Portal software will be updated.
Mercredi prochain, le 25 novembre 2009 entre 7 et 8 heures nous mettrons à jour le logiciel du portail bnu qui sera inaccessible pendant cette période.
How many journals in BNU portal?
As the number of eJournal in the portal is constantly changing, we now have a link that dynamically updates that number: http://tinyurl.com/yhb9cs6
The number shown is deduplicated (no eJournal is counted twice) and contains subscribed as well as open access eJournals.
Merci Michel!
Talk: Springer on Trends in science publishing
The University of Luxembourg is hosting a presentation on science publishing by Christian Caron, Springer Science and Business Media, Heidelberg.
“The internet has changed the way information is created, circulated, assessed, searched, retrieved and used. Often the great achievements e.g. in terms of easier access to information in general are emphasized, yet often litte is known about the challenges this poses to content providers from the technical and business point of views. The present talk gives an overview of these changes, challenges and opportunities at the academic/professional level of scientific publishing and in particular from the publisher’s point of view. Also, some selected new types of products and technical advances will be briefly reviewed.”
Springer made some waves a year ago when they purchased a large Open-Access publisher, Bio Med Central. This acquisition followed Springer’s “Open Choice” program, an “author-pays” model that makes all articles available in open access for everyone else.
> Langue: Anglais
> Date: 18.06. 17h30-18h30
> Lieu: Campus Kirchberg, auditoire B02
> Info et inscription: http://jeudis.uni.lu
Mendeley beta for managing research papers
Although it’s just 4 montsh old, Mendeley manages already over a million research papers (in pdf format). Their goal is to support the social component of research. Check out this video from a recent presentation in Hamburg. (Make sure to skip the video to 10:00, when the Mendeley presentation starts)
It really is a great example of the disruptive and innovative power of social technology combined with open data for reshaping the pretty broken Impact factor system and, well, advancing science. Venture capital provided by founders of Skype and Last-fm.
(Also of interest is the open reference manager Zotero)
New content May 2009
There is now a simple way to find out about new content available from Consortium Luxembourg:
http://metalib.etat.lu/V?func=meta-1&Init_type=NewList
(you must login to access licensed content)
The new consortium blog
This blog will become the information and news site for Consortium Luxembourg. It is run by the national library of Luxembourg. Planned launch date is mid-april.
The content that the consortium offers is accessible here: www.portail.bnl.lu
Please note that most subscription content requires a personal password which must be obtained in person, for example at the national library of Luxembourg (Restrictions apply).
Thanks and please do check back.