links for 2009-05-25
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“The Bloomsbury Library Online is a growing home for reading through your local library. Our online bookshelves include book group titles, children’s history books, teen fiction, international fiction, books in translation, prize winners, crime, thrillers, history, sports and Shakespeare. Readers can read the book, search the text, access author interviews, reviews and press features as well as reading group guides if applicable.
Each bookshelf is available on annual subscription and will be charged according to the population served. New titles will be added to each bookshelf free-of-charge within the subscription year where appropriate. New themed bookshelves will also be created regularly. Access to the content will be through UK Public Libraries using their existing technology both within the libraries and remotely with the use of a library card on home computers and internet enabled devices.
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“Les documentalistes sont en première ligne, dès qu'il s'agit de donner des mesures bibliométriques servant d'indicateur à la recherche. Leur expertise peut permettre d'analyser et de qualifier les différents outils et indicateurs existants, tels le web of science, le classement de Shanghai, le « H index », l'Impact Factor, etc., et de permettre aux décideurs de connaître les avantages et les biais de ces outils et indicateurs.[…]”
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“Purpose of the platform is to facilitate information gathering and exchange, and common development of ideas and projects among the multi-stakeholder team for each Action Line through collaborative and community oriented online tools.[…]”
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“eSciDoc is a cooperation project between Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG) and Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe (FIZ Karlsruhe).
The aim of the project is the development of an re-usable infrastructure and disciplin-specific solutions to support scientific communication and publication in research organizations. The CoLab pages that are organised in this portal and in the overall category eSciDoc provide insight in ongoing work and first deliverables and are the main platform for exchange with interested partners, pilots and projects.[…]”
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“Joint IFLA/IPA Statement on Open Access
A joint statement released by the International Publishers Association, the International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical (STM) Publishers, and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) calls for a more rational, evidence based debate on open access. It encourages experimentation and piloting of new concepts and ideas, whilst acknowledging that the differences in the different academic disciplines and publishing traditions may lead to differentiated approaches and business models in support of authors[…]”