Posts Tagged ‘Findability’
Recent Acquisition Has Some Concerned About Access
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has been acquired by Elsevier with the promise that it will be further developed with Mendeley, Elsevier’s scholarly collaboration network, to provide users with leading content, data linking, enhanced metrics and researcher workflow tools. PR Newswire brought this interesting news to us in their article, “Elsevier Acquires the Social Science Research…
Read MoreTaxonomies are Key to Findability
Using SharePoint for document management is common to most organizations. Using it for records management is an obvious next step. CMS Wire brought this news to our attention in their article, “How to Get Started with SharePoint Records Management.” Using the same system can lead to cost reduction, better business alignment and better usability. The key…
Read MoreExpanded Digital Library Enhances Findings
HathiTrust Research Center has expanded its services to now support computational research of the world’s largest digital library collection housed by HathiTrust. This interesting news came to us from their press release, “One of the world’s largest digital libraries opens doors to text mining scholars.” Previously scholars could only data mine the open-source part of…
Read MoreNew Partnership Increases Access
A new partnership was recently announced between 1science and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). Together they will provide academic libraries access to a vast number of openly accessible scholarly articles when performing a search in EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Library Technology Guides brought this interesting information to us in their article, “1science and EBSCO Information Services announce…
Read MoreFinding the Data
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has acquired GlobalSpec, a leading source of news, data and analytics for the global engineering and technical community, including the widely known brand name Engineering360. PR Newswire brought this news to our attention in their article, “IEEE Acquires GlobalSpec and the Engineering360 Platform from IHS to Create Powerful…
Read MoreSearching for Findability
The Enterprise Search and Findability Survey 2016 has been launched and your participation is invited. Findwise has been running this survey annually since 2012 to help those in the industry to understand how search is employed, managed and perceived in different organizations, big and small, global and local. The survey results provide unique insight into trends, who…
Read MoreOne More Time With Feeling
In keeping with the music theme from last week’s post about naming music groups, and in light of recent events associated with Prince’s death, as well as the American Libraries Associations Preservation Week, let’s discuss what happens when archival and general search produces bad results.
Read MoreThinking Outside the Words
With necessity being the mother of invention, this particular blogger/developer created a tool to serve the purpose of a thesaurus construction application. You may know it as www.thesauri.co.uk. Further developments more recently attempted to bring it into line with the International Standard (BS ISO 25964-1). There are challenges and the journey isn’t complete but there are lessons…
Read MoreRecording History for Future Searchers
Recording history is just one use of indexing data, but it is a pretty important one. Seventy years after World War II and the Holocaust, contributors around the globe are indexing victims’ names through an online memorial that recently hit the 1 million mark in number of names. This interesting information came to us from USA Today…
Read MoreSearch and Find
An extensive, searchable digital archive of the design magazine Architectural Digest is now available from EBSCO Information Services. This interesting news came to us from Market Wired in their article, “EBSCO Information Services Introduces the Architectural Digest Magazine Archive.” The Architectural Digest Magazine Archive includes cover-to-cover access to issues of the design magazine from the 1920s to…
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