While many science publishers put a paywall in front of scientific articles, it’s often the case that these articles have been published elsewhere in an open format. “More and more funders and universities are requiring authors to upload copies of their papers to [open] repositories. This has created a deep resource of legal open access papers…” And that’s what Unpaywall draws on. READ MORE: Discover “Unpaywall,” a New (and Legal) Browser Extension That Lets You Read Millions of Science Articles Normally Locked Up Behind Paywalls | Open Culture
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Download 422 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Open Culture
You could pay $118 on Amazon for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s catalog The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. Or you could pay $0 to download it at MetPublications, the site offering “five decades of Met Museum publications on art history available to read, download, and/or search for free.” If that strikes you as an obvious choice, prepare to spend some serious time browsing MetPublications’ collection of free art books and catalogs. READ MORE: Download 422 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Open Culture.
Awesomely Gross Medical Illustrations From the 19th Century | WIRED
In the 19th century, doctors couldn’t use photographs to teach their students to distinguish between benign or cancerous growths. Or how teeth looked in patients affected by hereditary syphilis. Or the stages of cholera.
So the physicians, surgeons, and anatomists of the 1800s built close relationships with artists, craftsmen, and publishers to produce beautiful (yet horrifically off-putting at times) illustrations. In The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration, Richard Barnett collects up the best examples of these images. They—and the accompanying chapters of text, organized by disease—are endlessly fascinating.
Excerpted from The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration, by Richard Barnett, published this month by Distributed Art Publishers.
VIA: Awesomely Gross Medical Illustrations From the 19th Century | Science | WIRED.
Take a Tour of the New British Library Newspaper Reading Room | LJ INFOdocket
23 Resources for Getting Published in the Library Field | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org
Are you wondering how to break into the publishing world as a librarian? If so, here are over 20 resources to get you started on your journey to publication bliss!
See 23 Resources for Getting Published in the Library Field | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org.
Worldwide National Library Catalogs | OEDB.org
National libraries are tasked with the centuries-long responsibility of preserving books and documents that keep a country’s history and heritage safe through war, disaster, and the passage of time. They’re also responsible for sharing these vast and valuable documents with citizens of the country, and the world.
National libraries are the absolute best resource for finding publications within any given country. This is thanks to legal deposit, legislation in many countries that requires publishers to provide the national library with a copy of each publication. In some countries, this even includes digital publications.
Through national library catalogs, you can search all of the publications within a country. Many national libraries also offer extensive digital collections, offering online researchers access to documents of historical importance, official publications, even images and video.
via Worldwide National Library Catalogs – OEDB.org.
The post provides a comprehensive list of Worldwide National Library Catalogs, including 3 from Canada.
Confirmed: Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley For $69M-$100M To Expand Its Open, Social Education Data Efforts | TechCrunch
10 Great Technology Initiatives for Your Library | American Libraries Magazine
These are all great ideas but I particularly like “use crowdsourcing to create a collection.” With this initiative you can invite employees and patrons/visitors to participate and the collection can have a local or community focus as a result.
10 Great Technology Initiatives for Your Library | American Libraries Magazine.
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LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Jump-starting a career as a digital librarian
“The skills of digital librarianship are more crucial than ever, and these same skills are in high demand outside the field, from tech startups undertaking digitization projects to digital humanities centers bringing together professors, computer scientists and information technologists. “Jump-Start Your Career As a Digital Librarian: A LITA Guide,” published by ALA Neal-Schuman, helps readers map out a career in this fast-growing field.”
via LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Jump-starting a career as a digital librarian
Elsevier In Advanced Talks To Buy Mendeley For Around $100M To Beef Up In Social, Open Education Data | TechCrunch
This acquisition by Elsevier seems smart, forward thinking to me. It would be interesting to hear the opinions of researchers on this deal, with Mendeley being such a popular tool. Better Elsevier than ThomsonReuters in my opinion…just a better fit.
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