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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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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