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Metadata and the metadata services that describe library collections are critical in supporting content discovery, knowledge creation, and libraries' public missions. Metadata describing library collections is not typically copyrightable, and should be considered freely shareable and reusable under most circumstances. However, some industry players restrict libraries' rights to use such metadata through contractual terms and market influence. Such restrictive activity is out of alignment with libraries' needs and public, not-for-profit/educational missions.
Posted 15 September 2022
The Getty Trust commits $30 million to digitize the Johnson Publishing Company archive, which features more than 4 million prints and negatives that chronicle 20th-century Black life.
Posted 6 September 2022
Oxford University Press announced the migration of its book content to Oxford Academic—the online platform for its academic research—and, separately, announced the expansion of its agreement with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) to make its content more accessible.
Posted 6 September 2022
In an 8 page memo titled "Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research", issued on 25 August 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy directed federal agencies to begin adopting policies that would make taxpayer-funded research free and accessible to the general public.
Posted 6 September 2022
The tribute is in 3 languages, authored by marie lebert and illustrated by Denis Renard
Posted 26 August 2022
The IFLA/UNESCO Public Library Manifesto proclaims UNESCO's belief in the public library as a living force for education, culture and information, and as an essential agent for the fostering of peace and welfare through the minds of all people.
Posted 2 August 2022
In recognition of the challenges around information contract management, user access and entitlements, data licensing and copyright compliance, Couranto and CCC (Copyright Clearance Center) are partnering to further advance the working knowledge related to copyright compliance through practical information solutions.
Posted 2 August 2022
Springshare and PowerNotes announced that the LibChat library chat is now seamlessly integrated with PowerNotes, a tool designed specifically to manage the entire academic research process from discovery through writing.
Posted 2 August 2022
Bloomsbury Publishing, which acquired ABC-Clio and Libraries Unlimited in January 2022, has relaunched its Cite Them Right site.
Posted 5 July 2022
On June 13, 2022, OCLC filed suit against Clarivate PLC and its subsidiaries, Clarivate Analytics (US) LLP, Ex Libris, and ProQuest in the United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio.
Posted 16 June 2022
The database will offer equitable perspectives on U.K. and Ireland current events.
Posted 7 June 2022
Google now links search results directly to records of print books in hundreds of libraries using WorldCat data
Posted 3 May 2022
Recognizing that information these days comes to us from an enormous number of sources and different directions, Google's new fact checking features helps searchers sort out what information is credible and what isn't.
Posted 5 April 2022
Bite-sized ILI is back for 2022! Save the date of Wednesday, 11 May 2022, for Internet Librarian International's latest half day of learning and knowledge exchange.
Posted 5 April 2022
The integration of Scopus data will support the monitoring and evaluation of Germany's transition towards open access.
Posted 5 April 2022
CASRAI (Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information), founded in 2006 as an international, non-profit membership organisation with the main aim to reduce the administrative burden associated with, the process of collecting information from researchers during the research lifecycle ceased operations in 2020. . The future of its resources are now secured through arrangements with CODATA, euroCRIS and NISO.
Posted 5 April 2022
A new partnership between IOP Publishing and Get Full Text Research aims to make access to information easier for researchers.
Posted 5 April 2022
The Open Preservation Foundation published, on 4 April 2022, a new resource that enables users to compare accepted and preferred file formats at a high level across different types of cultural and scientific institutions across the world.
Posted 4 April 2022
EthicsFinder, hosted by Australian Catholic University, features expertly curated information on topics of interest to researchers in the field of ethics.
Posted 1 March 2022
The acquisition includes Informa's full portfolio of specialist brands which includes the Citeline suite of products, Trialtrove, Sitetrove, Pharmaprojects and Citeline branded products, as well as Biomedtracker, Clinerion, Datamonitor Healthcare, Pink Sheet, Scrip, Skipta, and TrialScope. The acquisition is expected to complete within the first half of 2022, subject to any relevant regulatory clearances. Its publications and data are well represented in Dow Jones Factiva and LexisNexis
Posted 1 March 2022
For the foodies and food researchers among us, EBSCO now has extensive full-text coverage of food and nutrition resources available
Posted 1 March 2022
The updated Trend Report 2021 is based on ideas submitted by emerging library leaders ahead of the 2021 World Library and Information Congress to be held in Dublin, Ireland, in July 2022 and features 20 suggested trends.
Posted 1 February 2022
The new report provides new insights for building a successful AI ecosystem, based on data from Clarivate databases.
Posted 5 January 2022
VR experience demonstrates benefits of immersive learning for soft skills training in higher education.
Posted 5 January 2022
In its latest list, Clarivate identifies the one in 1,000 "citation elite". Although researchers based in the USA dominate, China has nearly doubled its share of highly cited researchers in four years.
Posted 7 December 2021
The features are designed to help conference organizers around the globe provide advanced audience engagement, combat digital fatigue, and improve the marketability of their event.
Posted 7 December 2021
Lean Library, a browser extension from SAGE Publishing that delivers library services into the patron's workflow, is partnering with TDNet, provider of TDNet Discover, a unified library discovery and content management solution. Together, Lean Library and TDNet will provide libraries with the ability to deliver their library search results to patrons ‘in their workflow' on academic resources and websites such as Google and Wikipedia.
Posted 2 November 2021
COPIM funding pilot for OA monographs gathers steam
Posted 2 November 2021
The latest MUSE in Focus: Humanity's "Code Red" on Climate Change is now available
Posted 5 October 2021
Smart academic seminar platform creates an accelerated and early route to communicating scholarly research
Posted 7 September 2021
In a year of exceptional growth of the ISSN Network, the ISSN International Centre is delighted to announce the opening of the 93rd ISSN National Centre in Lima, Peru, on August 24th, 2021, almost exactly 200 years after the founding of the National Library of Peru, which houses the Centre.
Posted 7 September 2021
Even if you know nothing about the topic of "Adjacent Cell Marker Lateral Spillover Compensation and Reinforcement for Multiplexed Images", this research article from Front. Immunol., 05 July 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.652631 authored by Yunhao Bai1,2†, Bokai Zhu1,3†, Xavier Rovira-Clave1, Han Chen1, Maxim Markovic1, Chi Ngai Chan4, Tung-Hung Su1,5, David R. McIlwain1, Jacob D. Estes4, Leeat Keren1,6, Garry P. Nolan1*‡ and Sizun Jiang1,7*‡ will make you laugh if you ready only the note about author contributions:
Posted 12 August 2021
In relation to Clarivate's previously announced acquisition (the "Acquisition") of ProQuest ("ProQuest"), on July 28, 2021, Clarivate received a second request for documents and other information from the Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC"), which is reviewing the Acquisition pursuant to authority under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976. In view of the FTC's second request, on July 28, 2021, Clarivate and the equity holders of ProQuest (collectively, the "Seller Group") entered into an amendment (the "Amendment") to their Transaction Agreement dated May 15, 2021, extending the outside date for completion of the Acquisition from November 8, 2021 to December 31, 2021, subject to further extension. Although the Company hopes to be in a position to complete the proposed Acquisition in the second half of 2021, the Company and the Seller Group each have the option to extend the new outside date to April 29, 2022. (https://ir.clarivate.com/news-events/press-releases/news-details/2021/Clarivate-Announces-Private-Exchange-Offers-for-Two-Series-of-Notes-Open-to-Certain-Investors/default.aspx)
Posted 10 August 2021
As part of a long-term strategy by Clarivate to remove friction from IP management processes by connecting the IP ecosystem, Clavivate Plc plans to integrate its trademark portfolio databases. It says this will reduce manual data entry efforts to help customers save time and increase data quality.
Posted 3 August 2021
Two Google initiatives over the past few months resonate particularly well with information professionals. Google Scholar added a "Public access" section to track and manage public access mandates and Google Search can now detect when a topic is rapidly evolving and warn people to check back late.
Posted 6 July 2021
Web Audio API enables the creation and manipulation of music and sounds, directly in the browser
Posted 6 July 2021
CLIR has become the administrative home of the International Internet Preservation Consortium with the move of its senior program officer, Olga Holownia, to the CLIR staff. Founded in 2003, the IIPC is an international organization of member institutions from more than 35 countries that work to collect, preserve, and make accessible knowledge from the global web. Its activities include providing a forum for the sharing of knowledge about web archiving, collaborating on research and development projects, funding technical, curatorial, and educational projects, managing working groups, and convening the annual Web Archiving Conference and General Assembly.
Posted 1 June 2021
Quartex, an Adam Matthew Digital SaaS platform, announced the launch of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) Transcription, which creates automated, fully searchable transcriptions of manuscript assets with a single click.
Posted 1 June 2021
DeepDyve announced the availability of the DeepDyve Digital Library, a fully integrated platform aimed at helping research organisations discover, access and manage research papers. The Digital Library is a one-stop platform designed for small to medium-sized teams and organizations needing easy and affordable solutions for reading and organizing scientific papers. Although the press release states that this product doesn't need information professionals or IT staff, it should be on the radar screen of librarians, particularly those in smaller, poorly-funded institutions and companies.
Posted 4 May 2021
An April 2021 Working Paper (2021-6), published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, details some results of investing in public libraries. Researchers from Montana State University, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Miami University investigated outcomes of local government spending on public libraries in regard to library resources, patron usage, student achievement and local housing prices.
Posted 4 May 2021
The goal of Google News Initiative is to support news organizations around the world to not only ensure that quality journalism endures but also to fight against misinformation and disinformation. It provides training and funding towards that end. Three recent projects benefit not only journalism but also the essential need for access to information that is trustworthy, reliable and complete.
Posted 6 April 2021
An unprecedented digitization program makes out-of-print works by George L. Hersey, Richard Freedman, Mark Jarzombek, Moshe Safdie, Peter Rowe, Galen Cranz, Arthur Pulos, Gilbert Hubert, and others now available as ebooks for the first time.
Posted 6 April 2021
The European Commission launched Open Research Europe, a publishing platform for scientific papers that will be accessible to everyone. The platform will present the results of research funded by Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme for 2021-2027, and its predecessor, Horizon 2020.
Posted 6 April 2021
The first module of Gale's new Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence explores the history of British Intelligence during an era of global conflict and careful diplomacy, of the rise and fall of political extremes, of great strides in technology and of vast change in the everyday lives of people around the world.
Posted 6 April 2021
The United Nations SDG Publishers Compact, established at the end of 2020, encourages scholarly publishers in their activities to speed up progress towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Posted 1 March 2021
RBmedia, the largest audiobook producer in the world, has expanded its Spanish-language content by acquiring Booka's audiobook publishing business and its full catalog of Spanish language titles.
Posted 1 March 2021
Need to take a bite out of your taxonomy efforts? Taxonomy Bootcamp London, a sister conference to Internet Librarian International, is hosting a Bite-sized version on 2 March 2021.
Posted 2 February 2021
ProQuest announced in mild-January the launch of ProQuest One Business, which it describes as a new solution designed to support the unique teaching and learning needs of business faculty and students, both at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Posted 2 February 2021
Yewno, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence solutions, announced the enhancement of the Yewno Discover research platform to include news content.
Posted 5 January 2021
Suite of solutions designed to improve patient-centered outcomes, increase patient engagement and support value-based care
Posted 5 January 2021
IFLA's Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (CPDWL) Section and New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) announced the winners of their library meme contest.
Posted 12 December 2020
Partnership Offers Libraries in Germany More Options when Considering Adopting the FOLIO Library Services Platform
Posted 1 December 2020
The Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) Inspec database has reached over 20 million indexed records throughout its 50-year history.
Posted 1 December 2020
The London Book Fair Moves to June 2021, with Andy Ventris Announced as New Director, with the aim of bringing the publishing industry together in person for first time since the outbreak of Covid-19.
Posted 16 November 2020
Law firms around the world can now expand their legal research by uploading their own documents to vLex Cloud and combine their knowledge with vLex's global collection of legal information to create a research resource personalised to the needs of the firm and their clients.
Posted 3 November 2020
The Yewno Discover platform now integrates with the Ex Libris Primo discovery service to offer libraries the opportunity to create additional exploration paths for their students.
Posted 3 November 2020
The Next Generation Library Publishing project has published a report that seeks to improve the publishing pathways and choices available to authors, editors and readers
Posted 3 November 2020
WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organization) launched WIPO Lex-Judgments, a new database that provides free access to leading judicial decisions related to intellectual property law, worldwide.
Posted 6 October 2020
Elsevier published a landmark report on The Power of Research to Advance the SDGs. It strengthens the understanding of the global SDG efforts and identifies the lack of sex and gender dimension across SDG research.
Posted 6 October 2020
The Educational Publishers Enforcement Group (EPEG) publishers, consisting of Cengage, Elsevier, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill and Pearson, have obtained a Preliminary Injunction from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against 63 eBook websites that sell illegal, unlicensed eBooks using the functionalities of Google and Microsoft.
Posted 6 October 2020
A freely available toolkit helps academic book authors to better understand open access book publishing.
Posted 6 October 2020
Clarivate Plc launched the Arabic Citation Index (ARCI), the world's first local language citation index.
Posted 1 September 2020
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and Stanford Libraries have released a public, open platform for the Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME). It will be one of the world's largest online archives of Middle Eastern and North African artifacts. The DLME aggregates, through an ongoing program, digital records of published materials, documents, maps, artifacts, audiovisual recordings, and more from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Posted 1 September 2020
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) and OpenAPC are expanding the OpenAPC dataset to support the inclusion of Book Processing Charges (BPCs)
Posted 4 August 2020
Clarivate Plc , known in library circules for the Web of Science, Cortellis, Derwent, CompuMark, MarkMonitor and Techstreet, signed a definitive agreement to combine with CPA Global, a global leader in intellectual property software and tech-enabled services.
Posted 4 August 2020
Elsevier released the 2019 CiteScore values, its latest assessment of thousands of peer-reviewed research journals, book series, conference proceedings and trade publications covered in Scopus.
Posted 7 July 2020
The UK electronic information Group (UKeiG) is now publishing its eLucidate journal on a new web platform, using the Public Knowledge Project's Open Journal Systems (OJS) hosted by the University of Alberta.
Posted 7 July 2020
Library innovation conference highlights 2020 theme of ‘Strategies, solutions, stories, and strength'
Posted 9 March 2020
Get it Loud in Libraries brings live music to local libraries, large and small.
Posted 19 September 2018
A Storify of Tweets using the #ILI2017 hashtag on Day 2 of Internet Librarian International.
Posted 20 October 2017
A Storify of Tweets using the #ILI2017 hashtag on Day 1 of Internet Librarian International.
Posted 19 October 2017
Speaker submissions sought for the Library Innovation Conference, with the theme of 'Super-Powered Libraries: innovation, influence, impact'.
Posted 24 February 2017
Streaming videos illustrate social science research methods and statistics
Posted 5 November 2016
Stuart Hamilton, Mia Ridge and Jan Holmquist to speak at Internet Librarian International, the library innovation conference.
Posted 18 July 2016
New conference covering all aspects of taxonomy to take place alongside ILI.
Posted 18 April 2016
Free access to a range of resources to help fight Zika virus.
Posted 11 March 2016
Education delivered via inexpensive smartphones can support new students, ensure lifelong learning, and transform the lives of girls and women.
Posted 10 March 2016
Full-text articles on nature.com will continue to be made available to read and share as content sharing initiative becomes permanent
Posted 21 December 2015
Integration aims to enrich current products and innovate new services
Posted 21 December 2015
Harvard teams up with Ravel Law to provide free access to digitised US case law.
Posted 21 December 2015
WSJ City will be free at launch.
Posted 10 October 2015
New platform will help devices connect via the cloud.
Posted 10 October 2015
Deal expected to be finalised later in 2015.
Posted 10 October 2015
The growth of connected devices is already bringing organisational and public economic benefits in the UK, according to a new report from Cisco.
Posted 21 April 2014
Find out more about speakers and sessions developed to help you understand how your users search, and how to respond by building and implementing an effective search strategy in your organisation.
Posted 3 April 2014
AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel drive industry ecosystem to accelerate more reliable access to big data, and drive the development of the Internet of Things
Posted 3 April 2014
The New York Times digital subscription model has been announced, and widely debated.
Posted 18 March 2011
Copyright law in Europe is evolving at a 'dazzling pace' and more change is expected.
Posted 18 March 2011
French authors and publishers have failed to reach an agreement regarding electronic rights.
Posted 17 March 2011
The European Information Association has announced the winners of its awards for Excellence in European Information Provision.
Posted 16 March 2011
The microblogging service celebrates its birthday by blogging some boggling statistics.
Posted 15 March 2011
Metadata from ECONIS—the online catalogue for the German National Library of Economics—will be searchable through EBSCO Discovery Service
Posted 9 December 2010
ProQuest and Hatfield House team up to bring private and political documents gathered by Elizabeth I's advisors to the web
Posted 8 December 2010
Library Systems Manager from University of Huddersfield selected for honour
Posted 1 December 2010
Provides information on investment and acquisition opportunities in China
Posted 1 December 2010
New product line will expand ebook offering on SpringerLink
Posted 1 December 2010
'Instant Previews' provides a graphic overview of search results; 'Refine' is 'a power tool for data wranglers'
Posted 16 November 2010