Professional Reading Shelf
National Libraries--China
Source: People's Daily China: National Library opens digital portal
"A digital portal to collections of the National Library of China was opened on May 29, providing online search and accession to digitalized resources of the library. As the latest public service platform launched by the library, the D-portal combines 37 Chinese-language data banks, 77 foreign language data banks, 16,000-odd periodicals in both Chinese and foreign languages, as well as special resources including local records..."
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Newspapers--Digitization
Source: MarketingVOX Digitized Archives of Small Town Papers Going Online
" SmallTownPapers has been digitizing newspaper archives for free and giving them a presence online, while preserving a rich - and searchable - historical record. Through the project's website, browser can see an archived newspaper as it was printed and can also search through articles and advertisements, and look for photos."
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Internet Resources The June, 2005 Issue of the Internet Resources Newsletter is Online
Looking for some new and/or useful resources? If so, this is one great resource.
-- Scholarly Publishing--Open Access
Source: International Yearbook of Library and Information Management 2004-2005: Scholarly Publishing in an Electronic Era (Chapter 6; via E-LIS) The Next Information Revolution - How Open Access will Transform Scholarly Communications
"Complaints about spiralling serials costs, lack of service from large commercial publishers, and the inability to meet the information needs of researchers are not new. Over the past few years, however, we have begun to see new models develop that better serve the information needs academics as both authors and readers. The internet is now being used in ways other than just to provide electronic facsimiles of print journals accessed using the traditional subscription models. Authors can now ?self-archive? their own work making it available to millions and new open access journals extend this by providing a peer-review service to ensure quality control. SPARC and SPARC Europe play a prominent role in the new scholarly communication landscape as they encourage the progress of open access while working closely with scholars and scientists, who must recognize the benefits of change within academe in order for such progress to occur." Full text (Word document)
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National Libraries
Source: ManagingInformation.com Over 11m Digital Records Now Available At European Library
"After three years of collaborative project work and ten months of operational development, The European Library was recently launched. Over 11 million digitised and born digital records and objects from 9 of Europe's National Libraries are free to all."
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