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Webinar on Content Management
A slightly different but familiar learning opportunity has been announced. Content management tends to get lost in the midst of new technology and analytics. However, good old-fashioned content management still plays a pivotal role in an organization’s ability to manage input and output of information. It can also make the difference in whether the company…
Read MoreLearning Opportunities This Week
The Association of American Publishers is making available some very interesting and applicable speakers and topics during their Professional & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) webinars this week. The first one is today, July 21, 2015 at 12:30-1:30 p.m. with Dee Magnoni, Research Library Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dee will discuss Scholarly Communications at a National…
Read MoreNew Agreement Takes Communications to the Next Level
CHORUS recently announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ORCID to support discoverability in scholarly communications. This type of collaboration among organizations like CHORUS and ORCID is key to continuing to meet the changing needs of the scholarly community. ORCID Executive Director Laurel Haak said, “Creating and supporting authoritative connections between researchers and…
Read MoreNew and Better Access
Emerald Group Publishing has launched the Green Open Access, Zero Embargo trial applicable for all mandated articles submitted to the company’s library and information science (LIS) journals and to selected information and knowledge management journals. This interesting information came from Info Docket in their article, “Emerald Group Publishing Announces Library and Information Science Journals Green Open Access Trial.”…
Read MoreWhere to Start?
The Library of Congress started taking steps in 2010 toward preserving the nation’s increasingly digital heritage — by acquiring Twitter’s entire archive of tweets and planning to make it all available to researchers. This interesting news came from Politico in their article, “Library of Congress’ Twitter archive is a huge #FAIL.” Yes, you read that right.…
Read MoreA Word By Any Other Name
The Beatles just may cringe a little if they were still together. A humorous, tongue-in-cheek parody based on a song of theirs (I Am the Walrus) was brought to our attention in a video titled, “The Chaser’s War on Everything: I am thesaurus.” As in most news stories, the real entertainment is in the comment…
Read MoreMetadata and Findability
When introduced, metadata was basic and easy. It was breadcrumbs that led you to the real data or file. Once you understood the right information to put into it, the concept itself was simple. What was clear has become murky. This interesting topic came from KMWorld in their article, “Dissolution of metadata.” If you think of metadata…
Read MoreDirector of Taxonomy Needed
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are…
Read MoreBuilding Trust in Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and publisher of the Science family of journals, has acquired “Peer Review Evaluation” (PRE), a web-based service that promotes public trust in science by making the review of original research more transparent and verifiable. We found this interesting news on Yahoo in their article, “AAAS, Publisher of…
Read MorePaying it Forward
The UC Davis University Library and the California Digital Library are leading a new project to help define the future of open access to scholarship. The Davis Enterprise brought this information to us in their article, “UCD gets grant to look at open access to published research.” “Pay It Forward: Investigating a Sustainable Model of Open…
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