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"Libraries were once the center of the information universe. Fifteen years ago, if I had told you about the coming internet, you would have assumed that libraries would have a prominent place on it. They don't.
Libraries, including WorldCat, rarely show up in web searches, even for books. I lay the blame squarely at the wrong-headed decision to keep library data off the "real web" and to push WorldCat as a "aggregation point" for nobody.
Berlin Academic – so heißt der neue Wissenschaftsverlag, dessen Gründung der Berlin Verlag heute bekannt gibt.
Auf einer neu errichteten Online-Plattform veröffentlicht Berlin Academic sein Programm nach Open-Access-Prinzipien und unter Creative-Commons-Lizenzen. Gleichzeitig werden sämtliche Titel über Print on Demand sowie in verschiedenen E-Book-Formaten vertrieben.
MORE than 65,000 19th-century works of fiction from the British Library’s collection are to be made available for free downloads by the public from this spring.
This Linked Data Horizon Scan was commissioned from Paul Miller of the Cloud of Data by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The work was intended to provide an overview of current developments with respect to Linked Data, and to make a series of recommendations to JISC and the wider community.
"[T]he key point is that we need to take back our publications from the market-based economy, and to reorient scholarly communication within the gift economy that best enables our work to thrive."
This disconnect is the number-one threat to science librarianship today—perhaps to all academic librarianship. How can science libraries persist when scientists haven't the least notion that libraries or librarians are relevant to their work?
Das Bundeskanzleramt und das Österreichische Staatsarchiv haben Siemens IT Solutions und Services (SIS) mit der Errichtung eines elektronischen Archivs der Republik Österreich beauftragt. Ab Ende 2010 werden zunächst die Bundesministerien ihre aktuell anfallenden Daten einspielen, später sollen auch ältere Bestände eingepflegt werden.