Senior Taxonomist Position Available
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 […]
June 2016
Copyright Issue on the Table
By admin|June 9th, 20162016-06-09T07:05:59-04:00
The California Assembly Committee on Judiciary recently approved a bill to grant local and state governments copyright authority along with other intellectual property rights. AB […]
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New Acquisition Makes Content Findable
By admin|June 9th, 20162016-06-09T07:08:24-04:00
Elsevier has acquired Hivebench, the flagship product of researcher application developer Shazino. This tool will be integrated into Elsevier’s existing Research Data Management portfolio, resulting […]
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Book Signings at SLA 2016
By admin|June 8th, 20162016-06-08T07:05:06-04:00
This year’s Special Libraries Association (SLA) annual conference takes place June 12-14, 2016 in Philadelphia. There are unique opportunities and events being offered in addition […]
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Moving Forward on the Right Path
By admin|June 8th, 20162016-06-08T07:01:01-04:00
The need for standards across any line of work or process is undeniable. In this particular case, there is a need to identify a […]
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Free, But Fair
By admin|June 7th, 20162016-06-07T07:12:55-04:00
Sci-Hub has been in the news a lot lately, but few people truly understand what it is and how it affects academic journals and […]
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Tracking the Data
By admin|June 7th, 20162016-06-07T07:17:12-04:00
Late in 2014, Scholarly Kitchen shared with us a project with Ithaka S+R to research Amazon’s book sales to academic libraries. Some early results are in and […]
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It’s Summer Reading Time!
By admin|June 6th, 20162016-06-13T08:23:30-04:00
Summer reading. These two words can instill both excitement and dread at the same time for a youth services librarian. Libraries across the country […]
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Erasing History
By Melody Smith|June 3rd, 20162016-06-03T07:12:51-04:00
Digital archives exist to preserve data for infinitely long periods of time, so it is interesting that the Spanish Supreme Court recently ruled on […]
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Trusting the Standards
By Melody Smith|June 3rd, 20162016-06-03T07:14:57-04:00
Trust is not likely to be a word used by many users when it comes to search results and ranking. The algorithms used in […]
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