New journal from Marie Piccone, Publisher

Marie Piccone, Publisher, has announced that the full text of TELOS is available online

New journals from Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press has announced the following new journals:

The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy
InnovAiT

New journals from SAGE Publications

SAGE Publications has announced that the following titles are now available online:

Media, War & Conflict
Millennium - Journal of International Studies

A casual conversation with Marshall Breeding

A conversation with Marshall Breeding, the Director for Innovative Technologies and Research for the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University, held on March 28, 2008. (17.7 MB; runtime 57:23)

Free WiFi at the British Library from 1 October 2008

The British Library's St Pancras site will offer WiFi internet access free of charge from 1 October 2008. The free WiFi service will initially be a six month pilot scheme

LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #15

LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #15 : "This week's episode brings interviews with Great Western Dragon and Don Reisinger. Great Western Dragon, otherwise known as Dr. Daniel Messer, related his experience with the Virtual Conference part of PLA 2008 National. Don Reisinger chatted about tech issues in society. Although a commentary was planned it was cut due to time". Previous Podcasts can be found here

The Royal Society Library Newsletter - March 2008

The Royal Society Library Newsletter - March 2008 issue is now available

UKeiG Annual Seminar 2008

UKeiG Annual Seminar 2008: Web 2.0 in action: Practical implementation in the workplace - 12 June 2008 - London, UK

Human Oral Microbiome Database

"The goal of creating the Human Oral Microbiome Database (HOMD) is to provide the scientific community with comprehensive information o­n the approximately 600 prokaryote species that are present in the human oral cavity"

Photoshop Express

"The maker of the popular photo-editing software Photoshop has launched a basic version available for free online. San Jose, California-based Adobe Systems says it hopes to boost its name recognition among a new generation of consumers who edit, store and share photos online"

Bioscience Horizons

"Bioscience Horizons is a free online journal publishing the best undergraduate bioscience research from the UK and Republic of Ireland. The journal provides a forum for students, their supervisors and universities, to showcase high quality undergraduate research work, strengthening the link between teaching and research in higher education. All papers are written by students and based on final year research projects"

The worldwide collection of Shakespeare Quartos will become available online

"The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford together with the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, is to create the Shakespeare Quartos Archive, a freely-accessible digital collection. The initiative is one of five transatlantic digitization collaborations between British and American institutions awarded the first JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants. The other participating organizations include the British Library, Edinburgh University Library, the National Library of Scotland, the Shakespeare Institute at Birmingham University and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities"

MasterKey

"MasterKey is a hosted service developed and maintained by Index Data. It uses Ajax to improve the speed and functionality of simultaneous multi-target search and retrieval. The core Web service engine, on which MasterKey is based, is called Pazpar2, Index Data's second generation metasearch engine. The MasterKey hosted metasearch service is now, and will continue to be, freely usable for searching selected open content online resources and library catalogs. Commercial resources and additional catalogs can be added to the service using the fee-based version of MasterKey"

GreenFILE via EBSCO

"In keeping with our commitment to environmental consciousness, EBSCO proudly offers GreenFILE, a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond"

EPA libraries reopening

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to reopen five closed libraries to the public by this fall. Three of the EPA's 10 regional libraries and two libraries at the agency's Washington headquarters were closed because of limited public use and resources being available online"

Ten million articles on all Wikipedias

"Earlier this week the Wikimedia Foundation reached a significant new milestone: on Thursday, March 27, at 00:07 UTC the official article count for all Wikipedias combined reached 10 million. The ten millionth article, a short biography of 16th century English goldsmith and painter Nicholas Hilliard, was created in the Hungarian Wikipedia by user Pataki Marta"

Sophie 1.0 available

"Sophie is software for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment. Sophie's goal is to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of people and institutions and in so doing to redefine the notion of a book or 'academic paper' to include both rich media and mechanisms for reader feedback and conversation in dynamic margins. Version 1.0 is available for download now. This version runs on Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems"

USEMARCON latest version

"The latest version of USEMARCON (Version 3.06) offers librarians the ability to carry out fast on the fly conversion of MARC formats"

Searchme

"Searchme lets you see what you're searching for. As you start typing, categories appear that relate to your query. Choose a category, and you'll see pictures of web pages that answer your search. You can review these pages quickly to find just the information you're looking for, before you click through"

Digital Preservation Europe releases PLATTER

Digital Preservation Europe has announced the release of PLATTER: a Planning Tool for Trusted Electronic Repositories