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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Although the site has been online since October, it’s now official, iEEEXplore has joined a growing number (see below) of publishers and aggregators providing mobile-friendly access to their databases with IEEE Xplore Mobile. From the Announcement: IEEE has launched its first mobile version of the IEEE Xplore digital library. You can now easily perform searches [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
From the Article: Europeana, the European Digital Library, is the aggregator of European cultural content. Interoperability is at the heart of what Europeana is doing: integrating format types across borders, across domains and between institutions. Museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual (AV) collections have different histories, user-groups and purposes. These are reflected in their diverse...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
From the Article: A searchable map detailing 40 years of Israeli archaeological work in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, developed for the USC Digital Library, has won the 2009 Open Archaeology Prize from the American Schools of Oriental Research. [Snip] Project leaders Lynn Swartz Dodd of USC and Rafi Greenberg of Tel Aviv University are expected to [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
From the Announcement: Working together with the National Archives and Allen County Library, Footnote.com has created a unique collection that will help people discover new details about Native American history. The Footnote Interactive Native American Collection features original historical documents including: + Ratified Indian Treaties – dating back to 1722 + Indian Census Rolls – featuring...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
From the Announcement: A year after its launch by 25 leading U.S. research libraries, HathiTrust Digital Library announces a service that will transform how researchers use the more than 1.6 billion pages (4.6 million volumes) in its collections. The breakthrough allows for full-text searching capabilities across the entire library. Researchers can now search public domain and in-copyright [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
We are looking forward to spending some quality time with this very high quality resources (that’s also free). If nothing else, it really shows off the power of digital archives and digitization. From the Announcement: The highly-anticipated Shakespeare Quartos Archive has been officially launched today with a complete digital collection of rare early editions of Hamlet. For [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The update consists of a four page PDF. Here’s a list of some of the topics covered. Access the full text to get all of the details. Ingest HathiTrust ingested a record 553,963 volumes in October. These included nearly 5,000 volumes from Penn State and initial loads of volumes from the University of California’s Santa Cruz [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
From the Announcement: The British Library has added the 500,000th item to its long-term Digital Library System. The milestone item was a digitised copy of a newspaper originally published in 1864 and scanned as part of the Library’s 19th Century British Library Newspapers project, which recently made more than 2 million pages of historic newspapers available [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
From the Announcement: A JISC funded study is making recommendations to help people find university research outputs through better integration of library catalogues, research repositories and other university systems. The JISC-funded ‘Online catalogue and repository interoperability study’ carried out by the Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde suggests...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
From the Web Site: The Princeton Seminary library is delighted to be working in partnership with the Internet Archive, a 501(c)3 organization in San Francisco, to digitize a selection of out-of-copyright books from its collections. Approximately 21,000 items have been scanned to date. These books include historical sources about Princeton and Princeton Seminary, early editions of [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
From an Announcement: ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) announced today that it is providing its institutional library customers with advanced electronic archiving services to preserve their valuable electronic resources. These services, provided by Portico and CLOCKSS, address the scholarly community’s critical need for long-term solutions that assure reliable, secure, deliverable...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Brewster Kahle has many titles. These days he’s best known as founder of the Internet Archive (home of The Wayback Machine) and founding member of the Open Content Alliance. From the Article: “We have to have universal access to everything, just like a library,” he says. “Do we want that under a single corporation’s control? It [...]
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Information Today (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), an on-demand digital library for technology, digital media, and business professionals, announced the launch of Safari Books Online 6.0. This new product release features new functionality such as an interactive reading experience, dynamic content categorization, community and collaboration features, and enhanced search functionality.
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Every now and then a fee-based product comes around that we believe deserves your attention. The following is one of them. Chris Pendleton on the Bing Blog reminds us that a major digitization project, every issue ever published of National Geographic from 1887-2008, is now available (it was officially released yesterday according to this media [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Our friends at TeleRead.org let us know about a new digitization manual from Cornell University Library. From the Announcement: “Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums,” a new book published today by Cornell University Library, can help professionals at these institutions answer that question. Based on a well-received Australian...
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patrickguillard | 11/20/2008
From now on, more than two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archival documents, paintings and films from national libraries and cultural institutions of the EU's 27 Member States are available online
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Peter Brooke | 11/10/2008
In recent months, Google has been working diligently to digitize the print world. Google has scanned millions of works and successfully digitized them for its new Book Search program, allowing for the contents of the books to be searchable and available on the internet. Like many of Google’s recent business ventures, the Book Search Program has not gone without some controversy. There have been arguments...
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thecollective | 10/24/2008
The European Union is in the process of creating an immense digital backup of European civilization in the form of an online encyclopedia called Europeana. The project aims to digitize the continent's national libraries, museums and archives and will include books, photos, maps, paintings and films - all accessible worldwide without subscription.
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