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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Clear obstacles to information and get back to innovating Copyright Clearance Center

Behind every innovation is the exchange of information, but getting to published material is often a long, frustrating road. According to research and advisory firm Outsell Inc., 43% of knowledge workers blamed time constraints for getting in the way of acquiring information.

Learn how to clear obstacles.

NewsBreaks
National Digital Stewardship Residents Present Their Preservation Projects
by Barbie E. Keiser
On May 5, 2016, the 2015-2016 Washington, D.C., cohort of the National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) program hosted a symposium, Digital Frenemies: Closing the Gap in Born-Digital and Made-Digital Curation (#ndsr16) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). ... Speakers from cultural heritage and academic institutions addressed the relationship between digitized and born-digital materials as they highlighted efforts to preserve complex software and game technologies through emulation, create cultural digital collections through mobile public library labs, collect and curate data, and resolve workflow issues and infrastructure challenges in large and small organizations.

Weekly News Digests
NISO Produces Three Recommended Practice Drafts on Altmetrics
NISO (National Information Standards Organization) released three draft recommended practices that are now open for public comment through June 11, 2016: Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communications: Data Metrics, Persistent Identifiers in Scholarly Communications, and Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communications.
OCLC Helps Spanish-Speaking Parents Find Books
OCLC partnered with UCI (Univision Communications, Inc.) to help parents using UCI's Key to Success discover nearby libraries and recommended books via WorldCat. Parents can use the Key to Success Reading Log to view grade-specific recommendations and then click on the image of a book to view it in WorldCat.
APA Rolls Out Data Mining Tool
The American Psychological Association (APA) launched PsycINFO Data Solutions, a publication and citation data mining service for content in APA's behavioral science databases. These databases consist of journals from more than 50 countries that are published in more than 29 languages.
Gale Debuts U.S. Fiction Primary Sources Archive
Gale added the new digital archive American Fiction, 1774-1920 to its Gale Primary Sources program. It offers more than 17,500 fictional works, such as novels and short stories, as well as fictitious biographies, travel accounts, and sketches.
3M Cloud Library Adds Pay-Per-Use Pricing
bibliotheca will introduce pay-per-use pricing models to the 3M Cloud Library. Instead of paying for content up front in full, libraries will be able to offer titles from publishers such as Blackstone Audio and Hachette Audio and pay only when a title is downloaded.

NewsLink Spotlight
Zepheira Helps Libraries Tell Their Stories on the Web
by Brandi Scardilli
Zepheira, a professional services turned product company, started working on unlocking data to reach new audiences, not only to attract new customers, but also to correct a problem its team was seeing: Not everyone's data was visible on the web. This was especially true for libraries and other cultural heritage institutions. Today, its main goal is to help libraries gain more visibility on the web through the use of linked data.

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Bookshelf
The Accidental Taxonomist, 3rd edition
The Accidental Taxonomist, 3rd edition
by Heather Hedden
Foreword by Stephanie Lemieux
The Accidental Taxonomist is the most comprehensive guide available to the art and science of building information taxonomies. Heather Hedden—a leading taxonomy expert and instructor—walks readers through the process, displaying her trademark ability to present highly technical information in straightforward, comprehensive English.

In this fully revised third edition, Hedden adds an entirely new chapter on ontologies, emphasizes the SKOS model of concepts over the traditional thesaurus model of terms, and provides new insights into taxonomy development techniques. She presents fresh survey data; new screenshots and examples; and updated information on software, career opportunities, and resources for taxonomists.

2022/502pp softbound/ISBN 978-1-57387-586-8 | $47.50


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