New 2012 titles from Emerald Group Publishing

Emerald Group Publishing Limited has announced eight new journals scheduled for launch in 2012. These additional journals will publish high-quality research from emerging and fast-growing fields of study, including such areas as organizational ethnographies, entrepreneurship and sustainability

Evolutionary Applications to publish under Oopen access model

Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has announced that Evolutionary Applications has joined the Wiley Open Access publishing program. All newly published articles in the journal will be open access and free to view, download and share for non-commercial use

Podcast: Nineteenth century merchant seafarers and their records (UK)

Specialist knowledge of merchant seafaring is a boon when identifying men and women and interpreting their lives in one of the most sophisticated 19th and early 20th century sources increasingly used by family history researchers. This talk explains how a new website will help users understand and appreciate the potential of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen record series BT99. Valerie Burton is Chair of the Maritime History Research Unit at the Memorial University in St John's, Newfoundland. Dr Burton researches and teaches maritime history. She combines an interest in the economics of shipping with an emphasis on gender, class and ethnicity and 'new historical' approaches to narrative and identity. Her long involvement in facilitating public access to the records of merchant seafarers came to fruition with the Maritime History Archive website which is the subject of this talk

Bangladesh Journals OnLine

Bangladesh Journals OnLine is a service to provide access to Bangladesh published research, and increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship

LSE Digital Library (UK)

The Digital Library contains digitised material from LSE Library collections and also born-digital material that has been collected and preserved in digital formats

February 2012 batch of Early Reviewer books is up at LibraryThing

The February 2012 batch of Early Reviewer books is now available at LibraryThing. There are 2771 copies of 112 books available this month

Video: Reconfiguring Library Boundaries with Lorcan Dempsey

This video presentation was used to introduce the two-day workshop, "The Squeezed Middle: Exploring the Future of Library Systems," sponsored by JISC and SCONUL on 19-20 January at the University of Warwick. In the video, Lorcan Dempsey talks about how libraries are changing in the network environment, how they are organizing their services and how they are relating to other services in a Webscale world. He focuses on changes in how libraries are using their resources to create value: space, systems, collections and services/expertise. What should libraries specialize in and what things should they do collaboratively or externalize to other parties? Watch this video to learn how libraries are dealing with these and other important issues now as well as how they may do so in the future

Rhyming plea over library closures (UK)

Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson has penned a poem in protest at planned library closures. The writer, who was named Children's Laureate and awarded the MBE last year, said she had used libraries since she was a child and still visited her local branch to research and write her best-selling books. Her poem, released on Friday to mark National Libraries Day, describes them as places to "meet your heroes, old and new, from William the Conqueror to Winnie the Pooh"

Libraries help researchers save time, says new report

University libraries are saving academics time by helping them find quality material more quickly, says a new report. Academics are choosing the library as their first choice for getting hold of scholarly material because access is quick, it helps them make new connections to related information and the library may be the only place they can access that material. Academics are then using their reading to inspire new thinking and improve their research results. This picture of the library at the heart of university life has emerged as part of a new JISC Collections1 report which canvassed over 1000 academic and associate staff at six UK universities in 2011

New Lincolnshire parish records now live (UK)

Search 38,269 new Lincolnshire parish marriage records for 76,538 people on findmypast.co.uk. The records span the period 1699-1838 and will provide fresh information for those on the hunt for Lincolnshire ancestors

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

European Association of NeuroOncology Magazine

Amerika : Mémoires, Identités, Territoires

Anthropologie & Santé : Revue Internationale Francophone d'Anthropologie de la Santé

Iranian Journal of Pediatrics

Topologik : Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Filosofiche, Pedagogiche e Sociali

Research Journal of Social Science & Management

Oklahoma Native Plant Record

Journal of Pedagogic Development

E-News for ARL Directors - January 2012

E-News for ARL Directors - January 2012 is now available online from the Association of Research Libraries