« (…) La 37e édition de la Charleston Conference – Issues in book and serial acquisition a eu lieu dans la capitale de la Caroline du Sud aux États-Unis du 8 au 10 novembre 2017 sous le mot d’ordre : What’s past is prologue. Sous ce titre énigmatique s’est…
« LYRASIS, a member-based nonprofit organization serving libraries, archives, and museums, is proud to announce a partnership with the NorthEast Research Libraries, the Greater Western Library Alliance, and the Big Ten Academic Alliance to create a US community to support ORCID (…) »
« (…) Among the amazing collections, you’ll find high-resolution images of Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait from 1889, ancient folklore scenes by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Henri Rousseau’s iconic Tropical Forest with Monkeys oil painting from 1844–1910. The best part? You can even become a curator of your own online art collection by…
« (…) Les bibliothèques sont confrontées aux pratiques culturelles numériques des individus sans être en capacité de répondre aux attentes et aux usages actuels conditionnés par des acteurs ayant une force de frappe bien plus efficace que nos bibliothèques. (…)
OverDrive a construit un modèle du livre numérique qui interroge sur…
« Academic libraries are struggling to meet a rising demand for non-English language content, according to new survey results published by ProQuest. Rising international student enrollments and the popularity of programs that use foreign language content are increasing the importance of foreign language materials in…
« In this era of open scholarship, greater access to research findings and data, especially when grounded in the FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable), has proven to be an important way to accelerate scientific progress and advance innovation to better serve the public good. Although there is general agreement about…
« A group of prestigious not-for-profit scientific membership societies today announced the launch of the Scientific Society Publisher Alliance (SSPA) (byscientistsforscience.org), an initiative focused on building awareness of and support for publication of scientific research by scientist-run scientific societies. (…) »
« This SPEC Kit gathers information on the breadth of practice taking place at the intersection of research libraries, presses, and publishing, and on the blurring of boundaries as libraries engage in publishing and press activities in new ways. It explores which activities are associated with library publishing, the level of…
« The American Chemical Society (ACS) has won a lawsuit it filed in June against Sci-Hub, a website providing illicit free access to millions of paywalled scientific papers. ACS had alleged copyright infringement, trademark counterfeiting and trademark infringement; a district court in…
« (…) This study examined the research data (management) services in academic libraries in the United States through a content analysis of 185 library websites, with four main areas of focus: service, information, education, and network. The results from the content analysis of these webpages reveals that libraries need to advance…
