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  New digital cultural heritage resource from the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin

  999 readers From Heritage Portal: An open-access visual archive of architecture and sculpture Gothic Past is an open-access visual archive of Irish medieval architecture and sculpture that showcases thousands of photographs and drawings of medieval Irish architecture and sculpture. The site was launched by the Provost of Trinity College Dublin, Dr Patrick Prendergast, on February

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  5 million manuscripts, films and texts for Europeana

  1518 readersFrom the press release: Work begins this week to add over 5 million digital objects to Europeana from 19 of Europe’s leading research and university libraries. The project is called Europeana Libraries and it will put many of these treasures online for the first time. It will also add extensive collections from Google Books, theses,

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  The University of Melbourne to expand iPad pilot program

  2751 readersTrinity College has just released a report on the first phase of its iPad pilot program. This phase ran from August 2010 to January 2011, and it included 44 students and 24 staff. The range of subjects taught with iPads in Phase Two will expand from ...

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  Gale adds Medieval and Renaissance work to British Literary Manuscripts Online

  1540 readersFrom the press release: Gale, part of Cengage Learning, today announced the release of British Literary Manuscripts Online, Medieval and Renaissance, the second installment of the British Literary Manuscripts Online series. Following the release of the first installment in May 2009, this new digital archive brings approximately 565,000 pages of unique author manuscripts into the

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  Europeana digitizing contemporary art

  1921 readersFrom the press release: Today, the European Commission and the DCA consortium, comprising 25 partners from 10 EU member states and the 2 associated countries, Croatia and Iceland, have officially launched the project Digitising Contemporary Art (DCA) initiating a significant increase in the presence of contemporary art in Europeana, the single access point to Europe’s

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  BTB #167: ‘All Access Pass’ For Global Science

  1446 readers“What goes around, comes around” may well serve as the motto of an effort undertaken by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) to provide access to premium online research journals in developing nations. Research4Life is the collective name for three public-private partnerships which seek to help achieve the UN’s Millennium Development

• Harlequin Authors Laud Its New(ish) Author Portal, Author Concierge

  275 readersHarlequin, like other major publishers and self-publishing services providers, is attempting to woo authors with improved services. To that end, it has launched an author portal, which will give its authors access to sales data and more. Though the portal was launched in Oct. 2012, in the release below, Harlequin authors praise it and the company’s

• Cengage’s Gale Digitizes Magazine’s Historical Archive for Students

  464 readers PRESS RELEASE: Gale Digitizes Popular 20th Century Weekly For Students and Scholars Liberty Magazine Historical Archive Provides a Unique Perspective on American History Farmington Hills, MI, May 17, 2012 – The historical archive of Liberty Magazine, long considered one of the greatest magazines in America, is now available in a digital format from Gale, a leading publisher of

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  Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog updated for January

  1643 readersYou can find it here January 31, 2011 Aslib Proceedings 63, no. 1 (2011): Includes “EIAH Data Model: Semantic Interoperability among Distributed Digital Repositories” and other articles. Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography, Version 2. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2011. Collection Building 30, no. 1 (2011): Includes “Use Of E-journals among Research Scholars at

• ProQuest Teams up With French National Library to Digitize 70,000 Old Works

  246 readers [Press Release] ProQuest and Bibliotheque National de France Advance Access to Important and Rare Works via Early European Books Program Digitization of 70,000 early volumes accelerates initiative to build survey of printing In Europe to 1700 ProQuest and the Bibliotheque national de France (BnF) in Paris are joining forces to expand access to the Library’s rich historical treasures.