Posts Tagged ‘Findability’
Connecting Associated Content
Loop is the research network created by Frontiers and they recently began collaborating with ORCID to link and synchronize researcher profile information. This interesting news came from ORCID’s blog. Loop was officially launched in January 2015 and was designed to seamlessly plug into the environments of researchers, their universities and on published articles via a range of free…
Read MoreSources of Data
One of the lesser known responsibilities of records management is to identify the best technology available to provide the best service available within the allowed parameters, financial and otherwise. This takes time, a lot of time. And what happens when poor records-management leads to poor employee-management? Fierce Content Management brought this information to us in their article,…
Read MoreImproving the Service
Semantico has announced what they are calling a significant upgrade to SAMS, the leader in access and identity management for the scholarly community. SAMS Sigma officially launches at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. This information came from their release, “Semantico launches SAMS Sigma: the next generation in access and identity management.” SAMS Sigma uses a software as…
Read MoreLibrary of Congress Makes Improvements
The Library of Congress just announced a newly enhanced Global Legal Monitor (GLM), which is an online publication from the Law Library of Congress covering legal news and developments worldwide. The GLM contains almost 4,500 articles and most of what has changed will enable them to be more efficient in publishing articles by making the production process smoother. Whatever you are…
Read MoreWorkshop on Open Access
Open access to scholarly research is finally being embraced by governments, libraries, publishers and the global research community. The National Federation of Advanced Information Sciences (NFAIS) is offering a one-day workshop to explore which financial models have the greatest promise in support of open access. This event will be held Friday, October 23, at The Hub’s Cira…
Read MoreYoung Indexers Learn Valuable Skills
Building skills at a young age has long been proven successful. Somewhat different from learning to play the piano, young members of the the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are indexing historical records of more than 20,000 individuals, making them accessible to genealogists and hobbyists. The Orange County Register brought this interesting information to…
Read MoreSearch Gets Some Help
It may be possible that analytics engines could now take what was once the area of e-discovery and make effective enterprise search a reality across all company information. Search Content Management brought this news to our attention in their article, “How analytics engines could — finally — relieve enterprise search pain.” This may not seem…
Read MoreEnhancing the Service
The recent VIVO conference in Cambridge, MA was formed following a successful National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored project. In short, VIVO is an open source researcher profile system that enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines and institutions. It integrates with a number of other systems (HR, grants, faculty activity databases, and more) and has…
Read MoreNew Resources in New People
New employees offer a unique insight that they will lose in about six months. They offer the perspective of not knowing what came before and therefore they do not choose to do something because “that is how we have always done it.” Taking advantage of this time in onboarding can help them better understand what…
Read MoreNew Digital Library of News
Libraries are now able to provide their communities with a collection of newspapers ranging from well-known state and regional titles to small local newspapers in the United States and even other countries. This interesting information came from Ulitzer in their article, “ProQuest Launches Library Edition of Newspapers.com.” The Newspapers.com Library Edition comes from ProQuest and is…
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