NRC Research Press back issues now available online

"NRC Research Press has embarked on an ambitious project to move decades of paper copies of its journals from library shelves to the World Wide Web. As scientists and engineers turn more and more to the Web for information, the legacy of past research can be forgotten. To prevent this from happening, we have devoted resources to scanning the paper articles into a readable, searchable format (PDF), and compiling the abstracts and tables of contents in HTML format. The result is a wealth of information that can be found through current search engines and reference links on other sites, thanks to our partnerships with the major players in this field"

OpenDoc Society

"OpenDoc Society brings together individuals and organisations with a stake or interest in the openness and future of documents to learn from each other and share knowledge - about core technologies, available tools, policy issues, transition strategies, legal aspects and of course the latest innovations. Whether you are a developer, publisher, decision maker, educator, vendor, IT manager, academic, writer, archivist or just an involved citizen - OpenDocSociety.org brings you together with interesting like-minded people to learn from and cooperate with"

American Museum of Natural History open access journals

The American Museum of Natural History now offers free electronic access to the full text of these publications from the first issue to the most current issue:

American Museum Novitates
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History

Ariadne - Issue 53, October 2007

Ariadne - Issue 53, October 2007 is now available. Ariadne is targeted principally at information science professionals in academia, and also to interested lay people both in and beyond the Higher Education community. Its main geographic focus is the UK, but it is widely read in the US and worldwide

UK libraries offering book inserts to advertisers

"n a ground-breaking initiative, UK libraries are offering advertising agencies and their clients the opportunity to place promotional inserts within their books. The scheme, pioneered by direct marketing specialist Howse Jackson Marketing, in partnership with Brandspace CMS, offers advertisers 500,000 inserts in county libraries such as Essex, Dorset, Somerset and also Bromley, Leeds and Southend. The scheme aims to cover the UK by mid-2008 with a total of 3 million plus inserts available per month"

2007 Booktrust Teenage Prize

"Marcus Sedgwick has won the 2007 Booktrust Teenage Prize for his gothic novel My Swordhand is Singing, published in the UK by Orion. My Swordhand is Singing is a sinister tale of a woodcutter and his son who fight the legendary undead in the wintry isolated forests of seventeenth-century Romania. The novel is a thrilling and menacing story which draws heavily on Sedgwick’s extensive research of the vampire legend in Eastern Europe"

LegalPubs.ca

LegalPubs.ca - an RSS driven aggregation of the most recent products offered by Canadian legal publishers

U.S. National Archives announces discovery of "Hitler Albums" documenting looted art

"Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States, Michael Kurtz, Assistant Archivist for Records Services and Robert M. Edsel, author of Rescuing Da Vinci and President of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, has announced the discovery of two original leather bound photograph albums documenting art that was looted by the Nazis during World War II, both of which Mr. Edsel will donate to the National Archives under separate terms"

UK Lottery backs a public winner with GBP80m for libraries

"A major GBP80m investment in public libraries has been welcomed today by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Partnership. The cash, from the Big Lottery Fund, has been awarded to projects throughout England. Capital sums up to GBP2m will be handed to 58 winning library authorities that have successfully devised plans to engage local people in developing new and refurbished spaces where a broad range of activities can be offered. The Community Libraries Programme, which was developed jointly between the Big Lottery Fund; Museums, Libraries and Archives Council; and the Society of Chief Librarians, aims to enhance public libraries as venues for a diverse range of community activities, such as reading groups, cultural events, exhibitions, courses, or parent-and-toddler groups"

code4lib 2008 conference

The third annual code4lib conference is now in the organizing phase, and will be held in Portland, Oregon at the Embassy Suites located in downtown Portland, February 25-28, 2008

The Journal of the Medical Library Association - October 2007

The Journal of the Medical Library Association - Volume 95(4) October 2007 - is now available online

Archives Hub Collections of the Month, November 2007

Archives Hub Collections of the Month, November 2007: Seeing the light: "The Climate Change Bill is going to Parliament soon, and this month we look at climate change and the solar alternative to fossil fuels"

HistCite

HistCite is a new software package designed to help science professionals make better use of their literature searches. HistCite lets you analyze and organize the results of a search to obtain various views of the topic's structure, history, and relationships. HistCite is available as a fully functional 30-day free trial version. HistCite is a software implementation of algorithmic historiography, and has been developed by Dr Eugene Garfield, founder of the Institute for Scientific Information and the inventor of the Science Citation Index

WorldSciNet OPEN ACCESS

"World Scientific has announced that authors can now choose to have their journal articles made available with full open access. For this purpose, authors will be charged a basic article processing fee. Similar to the traditional publishing model, articles from authors opting for open access will be peer-reviewed, undergo the same quality production process and made available in both print and electronic formats. They will be similarly included in appropriate Abstract and Indexing Services and all the articles will be registered in CrossRef. When authors choose WorldSciNet OPEN ACCESS, they will retain the copyright to (not of) the article but will be required to sign the WorldSciNet Open Access License to Publish. Each WorldSciNet Open Access article will be clearly identified with an 'Open Access' icon in both the e-version and the print format"

Yale University Library and Microsoft partner on ambitious digital project

"Readers around the world will soon have online access to thousands of rare books in Yale's Library thanks to an agreement between the University and Microsoft Corporation to digitize many volumes found only in the Yale collections. The Microsoft-Yale project will initially focus on the digitization of 100,000 out-of-copyright English-language books, which will then become available to readers through Microsoft's Live Search interface"

Internet Librarian International 2007 presentations

Presentations given at Internet Librarian International 2007, London, UK, are now available

Librarians' Internet Index - New This Week

Librarians' Internet Index - New This Week - November 1, 2007

The Public Library Buildings Awards UK and Republic of Ireland 2007 announced

The Public Libraries Group (PLG) of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and An Chomhairle Leabharlanna (The Library Council) have announced the winners of The Public Library Buildings Awards UK and Republic of Ireland 2007 at their annual conference in Glasgow

xISSN Web service

"The xISSN Web service supplies ISSNs and other information associated with serial publications represented in WorldCat. Submit an ISSN to this service, and it returns a list of related ISSNs and selected metadata. The service is based on WorldCat, the world's largest network of library content and services. The current xISSN database covers 575,573 ISSNs"

LLRX.com October, 2007 update

LLRX.com October, 2007 update is now online. LLRX.com is a unique, free Web journal dedicated to providing legal, library, IT/IS, marketing and administrative professionals with the most up-to-date information on a wide range of Internet research and technology-related issues, applications, resources and tools, since 1996