OCLC has completed a project, funded in part by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, to develop a shared entity management infrastructure that supports linked data initiatives in the library community. As a result of this effort, OCLC has released millions of authoritative WorldCat Entities through a publicly searchable website and will continue to partner with libraries to develop the tools needed to fully incorporate linked data into library workflows and improve resource discovery through connections.
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Published on 19 May, a collection created by Wiley Digital Archives in partnership with Jisc and the British Science Association, has accumulated more than 930,000 pages of scientific archive material.
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) has made a group commitment to support the new Reveal Digital publishing program Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements. All 15 member libraries are participating in this agreement, which totals more than $500,000.
These are generally published in the first quarter of each year, slightly delayed this year to enable CrossRef to make critical new metadata fields available, including resource URLs and titles with markup.
Coherent Digital and Jisc extended their agreement for Policy Commons this week, in a move that sees further collaboration between the two organisations until 31 March 2024.
EBSCO introduces CINAHL® Ultimate and MEDLINE® Ultimate to offer nursing and medical students the largest full-text collections of leading journals and literature from all over the world. The new resources offer more full text of top journals and international coverage than any other CINAHL or MEDLINE database.
CLOCKSS announced it is teaming up with eleven additional publishers to preserve their publications. Content covering medical, legal, public policy and scientific subjects will now be safeguarded for future generations of researchers.
The first collection in development will focus on the African American civil rights era and will draw on primary source materials from predominantly Black colleges and universities, historical societies, public libraries, community archives, and other institutions. This collection will expand the historical record available for study to include previously unknown voices from the front lines of the movement.
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) has launched its latest exhibition, Let None Be Excluded, as a hybrid gallery and digital experience that explores the struggle for educational rights in Salem, Massachusetts, which led to equal education advocacy and reform across America.
Comprising government papers drawn from The National Archives, UK, Adam Matthew Digital's second module of Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, titled Foundations of Economic Growth and Industrialisation 1967-1980, charts a period of immense change and development across the region.