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Current Awareness
Get PDFDo you feel news from the world of information passes you by? That you can’t keep up withthe rapidly-changing e-publishing sector? Don’t worry – we have solved the problem for you.This column is created by a team of information specialists based both in the US and the UK.They check a range of leading periodicals to make sure you are kept informed about thelatest developments of relevance from them. Subjects covered include e-publishing,information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, preservation and virtual libraries
Reference Management
Get PDFThe aim of this column is to highlight those tools that support the management of references– the main stable of the information profession. The use of such tools has grown exponentially over the last decade, and now the decisions on which one to use is based on identifyingwhere references are obtained from (propriety software, websites), the budget (open-sourceverses commercial) and the resources available (for example, how good is the support)
Current Awareness
Get PDFDo you feel news from the world of information passes you by? That you can’t keep up withthe rapidly-changing e-publishing sector? Don’t worry – we have solved the problem for you.This column is created by a team of information specialists based both in the US and the UK.They check a range of leading periodicals to make sure you are kept informed about thelatest developments of relevance from them. Subjects covered include e-publishing,information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, preservation and virtual libraries
Developing Trove: the policy and technical challenges
Get PDFIn September 2008 the National Library of Australia embarked on a project to develop apowerful new discovery service to expose the wealth of information in Australian collections.The new service, branded “Trove”, was released in December 2009. Trove is not onlyreplacing eight legacy services, but is improving the discovery experience for the Australianpublic and researchers by including more content and by allowing users to engage with thecontent. This paper will describe the policy and technical challenges which were faced by theLibrary during this project, and will outline the Library’s plans for the further development ofTrove