OCLC and Elsevier sign agreement to provide full-text searching of SciVerse ScienceDirect journals and e-books through WorldCat Local

OCLC and Elsevier have signed an agreement that will make the full text from Elsevier's SciVerse ScienceDirect journals and e-books available to users of OCLC’s WorldCat Local

F1000 Research - a new fully Open Access publishing program

F1000 Research is a new fully Open Access publishing program across biology and medicine, that will start publishing later this year. It is intended to address the major issues afflicting scientific publishing today: timely dissemination of research, peer review, and sharing of data. Diverging from traditional journal publishing, F1000 Research will offer immediate publication; open, post-publication peer review; open revisioning of work including ongoing updates; and encourage raw data deposition and publication. In addition, F1000 Research will accept a broad range of article formats and content types

SMU Digital Repository (USA)

The SMU Digital Repository at Southern Methodist University provides access to research, online journals, articles, conference agendas and papers, theses, image collections, and other scholarly works. The Digital Repository team works with faculty and academic units to identify, manage, upload, and present via the internet a wide range of text, image, video, audio, database and other files that showcase SMU's research and scholarly achievements

Call for Proposals: Library Assessment Conference 2012

The Association of Research Libraries, the University of Virginia Library, the University of Washington Libraries, and the Conference Planning Committee are issuing a call for proposals for the 2012 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, to be held in Charlottesville, Virginia, October 29-31, 2012

IGeLU 2012 Conference - Switzerland

The 7th IGeLU Conference will be hosted by the ETH Zurich and is organized by the ETH-Bibliothek - 11-13 September 2012

Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles

Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business

Synergies Pologne

Ethnomusicology Review

Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biological Research

Revista Brasileira de História das Religiões

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy

Current Cites - January 2012

Current Cites (edited by Roy Tennant) - January 2012 is now available

VuFind 1.3 released

VuFind, the library portal software, has a new version. The latest version of the VuFind Open Source discovery software has just been released. The new release includes several significant enhancements:

* A new "book bag" feature has been added for shopping-cart-style bulk actions (save, email, export multiple records).
* VuFind is now driven by Apache Solr 3.5, the latest version of the powerful index engine.
* New optional search plug-ins have been added for visual timelines, Google Maps integration and Europeana searches.
* Enhanced RSS feeds allow VuFind results to be easily shared with external services such as Elsevier's SciVerse platform.
* Syndetics integration has been improved.
* VuFind's default theme now uses jQuery and Blueprint for a more dynamic, polished interface.

UPCC Books launched on Project MUSE

UPCC Books launched on Project MUSE in January 2012. The book collections offer thousands of peer-reviewed digital books from over 65 major university presses and scholarly publishers and allow books to be discovered and searched in an integrated environment with content from nearly 500 journals currently on MUSE

SCONUL Focus - Number 53

SCONUL Focus - Number 53 is now available from the Society of College, National and University Libraries, UK

InSITE: A Current Awareness Service of Cornell Law Library - Vol. 17, No. 10, January 30, 2012

InSITE: A Current Awareness Service of Cornell Law Library - Vol. 17, No. 10, January 30, 2012 is now available. Contents:

DREaM event 5 – conference (UK)

The DREaM project concluding event takes place at the British Library Conference Centre on Monday 9 July 2012. DREaM = Developing Research Excellence and Methods

New exhibition: The Romance of the Middle Ages (UK)

The Bodleian main exhibition has opened to the public. It celebrates the stories of medieval romance and how they have influenced our culture, literature and art over the last thousand years. It includes the dramatic love stories about King Arthur and Tristan and Isolde as they are illustrated in sumptuous medieval manuscripts, alongside works of art and draft papers by J.R.R. Tolkien, Philip Pullman and Monty Python, the last on public display for first time. The Romance of the Middle Ages exhibition at the Bodleian Library draws on the Bodleian's outstanding collection of manuscripts and early printed books containing medieval romances. These range from lavishly-illustrated volumes to personal notebooks and fragments only saved by chance. Alongside these will be works of art from across Europe that illustrate romance legends; these include ivory carvings, jewellery and caskets, on loan from national museums and collections

2000 Years of Romance… the British Library celebrates Love Letters through the ages

Love Letters: 2000 Years of Romance, a title published by the British Library, is the first ever anthology to reproduce original love letters in each of the writers' own hand. Featuring letters drawn from the Library's unique and vast collections, the romance spans from 168 BC to the 20th century and offers a rare insight into the intimate thoughts, feelings and desires of iconic individuals such as Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde

Teen Librarian Monthly: January 2012

Teen Librarian Monthly: January 2012 is now available for download

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. launches next-generation web platform

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. has announced the launch of its new website, offering streamlined access to over 92,000 articles from 70 high-impact publications. Using the latest technology, Liebertpub.com introduces an intuitive interface that helps users discover content quickly and easily, as well as new tools to help librarians manage access

Podcast: Researching Mr Briggs' Hat: an account of Britain's first railway murder

Researching Mr Briggs' Hat: an account of Britain's first railway murder The 1864 murder of Thomas Briggs in his first-class railway carriage is investigated through documents in The National Archives, The US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), newspapers and other resources. The overwhelming reaction to this event tells us about second generation Victorian society, how the trial stood at the cusp of legal change and has parallels with our own time. Kate Colquhoun is the author of Mr Briggs' Hat. Her books have been shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award. She writes regularly for The Telegraph, The Sunday Times and many other newspapers and magazines including Who Do You Think You Are?, as well as appearing on television and radio

The European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation becomes the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

SAGE and the European Society of Cardiology have announced that the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation has become the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. The Journal is the official journal of the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation of the European Society of Cardiology and embraces all the scientific, clinical and public health disciplines that address the causes and prevention of cardiovascular disease, as well as cardiovascular rehabilitation and exercise physiology

Learn Chemistry - hundreds of high-quality education resources in one place

Learn Chemistry brings the RSC's huge range of educational resources into one place. It makes them easily accessible with improved searching. To help with navigation, resources have been tagged in terms of their chemistry content and their relevance to global issues and challenges. Resources are also linked to other relevant content on Learn Chemistry to help teachers prepare their lessons

MediaSurfer

MediaSurfer, created by Tech Logic Corporation, is a stand-alone machine that makes it easy for libraries to automatically lend iPads and other media devices to library patrons, allowing them to borrow the latest mobile technology and embrace digital learning