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Zoe Harris to keynote ALPSP Conference & Awards 2016
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers has announced Zoe Harris from Trinity Mirror will be the keynote speaker at the 2016 ALPSP Conference and Awards. Her presentation is entitled ‘What can scholarly publishing learn from what newspapers have been through and where they are going?’
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Updated CAB Thesaurus provides a controlled vocabulary resource of almost 2.5 million descriptive terms
The 2016 edition of CAB Thesaurus – the largest source of terminology covering the applied life sciences –has been published. It provides a controlled vocabulary resource of nearly 2.5 million descriptive terms. CAB Thesaurus is projected as an essential tool for academic, corporate and government librarians, who need to navigate, retrieve and index vast amounts of data.
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The SAGE Handbook of Survey Methodology looks at the increasingly scientific nature and complexity of surveys
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the publication of The SAGE Handbook of Survey Methodology, exploring both the increasingly scientific endeavour of surveys and their growing complexity. As different data collection modes and information sources are combined and Survey Methodology becomes a more structured field of research, the Handbook provides an essential, up-to-date tool for researchers.
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HathiTrust US Federal Documents Registry now available as a beta release
The HathiTrust US Federal Documents Registry is now available as a beta release. The Registry is intended to be a comprehensive source of metadata for the US federal documents corpus – material produced at government expense since 1789. While many potential use cases exist, an important use will be the identification of materials that have not yet been digitised and/or deposited into the HathiTrust repository.
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Seventh profile in ARL series: University of Iowa Libraries support digital scholarship
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the seventh profile in a series highlighting digital scholarship support at ARL member libraries. The latest installment in this series features the work of the University of Iowa Libraries.
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OCLC partners with the Association of College & Research Libraries for collaborative project
Global library co-operative OCLC has announced a partnership with the Association of College & Research Libraries to design, develop and deliver a new ACRL agenda ‘Action-Oriented Research Agenda on Library Contributions to Student Learning and Success.’ The team will be led by OCLC’s Lynn Silipigni Connaway, joined by William Harvey, consulting software engineer at OCLC, and Vanessa Kitzie and Stephanie Mikitish, both doctoral candidates in the Library and Information Science program at Rutgers University.
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