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  Foreign Affairs releases digital archive of all back issues – back to 1922

  870 readers The complete archive (browse) is free for subscribers to the publication. FA just announced two new subscription plans. From FishbowlNY: The portal contains 8,000 articles from nearly 400 issues. There are also more than 300 images and maps. To help with navigation, and well, where to begin, the editors have organized articles into nine collections. In all, digitization was

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  Foreign Affairs releases digital archive of all back issues – back to 1922

  584 readers The complete archive (browse) is free for subscribers to the publication. FA just announced two new subscription plans. From FishbowlNY: The portal contains 8,000 articles from nearly 400 issues. There are also more than 300 images and maps. To help with navigation, and well, where to begin, the editors have organized articles into nine collections. In all, digitization was

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  HathiTrust: a research library at web scale

  2156 readersThis 10 page (PDF) article was written Heather Christenson, Project Manager-Mass Digitization at the California Digital Library in Oakland. This is a wonderful intro/review about all things HathiTrust. From the Abstract: Research libraries have a mission to build collections that will meet the research needs of their user communities over time, to curate these collections to

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  Royal Irish Academy releases ‘A History of Ireland in 100 Objects’ a new book app developed with Joe Zeff Design

  827 readersJust in time for St. Patrick Day comes "a gift from the people of Ireland" – A History of Ireland in 100 Objects, a free book app from the Royal Irish Academy. The new app was a project of the National Museum of Ireland, The Irish Times and the Royal Irish Academy, but TNM readers

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  For librarians: The 2011 Guide to Free or Nearly-Free e-Books, now available in the UK

  1990 readersThat’s the title of a new book by Chris Armstrong. I got the following email from him about it: One of the problems which face all librarians adding e-books to their collections is that of bibliographic control: there is no legal deposit for e-books and consequently there is no single place from which new titles

• Marie Lebert to Write an In-Depth History of eBooks on the Project Gutenberg Blog

  968 readersA few days ago I posted about a 15 page guide on the History of Project Gutenberg. You might recall that at the time I recommended keeping an eye on the PG blog. Mike Cook announced yesterday that he will be posting  translated copies of Marie Lebert’s series of articles on the history of eBooks. The

• Best of 2010: Most Popular Articles

  1933 readersFrom now until the end of the year, we will run lists of our best articles from 2010. Today’s list includes crowd-pleasers, our most popular articles for the whole of 2010. Should I Tweet Read the article >> The Translation Gap:...

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  BnF (National Library of France) Signs Deal With Jouve to Digitize 70,000 Books a Year

  3859 readersFrom a News Release: The Jouve Group will work in partnership with Safig, Diadéis and the subcontractor BancTec, to digitize more than 70,000 works per year [it's a three year deal] of which around 70% will come from the print collections of the BnF and 30% from the collections of partner libraries. Financed by the

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  Gale’s Nineteenth Century Collections Online Arrives at Academic Institutions Worldwide

  620 readersFrom the press release: Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced the availability of Nineteenth Century Collections Online, a groundbreaking multi-year global digitization and publishing program.Nineteenth Century Collections Online brings together rare primary source materials – monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps,

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  Springer to digitize their entire backlist, by Sue Polanka

  849 readers Will we ever have an eBook written by Albert Einstein?  YES!  Springer announced today plans to digitize their entire backlist, approximately 65,000 titles dating back to 1840.  Included are prominent authors  like Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Sir John Eccles, Lise Meitner, Werner Siemens, and Rudolf Diesel.  They anticipate the digitization process to be complete at