Free online access to all SAGE journals October 1-31, 2008

"Earlier this year SAGE celebrated the launch of the 500th journal site on the award-winning SAGE Journals Online platform. SAGE Journals Online provides users access to one of the largest databases of social science, humanities, and science, technical, and medical content in the world. More than 245 societies place their trust in us to provide their journals with the best possible online platform. To mark the occasion SAGE are offering free online access to over 500 SAGE journals with content available from 1999-date until October 31, 2008"

IFLA Journal - October 2008

IFLA Journal - Volume 34, Number 3, October 2008, is now available

Resource of the Month from Ovid - October 2008

"Each month, Ovid's Resource of the Month program allows you to "test drive" different products for free. This month's resource: GEOBASE - a unique multidisciplinary database supplying bibliographic information and abstracts for development studies, the Earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography, and oceanography"

ChemSynthesis

ChemSynthesis is a freely accessible database of chemicals. This website contains substances with their synthesis references and physical properties such as melting point, boiling point and density. There are currently more than 40 000 compounds and more than 45 000 synthesis references in the database

International School Library Day UK

International School Library Day - "This year we will again be encouraging our members to celebrate International School Libraries Day which will be on 6th October 2008 in the UK. The theme for this year will be Literacy and Learning at your School Library" - 6 October 2008

October talks at The National Archives (UK)

"In October, The National Archives (UK) hosts a number of fascinating free events and talks where specialists will share their knowledge and offer useful advice on research and best practice for using the archives. With subjects as diverse as Magna Carta and King John to Britain's changing relationship with the European Community, these talks provide a valuable insight into key historical events and issues"

2008 Guardian Children's fiction prize winner

The winner of the 2008 Guardian Children's fiction prize is Patrick Ness for The Knife of Letting Go

American Library Association updates website

The American Library Association has updated its website with a new format and improved functionality

University of Michigan at forefront of new era in publishing

"With the installation of a state-of-the-art book-printing machine at one of its libraries, the University of Michigan stands at the new frontier of 21st-century publishing, offering printed and bound reprints of out-of-copyright books from its digitized collection of nearly 2 million books, as well as thousands of books from the Open Content Alliance and other digital sources"

Libraries Unleashed

Libraries Unleashed is a microsite published in the Education section of The Guardian, UK

Cats in Books - A Celebration of Cat Illustration through the Ages

"On 26 September 2008, the British Library published a lavishly illustrated volume featuring some of the finest depictions of cats as they have appeared in books over the centuries. Some, like Sir John Tenniel's classic Cheshire Cat from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, are well known, while other unique and less familiar images of cats are reproduced from treasured British Library manuscripts, including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Luttrell Psalter"

Wiley-Blackwell to publish British Journal of Pharmacology

Wiley-Blackwell has announced that it has won the rights to publish the British Journal of Pharmacology, the official journal of the British Pharmacological Society, effective January 1, 2009. The Company already publishes the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology on behalf of the Society

ARL: A Bimonthly Report - August 2008

ARL: A Bimonthly Report, no. 259 (August 2008) is now available

Palgrave Macmillan announces three new journal society contracts for 2009

Palgrave Macmillan has announced that as of 2009 it will publish three additional, established peer-reviewed journals:

Business Economics
The European Journal of Development Research
OR Insight

Library of Congress Information Bulletin - March 2008

Library of Congress Information Bulletin - Vol. 67, No 3 - March 2008 - is now available online

Library of Congress Fall 2008 Literary Season

The Library of Congress fall literary season, which will open on October 16 with a reading by Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Kay Ryan, will also include a poetry reading on October 23 by poets Jane Shore and Dabney Stuart and a lecture by poet and critic James Longenbach on November 20

LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #41

LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #41 : "This week's episode is a bit of a break from a very busy week previously. After the information overload of three episodes covering BlogWorldExpo, the team brings an interview with search engine company hakia". Previous Podcasts can be found here

United Nations Treaty Collection updated

The United Nations Treaty Collection website has been re-designed and updated

Grampian Information Conference 2008

Grampian Information Conference 2008 - 6 November, 2008 - Aberdeen, Scotland

University of Chicago Press Journals 2009 subscription rates

The University of Chicago Press has released 2009 journal subscription rates for both individual and institutional subscribers