"We Shall Remain" on PBS TV

"From the award-winning PBS series American Experience comes We Shall Remain, a provocative multi-media project that establishes Native history as an essential part of American history" - April 2009

Guardian (UK) launches Open Platform tool to make online content available free

The Guardian today launched Open Platform, a service that will allow partners to reuse guardian.co.uk content and data for free and weave it "into the fabric of the internet". Open Platform launched with two separate content-sharing services, which will allow users to build their own applications in return for carrying Guardian advertising. A content application programming interface (API) will smooth the way for web developers to build applications and services using Guardian content, while a Data Store will contain datasets curated by Guardian editors and open for others to use.

UK PubMed Central Blog

The UK PubMed Central Blog has been created as a way of alerting researchers to:

* new service developments at UK PubMed Central
* changes to publisher policies in terms of open access and self-archiving
* relevant news from the open access (OA) blogosphere

AquaBrowser chosen by Harvard University Library

"AquaBrowser Library has been chosen by the Harvard University Library as its search and discovery platform. The AquaBrowser implementation will include faceted navigation, word cloud discovery, relevancy ranking, an integrated Authority File, real-time availability information for items, and integration with the ILS for patron services such as placing holds, making requests, viewing checkouts, and renewing items."

Calendar of State Papers, Spain

The complete series of the Calendar of State Papers, Spain, is now live. These 19 volumes cover Spanish papers concerning relations with England for all the Tudor monarchs up to Elizabeth. The Elizabethan papers can be found in the complementary Simancas series which is already live on the site. - From British History Online

LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #63

LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #63. "In this week's episode we hear from Peter Eckersley, a staff technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, about their new Surveillance Self-Defense guide. Tools such as Tor and GnuPG are also presented in addition to a mention of the show's relevant GnuPG public key". Previous Podcasts can be found here

Is this portrait the real Shakespeare at last?

"A portrait owned for nearly 300 years by a family will be claimed as the only known picture of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime. No other image, executed at first hand, is thought to exist of Britain's greatest writer. The claim will be supported by the world's foremost expert on Shakespeare, Stanley Wells, emeritus professor of Shakespeare studies at Birmingham University and general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare series for 30 years. The portrait, which was painted in 1610, six years before the playwright's death, has been in the possession of the Cobbe family since the early 18th century. It was initially kept at a property in Hampshire but more recently in Hatchlands, the family house in Surrey, which is run by the National Trust." - The Australian

First Monday - March 2009

First Monday - Volume 14, Number 3, 2 March 2009 now available

Kew via Exact Editions

Kew, the quarterly magazine of the Royal Botanic Gardens, is now available via Exact Editions

British Library acquires The Communist Manifesto

"Appearing as a wave of revolutions swept Europe in Spring 1848, the pamphlet that we know as The Communist Manifesto was first printed in London. An association of German political exiles sponsored the printing - in German, by an obscure radical press - of what would undoubtedly become one of the most momentous political works of all time. 160 years on, the British Library has acquired what is believed to be the only complete copy of the first edition of The Communist Manifesto to be held in the UK, and the only copy in the world to be held by a national library"

Los Angeles Times 2008 Book Prize finalists announced

The 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes will be awarded Friday evening at 8pm, April 24, 2009, in a private ceremony at the Los Angeles Times building. The 2008 Book Prizes Event will be a private event not open to the general public.

Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Book Festival 2009

Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Book Festival 2009 will take place between 6-14 March at The Mitchell Library in Glasgow, Scotland

MyCopy from Springer

"Springer has launched MyCopy powered by SpringerLink, a pilot project to expand its services to eBook users. MyCopy allows a library's registered patrons to order soft cover copies, for their personal use, of those Springer eBooks that the library has previously purchased. Initially, 14 selected libraries and research institutions in the USA and Canada take part in the pilot project with more test partners set to join in early 2009. The MyCopy offer is currently valid for more than 11,000 eBooks out of a total of 30,000 Springer eBooks published since 2005. MyCopy books feature a full color cover while the book content itself is printed in black and white. They can be ordered by registered patrons at libraries that have previously purchased a Springer eBook collection. All MyCopy books are priced at $24.95 (including shipping and handling within the USA and Canada)"

2009 Digital Music Report

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industries has released its 2009 Digital Music Report on the state of digital technology in the music industry. While the report finds that the industry has succeeded in changing its business models, its biggest challenge is still illegal music downloads

First look at new 'green' library (Cardiff, Wales)

"Funky furniture, listening hubs, a grass roof and an mini grand piano - no it's not the latest Big Brother house but Cardiff's spanking new library. The six storey building is a world away from the dark, dank and dusty libraries of old and has already been rewarded for its green design credentials. The idea, according to Cardiff council, is to make the library as attractive and welcoming as possible to visitors. The library opens its doors to the public on Saturday 14 March" - BBC

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

Open Renewable Energy Journal

Open Waste Management Journal

Ethnorêma

Focus on Mimas - March 2009

The March 2009 edition of Focus on Mimas is now available. Mimas is a national data centre, supported by JISC and ESRC, and based at The University of Manchester, England

BMJ Group Institutional Newsletter - March 2009

The March 2009 issue of the BMJ Group Institutional Newsletter is now available

New blog: digital stewardship now

"digital stewardship now will regularly post about milestones, issues, challenges and solutions emerging across the global digital stewardship landscape. We will endeavor to frame activity across disciplines and geographies, and provide visualizations of this rapidly evolving field to improve coherence and understanding"

eduWeb Conference 2009

eduWeb Conference 2009 - 20-22 July 2009 - Chicago, USA. The conference is also on Twitter