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Study examines how libraries help doctoral students
A collaborative study between the libraries at Cornell University and Columbia University, two research libraries that make up the 2CUL partnership in the USA, aims to discover if the library can help doctoral students in the humanities fi nish their degrees.
Grants from the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation will support a user needs assessment to determine what academic libraries can do to help humanities doctoral students complete their degrees. Both 2CUL libraries are contributing to this effort.
US universities start $20 million archiving project
A $20 million US archiving project led by Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Sheridan Libraries aims to help preserve scientifi c data. The fi ve-year ‘Data Conservancy’ project is part of the National Science Foundation’s $100 million DataNet programme. This aims to establish a national cyberinfrastructure to support the long-term preservation and curation of scientifi c data.
Royal Holloway sets open-access mandate
Royal
Holloway University of London has approved an
open-access publication policy. All its researchers must deposit copies of
British Library partners with Amazon to share rare 19th century books
A new deal between the British Library and Amazon will make 65,000 largely out-of-print 19th century titles available on Amazon via CreateSpace’s Print on- Demand service and as free downloads for Amazon Kindle owners.
These titles, with more than 25 million pages of content, were originally digitised in
partnership with Microsoft Livesearch. The deal covers Amazon’s sites in USA, the UK, France and Germany, and Amazon’s wireless portable reading device Kindle. Estimates suggest that
roughly 35 to 40 per cent of the British Library’s 19th century British printed collections are either unique, or at least inaccessible through other
major libraries in the UK and elsewhere.
Through print on-demand with CreateSpace, part of the Amazon group of companies, readers will be able to have their own copies of these previously rare and inaccessible titles now in the public domain, including some classic fi rst editions, re-printed at an affordable price.
SPARC guide explores open-access funds
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has released a guide and supporting web resource exploring campus-based open- access (OA) publishing funds. OA funds address article- processing fees that may be
associated with publishing in an OA journal or as an OA article in a hybrid journal. The guide, written by
SPARC consultant Greg Tananbaum, aims to inform libraries, authors, administrators and interested others on the practical
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their research in the Royal Holloway Research Online (RHRO) repository from 1 September 2010. Rob Kemp, acting principal
at Royal Holloway, said: ‘This will enable us to maximise the benefi t and extend the reach of the university’s research. It also coincides with the forthcoming implementation of a new state- of-the-art research information system at Royal Holloway, which will provide the missing link between open-access publications, research administration and management information across the college.’
Google is important to Chinese scientists, says study
More than three-quarters of Chinese scientists use Google as the primary search engine for their research. More than 80 per cent use the
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search engine to fi nd academic papers; nearly 60 per cent use it to get information about scientifi c discoveries or other scientists’ research programmes; and more than half use the literature search Google Scholar.
These are some of the fi ndings of
a survey by the journal Nature, which has been examining the potential impact of the stand-off between Google and the Chinese government if they lost access to the search engine and its related products.
Bloomberg and Wiley strike book publishing alliance
Wiley will be the exclusive global publisher of Bloomberg and Bloomberg BusinessWeek-branded books under ‘Bloomberg Press, a Wiley imprint’. Wiley intends to publish the content using all media
platforms including print, e-books and digital. Bloomberg Press publishes fi nancial books as well as books on investing, economics, current affairs and policy affecting investors.
Germany agrees national e-book licence with Springer
The German National Library of Science and Technology and the German National Library of Medicine have signed an agreement for access to Springer eBooks on SpringerLink. According to the publisher, the agreement represents the largest e-book deal ever signed in Germany. The licence covers all English-language chemistry, materials science and medicine titles of the copyright years 2005-2008, and is supported the German Research Foundation (DFG).
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considerations surrounding OA funds. The site includes up-to-date information on: active OA funds; FAQs for authors, administrators, and publishers; considerations in evaluating the launch of a fund; and key policy decisions.
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