ATG News You Need to Start the Week 4/17/17 | Against The Grain

lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-04-19

Summary:

"E-Books Decline 16.4% and Audiobooks increase by 29.2%;   *Library and Archives Canada to move catalogue to WorldCat, use OCLC WMS as its library services platform;   *Pearson to partner with Chegg on textbook rentals;   *University of Cincinnati announces participation in Open Access Monograph Publishing Initiative;   *The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL) Acquires Papers of Literary Icon James Baldwin;   *Cornell University Library Releases Over 1700 Digitized Items From Hip Hop Collection Documenting Hip Hop’s Rise;   *Pre-1870 Copyright Records, Over 2000 Pages of Records Available;   *UH Press wins $90K grant for open-access publishing;   *Wharton Research Data Services, SSRN and Elsevier announce new collaboration – elevating research and researchers using WRDS;  and  *ProQuest and CALIS bring Chinese scholarship to a global audience;  plus more library and publishing news from a variety of sources."

Link:

http://www.against-the-grain.com/2017/04/atg-news-you-need-to-start-the-week-41717/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks

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oa.new oa.libraries oa.infrastructure oa.textbooks oa.publishers oa.u.cincinnati oa.universities oa.usa.oh oa.usa oa.nypl oa.glam oa.digitization oa.copyright oa.up oa.u.hawaii_press oa.u.hawaii oa.usa.hi oa.funding oa.publishing oa.green oa.china oa.pearson oa.images oa.books oa.repositories oa.hei oa.asia

Date tagged:

04/19/2017, 18:23

Date published:

04/19/2017, 14:23