Curious Librarian

Springer launches interdisciplinary open access journal SpringerPlus

Mallikarjun Dora — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:21:18 +0000

Springer launches Springerplus, an open access interdisciplinary journal which cover the entire spectrum of scientific research on emerging areas.

Excerpt from the site

“SpringerOpen is Springer’s new suite of open access journals which will cover all disciplines. SpringerOpen journals are fully and immediately open access and will publish articles under the Creative Commons Attribution license. This makes it easy for authors to fully comply with open access mandates and retain copyright. SpringerOpen journals combine open access and our expertise in delivering high-quality and rapid publications, from online submission systems and in-depth peer review to an efficient, author-friendly production process.”

Search all the E-books in one place

Mallikarjun Dora — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:29:07 +0000

Here is one search engine, where you can search all the e-books, please visit the link http://search-ebooks.eu/

Wolters Kluwer Health Acquires Medknow Open Access STM Journal Publisher from India

Mallikarjun Dora — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:05:59 +0000

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that it has acquired Medknow PVT Ltd., a leading Scientific, Technical & Medical (STM) journal publishing operation headquartered in Mumbai, India and one of the largest open access publishers in the world(excerpt from the site)

As we all know that Medknow is one of the Open Access Publisher of STM journals on behalf of different societies. it’s published 172 total journals, 147 total associations, 61,827 total full text articles.

More details on this news

http://www.wolterskluwer.com/Press/Latest-News/2011/Pages/5dec1.aspx

Medknow

http://www.medknow.com/

British Newspaper Archive goes online

Mallikarjun Dora — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:40:39 +0000

British Library has launched the British Newspaper archive which provide access to 4m fully searchable pages include 200 Newspaper title, dates back from 19th century.

details visit the link

http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/

Google Scholar Citation

Mallikarjun Dora — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:33:49 +0000

Google Scholar citation is another fantastic service by Google, although there are so many e.g. Sscholar,Books, News, Document,blogging and search engine itself which will be immensely help to academician researcher community.

To create your own Google Scholar citation, first visit to the following link, the page will be displayed as below

http://scholar.google.co.in/schhp?hl=en&tab=ws

Click on the google scholar citation open to all, the link will redirect you to log in through your email id, you have to provide you profile details in next step it will ask you to add your articles. In the last you have your own page like below

PLANNER 2012, INFLIBNET

Mallikarjun Dora — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:38:16 +0000

Excerpt from the Inflibnet site

Promotion of Library Automation and Networking in North Eastern Region (PLANNER) is a special convention organized by INFLIBNET in collaboration with different universities of North Eastern States, this time its being organized in collaboration with Sikkim University, Gangtok during March 1-3, 2012.

Main theme is ” Building Participatory Library Services in Digital Era” and sub theme are as below

Subtheme 1: Participatory Web Tools

Web 2.0 and Library 2.0
Social Networks
Mashups
Tagging & Social Bookmarking
Semantic Web
Technology Trends for and Beyond 2.0
From OPACs to Discovery tools

Subtheme 2 : Academic Libraries in Participatory Era

Participatory Librarianship Approach
Collective Intelligence and Collaborative Publishing
Library as Facilitators for Conversation and Interaction
Institutional Repositories
Open Journal/book and other Content Management Systems
Virtual Reference Services and Community Involvement
Digital Collections
Building the Participatory Librarianship.

Subtheme 3 : Building Infrastructure for Participation

Federated search and Discovery Services
Cloud Computing
Collaborative Access Management, Open ID
Case Studies and Best Practices

Regarding more details on paper submission and other things, you may visit to the conference site

http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/planner2012/index.html

DAITSS digital preservation software

Mallikarjun Dora — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:29:36 +0000

Excerpt from the site

About DAITSS:

DAITSS is a digital preservation software application developed by the Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) with some support from the IMLS.

DAITSS provides automated support for the functions of Submission, Ingest, Archival Storage, Access, Withdrawal, and Repository Management.

To download and more details, please visit the following link

http://daitss.fcla.edu/content/welcome-daitss-website

Dspace 1.8.0 and Greenstone 2.85 released

Mallikarjun Dora — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:55:47 +0000

Dspace 1.8.0

Dspace 1.8.0 released, with new feature, bug fixes and system improvements

New feature like

* Improvements to the upgrade and configuration process: Most notably dspace.cfg has been split up, and the default behaviour when doing ‘Ant update’ is to replace the existing files if the new files are different.
* More Curation Tools/Plugins: Including a new “Metadata Link Checker” and “Metadata Translator”.
* Configurable Workflow for the XMLUI: Allows administrators to customize their workflow approval process.
* SWORD Client: Enables DSpace to push/submit content to other SWORD enabled repositories.
* SWORDv2 Server Module: DSpace can now support submissions via SWORD protocol version 2 (as well as version 1).
* RSS feeds now support richer features, such as iTunes podcast and publishing to iTunesU.
* Enhancements to Discovery faceted searching & browsing system.
* Rewrite of Creative Commons licensing for XMLUI.
* Ability to now reorder bitstreams in an item.
* Ability to enable automatic virus checking during item submission.
* Ability to Withdraw/Reinstate/Delete Items in Bulk, via Batch Metadata Editing.

you can download the dspace new version from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/files/DSpace%20Stable/1.8.0/

Greenstone 2.85

Also there is released of Greenstone new version, which you can download from http://www.greenstone.org/download

UNESCO Launches Global Open Access Portal

Mallikarjun Dora — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:36:19 +0000

Excerpt from the site

Its designed to provide necessary information for policy maker to learn about the global OA(Open Access) environment and to view the country status to understand how each country are progressing on OA front.

Key area on which it focus on

the critical success factors for effectively implementing Open Access;
each country’s strengths and opportunities for further developments;
where mandates for institutional deposits and funding organization have been put into place;
potential partners at the national and regional level; and
funding, advocacy, and support organizations throughout the world.

More details you can visit the official website

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/

Routledge trials new author rights policy for Library and Information Science Journals

Mallikarjun Dora — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:24:29 +0000

This is another feather in OA initiative, a two year pilot test by Routledge group on author right policy for library and information science journals, under this, author will retain the copyright to their work and can post in their institutional repository without any embargo period.

Below are the Taylor and Francis library and information science journals list
The Information Society
New Review of Academic Librarianship
New Review of Children’s Literature & Librarianship
New Review of Information Networking
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship
Business & Finance Librarianship
Behavior & Social Science Librarian
Cataloguing & Classification Quarterly
Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet
Collection Management
College & Undergraduate Libraries
Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries
Journal of Hospital Librarianship
Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve
Internet Reference Services Quarterly
Journal of Archival Organization
Journal of Access Services
Community & Junior College Libraries
Journal of Library Administration
Journal of Library Metadata
Journal of Web Librarianship
Library & Archival Security
Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning
Legal Reference Services Quarterly
Map & Geography Libraries
Medical Reference Services Quarterly
Music References Services Quarterly
Public Library Quarterly
Public Services Quarterly
The Reference Librarian
Religious & Theological Information
Slavic & East European Information Resources
The Serials Librarian
Science & Technology Libraries
Technical Services Quarterly

more details please visit to the below link

http://www.informa.com/Media-centre/Press-releases–news/Latest-News/Routledge-trials-new-author-rights-policy-for-Library-and-Information-Science-Journals1/