Gabriel García Márquez Archive Finds a Home at the Harry Ransom Center; La Salle University’s Connelly Library is Building a Bob Dylan Collection; London Higher and SPARC report on the cost to UK research organisations of implementing open access policies; Gates Foundation may call for immediate free access for journal articles Ebooks on a Plane: Oxford University Press and Emerge Education partner to support educational start-ups; HarperCollins and JetBlue Announce Partnership; Opportunity knocks: Take the HHI 2014 National Collections Care Survey; and EBSCO Discovery Service selected by 25 Russian and Belarusian universities.
Gabriel García Márquez Archive Finds a Home at the Harry Ransom Center
According to GalleyCat “the Harry Ransom Center, an institution based at the University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of the late Gabriel García Márquez.
The Nobel Prize-winning writer had passed on earlier this year. Some of the items in the García Márquez archive include letters, photo albums, typewriters, computers, scrapbooks, drafts of his 1982 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, and the manuscripts for One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Memories of My Melancholy Whore…”
La Salle University’s Connelly Library is Building a Bob Dylan Collection
InfoDOCKET reports that “La Salle University… runs what it believes to be the nation’s only academic collection focused on songwriter, poet, and troubadour Bob Dylan.
The archive holds loads of Dylaniana — more than 1,000 items, including rare bootleg records, concert posters, fan art, journals, DVDs, and tour T-shirts and programs. “They have hundreds, maybe even thousands, of recordings of Bob that aren’t readily available,” said Mark Sutton, an Australian who this year completed a doctorate on Dylan at the University of Sydney…”
London Higher and SPARC report on the cost to UK research organisations of implementing funder open access policies
According to KnowledgeSpeak “London Higher and SPARC Europe have commissioned a new report on the cost to UK research organisations of implementing funder open access policies. The report ‘Counting the Costs of Open Access’ highlights the compliance burden associated with the move to open access publication of research articles, and for the first time identifies the administrative cost of making articles open access through the ‘gold’ and ‘green’ routes…”
Gates Foundation may call for immediate free access for journal articles
KnowledgeSpeak also reports that “the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,…plans to require that the researchers it funds publish only in immediate open-access journals. The policy is expected to be initiated by January 2017. Until then, grantees can publish in subscription-based journals as long as their paper is freely available within 12 months…”
Oxford University Press and Emerge Education partner to support educational start-ups
In addition, KnowledgeSpeak notes that “Oxford University Press (OUP) recently announced a partnership with Emerge Education; confirming its commitment to supporting education technology (ed-tech) start-ups…
Ebooks on a Plane: HarperCollins and JetBlue Announce Partnership
InfoDOCKET also informs us that “HarperCollins Publishers today announced they will offer a selection of bestselling titles to JetBlue customers as the exclusive book content partner for the launch of JetBlue’s Fly-Fi content platform. Beginning today, customers on JetBlue flights equipped with Fly-Fi, the inflight Wi-Fi, will be able to read excerpts from more than twenty bestselling books published by HarperCollins, including Flesh and Blood by Patricia Cornwell, Yes Please by Amy Poehler, Endgame: The Calling by James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton and Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses by James Dean.
Opportunity knocks: Take the HHI 2014 National Collections Care Survey
Digital Dispatch alerts the library community of the opportunity to “preserve our shared heritage, increase funding for conservation, and strengthen collections care by completing the Heritage Health Information (HHI) 2014 National Collections Care Survey. The HHI 2014 is a national survey on the condition of collections held by archives, libraries, historical societies, museums, scientific research collections, and archaeological repositories. It is the only comprehensive survey to collect data on the condition and preservation needs of our nation’s collections…”
EBSCO Discovery Service selected by 25 Russian and Belarusian universities
According to Library Technology Guide “EBSCO Discovery Service … is now being used by more universities and academic institutions in Russia and Belarus. To date, 25 institutions have chosen EDS as their discovery solution…”