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Frankfurt Book Fair Coming Soon

By |September 21st, 2016|News, reference|Comments Off on Frankfurt Book Fair Coming Soon

The Frankfurt Book Fair is scheduled for October 19-23, 2016. Are you ready? With 275,000 visitors, 7,275 international exhibitors and 9,300 journalists and bloggers, Frankfurt […]

Open Access Journal Publishers Under Scrutiny

By |September 20th, 2016|News|Comments Off on Open Access Journal Publishers Under Scrutiny

In the last five years, open-access journals have appeared all over the Internet with websites that look familiar and trustworthy. Unfortunately sometimes looks can […]

Webinar on Predatory Open Access

By |September 16th, 2016|Business strategy, News|Comments Off on Webinar on Predatory Open Access

The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is once again offering educational opportunities through their “Lunch and Learn” webinar series. The next one is […]

New Resources for Scholars

By |September 13th, 2016|indexing, News, reference|Comments Off on New Resources for Scholars

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has introduced a new product to meet the increasing demands of scholarly research. The collection includes five multidiscipline databases, each […]

Typography in the Digital Age

By |September 13th, 2016|News, Technology|Comments Off on Typography in the Digital Age

Comic book nerds, typography nerds, and all those in the middle will find kinship with this topic. Fonts for every purpose have undergone significant […]

Fall Seminar Series in Digital Publishing

By |September 12th, 2016|Business strategy, News|Comments Off on Fall Seminar Series in Digital Publishing

The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) Committee for Digital Innovation (CDI) is once again offering a fall seminar […]

Libraries, Open Source, and eBooks – Oh My!

By |September 7th, 2016|News, reference|Comments Off on Libraries, Open Source, and eBooks – Oh My!

An open source server-software developer is working on a project at the New York Public Library (NYPL) that is intended to liberate every part […]

Open Access: Pro and Con

By |August 23rd, 2016|News|Comments Off on Open Access: Pro and Con

Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Pay It Forward project set out to determine the potential financial implications of a move to an all-open […]

The Strength of Your Taxonomy

By |August 17th, 2016|News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Strength of Your Taxonomy

Altmetric and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) have announced the integration of Altmetric badge visualizations and related data into the IEEE […]

Middle of the Road

By |August 12th, 2016|News|Comments Off on Middle of the Road

There has long been a debate between traditional paper book readers and those that embraced digital reading through various versions of e-readers. There are more than […]