110 research outputs found
Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia
No full textIn late 2009 the National Library of Australia released version 1 of Trove [1] to the public. Trove is a free search engine. It searches across a large aggregation of Australian content. The treasure is over 90 million items from over 1000 libraries, museums, archives and other organisations which can be found at the click of a button. Finding information just got easier for many Australians. Exploring a wealth of resources and digital content like never before, including full-text books, journals and newspaper articles, images, music, sound, video, maps, Web sites, diaries, letters, archives, people and organisations has been an exciting adventure for users and the service has been heavily used. Finding and retrieving instantly information in context; interacting with content and social engagement are core features of the service. This article describes Trove features, usage, content building, and its applications for contributors and users in the national context
Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums. Part 3: Recommendations and Readings
No full textRecommendations on social metadata features most relevant to libraries, archives, and museums and an annotated reading list of the literature the research group consulted during our research. We believe it is riskier to do nothing and become irrelevant to our user communities than to start using social media features
The Limits Placed by EEC Law on Territorial Protection in Patent Licensing: A Case Study in Community Law-Making
No full textIn this article, Mr. Holley examines the ways in which the EEC Commission\u27s interpretations of the EEC Treaty, European Court decisions, and suggestions made by Member States and industry influence the development of EEC law. By focusing on the Commission\u27s draft patent licensing regulation, the author identifies existing conflicts between preserving patent rights and the EEC objectives of protecting competition and the free flow of goods among the Member States
The permanent way and coal-burning locomotive boilers of European railways; with a comparison of the working economy of European and American lines, and the principles upon which improvement must proceed.
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Self-published Books - A Challenge for Traditional Collection Development, Acquisitions, and Cataloging
No full textRobert P. Holley, Professor Emeritus, Wayne State University
Self-publishing in the United States has increased to between 50-75% of book titles published annually, facilitated by the popularity of ebooks and print-on-demand. Amazon.com and other companies have encouraged the trend by paying royalties and providing support to authors. Self-published books can be indistinguishable from trade publications but fall outside many of the structures of traditional publishing. Since both public and academic libraries have reasons to acquire self-published materials, the author believes that ways should be found to provide increased bibliographic control since the current system mostly ignores self-published materials. The Library of Congress does not purchase many and excludes them from Cataloging in Publication so that records for shared cataloging are often lacking. Most library vendors do not include them in their inventories. The major library reviewing sources do not publish book reviews or do so separately from reviews from commercial publications. Libraries thus find it difficult and more costly to identify important self-published books, acquire them from their traditional vendors, and find acceptable cataloging.
Some libraries, mostly public, have nonetheless started collecting self-published items, a majority by local authors, and are adding records to the OCLC database. Another positive factor is the large number of reader-generated reviewing sources such as Goodreads. A blogger has proposed a cooperative project to purchase and place self-published materials under bibliographic control. Since, according to Publishers Weekly, fifteen of the 100 bestselling books of 2012 were self-published, libraries, bibliographic agencies, library organizations, and traditional publishers should monitor developments as self-publishing becomes increasingly important
The buying of homes by negroes in a previously all white neighborhood in Montgomery, Alabama, 1968
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Layered double hydroxide-organic hybrids as water-soluble mamocomposites for drug delivery
No full textA series of sulfonated polystyrene-layered double hydroxide (PSS-LOH) nanocomposites have been prepared and characterized, in order to analyze structure-property relationships of polymer LOH composites, based on differences in charge density and molecular weight of the macromolecule. Ultimately, understanding of these relationships will be used as a tool to achieve target properties for a specific application, namely drug delivery. In this study, sulfonated polystyrene is a random copolymer composed of various fractions (or percentages) of both polystyrene and sulfonated polystyrene units. Varying the structure of PSS and the preparation method of the PSS-LDH nanocomposites is useful for influencing crystallinity; and controlling particle size, d-spacing, binding strength and the drug release rate of the nanocomposites. X-Ray diffraction crystallographic measurements indicate that for polystyrene with sulfonation levels less than 13% and molecular weight higher than 8xl 03 gmol"1 , adsorption of the macromolecule occurs at the surface of the LDHs, resulting in a reduction in stability as determined by thermogravimetric analysis and NMR spectroscopy. However, at a minimum of approximately 13% sulfonation of8x103 gmor1 polystyrene, polymer-LOH interactions become more favorable relative to the properties exhibited by pristine LOH. These properties include small particle size measured by dynamic light scattering, higher thermal stability and an increase in charge transfer between PSS and LDH. Drug release studies from the optimal PSS/PEG-LDH composite with model drug Rhodamine B base (RhBB) are promising and illustrate a slow and multiphasic release mechanism at the physiological pH of blood. Therefore, PSS-LDH nanocomposites composed of lower molecular weight polystyrene, at higher levels of sulfonation and end sulfonated PEG, are excellent materials for preparing water-soluble drug delivery systems. We have also determined that 1H NMR spectroscopy can be used as a tool to quickly predict the sequence of d-spacing, crystallinity and stability in a polymer-LOH sample set. The nanocomposites are currently being fabricated using folic acid conjugated PEG for targeted drug delivery in vitro
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