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Article by Rafael: “Offering their content through open APIs, publishers and platform providers can present researchers with application building tools based on more comprehensive content. In fact, publishers and platform providers have an opportunity to serve as the host of the new scientific knowledge ecosystem that is evolving.”
Tag Archive for 'apis'
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SJR & SNIP jounral metrics introduced to Scopus. APIs for Author Profiles. Improved Cited-By Count integration. Some interface tweaks.
The videos of the Belgrade lectures are now loaded on the University of Belgrade Library’s YouTube channel.
The second day’s presentation was the more interesting topic and a better presentation overall, so I am going to highlight it first. A written overview of the highlights, key diagrams, and slides is here and the playlist for the second lecture is embedded below:
The first day’s presentation was titled From Academic Library 2.0 to (Literature) Research 2.0. A written overview of the highlights, key diagrams, and slides is located here and the playlist is embedded below:
I look forward to any feedback you might have on either presentation.
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“However, the agreement does not address fair use—it addresses what can be published using the Creative Commons open license that supports our publication.” – Comment to article by Steve Carson of OpenCourseWare.
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Elsevier Library Connect Newsletter: Introduction from Rafael Sidi“Figuring out how best to use Web 2.0 technologies to improve and ease our customers’ lives and solve customers’ needs seems harder than identifying such technologies. Helping us get a leg up in that area, helping us decide how and where to use Web 2.
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“Scopus Search API Technology Powers Topcited.com Presenting the Most Cited Articles Across 26 Subject Areas”
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The Society for Preservation of Hebrew Books & HebrewBooks.org (about page)
This non-profit has a mission to preserve all Torah Seforim ever printed. So far they have 11,000 classical Hebrew books available for download.
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PublishYourSefer.com – About Our Reprints Program
This company partners with HebrewBooks.org and Lulu.com (disclosure: I am an employee of Lulu) to offer on-demand reprinting for over 12,000 books. Wow! How is this done?…
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Lulu Web Services (Lulu API)
This is accomplished through the Lulu api, which “allows partners and outside developers to programmatically publish books.” Given that Lulu authors maintain full ownership of their books, why can’t libraries offer on-demand reprints of digitized books?
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PublishYourSefer’s sister site, They offer consulting and services for digitizing collections, using print on demand to “monetize” collections, Also have periodicals and books for purchase.
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[CODE4LIB] Using OpenID in libraries
A discussion. (Thanks Jay)
