriate results returned to researchers, while further making the library the "go-to" resource for credible content. mark for My Articles 544 similar articles
Information Today
September 10, 2012
Bowker Syndetics Solutions Adds Reviews VOYA and Quill and Quire Libraries who subscribe to Syndetics Solutions can add the reviews to the bibliographic data displayed to patrons through their OPAC or discovery layer, the most common entry points to the library collection. mark for My Articles 141 similar articles
Information Today
September 10, 2012
New Anthropology Databases Now Available via EBSCOhost Anthropological Index, Anthropological Literature, and Anthropology Plus, cover the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research. The three databases were formerly available from OCLC First Search. mark for My Articles 1 similar article
Information Today
September 10, 2012
OCLC's WebJunction Receives Operating Grant From The Gates Foundation OCLC received a $4.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support 5 years of ongoing operations of WebJunction, the learning place for libraries. mark for My Articles 424 similar articles
Chemistry World
September 7, 2012
Laura Howes
10 million open access boost UK Minister of State for Universities and Science, David Willetts, has today announced an additional investment of 10 million to help universities take up open access options. mark for My Articles 244 similar articles
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