Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series V : Economic Sciences

International Journal of ePortfolio

Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Journal of Clinical and Analytical Medicine

Journal of Experimental and Integrative Medicine

Future Studies Research Journal : Trends and Strategies

Revista Geográfica de América Central

European Journal of Remote Sensing

Research Journal of Pure Algebra

Journal of Anthropology

Journal of Blood Transfusion

Moringa : Artes do Espetáculo

Textpraxis : Digitales Journal für Philologie

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Research

Plant Science Feed

Algae

The Scientific World Journal

European Journal of Economic and Political Studies

Book Grocer: 28 March to 3 April, 2012

Book Grocer: 28 March to 3 April, 2012 - The week ahead in literary London from the Londonist blog. #books #London

Index on Censorship celebrates 40 years with 40 days of free access

SAGE celebrates Index on Censorship's 40th anniversary with free access to the magazine's historic archive for 40 days, from 26 March until 4 May. After that date, the archive from 1972-2010 will remain free for the rest of the year

InSITE: A Current Awareness Service of Cornell Law Library - Vol. 17, No. 12, March 26, 2012

InSITE: A Current Awareness Service of Cornell Law Library - Vol. 17, No. 12, March 26, 2012 is now available. Contents:

# Citizen Media Law Project
# CourtWeb: Online Federal Court Opinions Information System
# WomanStats Project

ABC releases landmark archival film footage under Creative Commons (Australia)

This year, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is turning 80 years old. To celebrate, the ABC has launched a new website called "80 Days That Changed Our Lives", giving 80 pieces of audio visual content from the ABC archives a new lease on life. This content includes news reports and interviews recording key moments in Australian history

Springer launches new platform for the corporate sector: Springer for R&D

Springer Science+Business Media has launched a new corporate platform, Springer for R&D, which provides access to over 5.6 million research documents, all optimized for specific corporate markets. Springer for R&D aims to become the primary resource destination for all new corporate and medical customers. All articles in Springer for R&D are taken from Springer's online platform SpringerLink, which will remain in its existing form serving the academic community

Discover more than 300,000 naturalisation records (UK)

It is now easier than ever to search naturalisation records at The National Archives, following the successful completion of a cataloguing project. Staff at Kew have added more than 300,000 individual item level descriptions to the HO 334 record series, which contains duplicate naturalisation certificates issued between 1870 and 1980. Where duplicate certificates were not kept, between 1969 and 1980, descriptions have been added to the indexes in HO 409 instead. By working from the original records, the project has unearthed several hundred certificates not previously indexed, mainly for military service personnel who obtained British citizenship without applying directly to the Home Office

Librarians, authors join forces at read-in (Canada)

Local 4948's striking library workers held a reading event outside the Toronto Reference Library, with help from local authors

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog - March 26, 2012 update

The March 26, 2012 edition of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog from Charles W. Bailey, Jr. is now available. It provides information about new works related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, e-prints, journal articles, magazine articles, technical reports, and white papers

Tenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities (Canada)

Tenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities - Montréal, Canada 14 to 16 June 2012. The Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that make up the humanities today. Plenary speakers will include some of the world's leading thinkers in the humanities, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by teachers and researchers. The 2012 conference will address the Special Theme - Looking Forward: Humanities for the Future

Trends in Developing and Managing E-Resources in Libraries conference (India)

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) is organizing two day National Conference on "Trends in Developing and Managing E-Resources in Libraries", scheduled to be held "during 3rd week of May 20012. The following themes have been identified:

* Types of e-resources and its utilities;
* Mandatory requirement v/s subscription of e-resources,;
* Policies, selection and budgeting of e-resources;
* Latest trends in collection development of e-resources;
* Competitive skills and techniques of professionals in organizing e-resources;
* Tools and techniques in organizing e-resources;
* Organization of e-resources using Open Source Software (OSS);
* Need for management of e-resources;
* Challenges, methods and impacts of e-resources;
* Strategic planning and management of e-resources;
* Provision to access virtual e-resources;
* Effective usage of e-resources;
* Optimum usage of e-resources;
* Access patterns of e-resources using remote web portals; and
* Selecting patterns of e-resources for academic/research pursuits

1.3 million Westminster parish records published at findmypast.co.uk

findmypast.co.uk writes: Today we have published more than 1.3 million parish records for Westminster on findmypast.co.uk The records cover the vast period 1538-1945, making them a historical goldmine for those with London ancestors. We have made these records available online for the first time. More than 50 Westminster churches are included in the records published today, including St Anne, Soho, St Clement Danes, St George Hanover Square, St James Westminster, St Margaret Westminster, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Mary-le-Strand and St Paul Covent Garden

Elsevier to publish Czech Society of Cardiology flagship journal Cor et Vasa

Elsevier and the Czech Society of Cardiology and Czech Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, have announced the re-launch of journal Cor et Vasa. Cor et Vasa is the official journal of the Czech Society of Cardiology, which was the first to publish breakthrough guidelines for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction recommending primary angioplasty as first choice therapy. It is open to all novel research in the field of cardiology and is recognized as a distinct international research forum gaining significant interest and contributions from all Central and Easter European countries

UK's largest music and drama lending library saved by campaigners

New homes found for Yorkshire Music and Drama Service's 500,000 scores and 90,000 scripts after appeals from thousands of choirs, orchestras and drama groups

Shortlist of companies bidding to run Croydon libraries revealed (UK)

The five shortlisted bidders to run library services in Croydon have been revealed. Along with Wandsworth Council, the local authority has been working to find a partner to take control of its libraries. The five shortlisted companies are understood to be LSSI, Civica, Essex County Council, Greenwich Leisure Trust and John Laing. LSSI (Library Systems and Services) are an American company set up in 1981 who run 17 public libraries in the US. It has stated it wants to move into the UK market and has said it is committed to working with local councils

M&S Company Archive (UK)

To celebrate the 100th birthday of Marks & Spencer in 1984, the Company took the opportunity to look back with pride at its long history. We decided to collect together the many historical items from all over the Company and create the M&S Company Archive. Since then, the archive team has worked to collect, catalogue and make available for use, all kinds of records of Marks & Spencer's past. Today the archive contains more than 70,000 items from the last 128 years, and we welcome new additions to our collection

Exeter Cathedral: How do you move 70,000 archives? (UK)

Exeter Cathedral is getting ready to open a new centre to keep all its archives in one place. But how do you move thousands of documents, some of which date back to 1050? "We've got 70,000 books, documents and records, although it's more than that figure when you put the archives together," Canon librarian Ann Barwood said. "They were in different locations - above the refectory, the library, one collection up at the university and then the other collection in the west wing of the palace." The cathedral has invested £1.5m in refurbishing the West Wing of the Bishop's Palace to store its archives and run workshops, but Ms Barwood said the money was "neither here nor there" when it came to preserving the cathedral's history. "It was important that we could preserve them fully and properly, otherwise they may as well have gone into the skip."

Wiley-VCH and ACES to launch organic chemistry journal rooted in Asia

Wiley-VCH, part of the scientific and technical publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and the Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES) have announced the launch of the Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, the second pan-Asia society chemistry journal after Chemistry - An Asian Journal, launched by ACES and Wiley-VCH in 2006

Internet Librarian International 2012 (UK) - call for speakers

Internet Librarian International 2012 will take place at Olympia in London 30-31 October (with pre-event workshops scheduled for 29 October). We invite participation from a wide range of professionals - new and established - from all over the world to share their experiences of developing and delivering innovative information services. We seek dynamic speakers from all types of libraries - public, academic, government, national or commercial - as well as those working outside a ‘traditional’ library setting. The deadline for submissions is 12 April 2012

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

Interscientific Health Care

Strategic Leadership Review