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OCLC selected to digitize historical California newspapers

Digitized newspapers will be publicly available via the Internet

OCLC has been selected by the University of California, Riverside (UCR) to digitize historical California newspapers. UCR was one of six organizations to be awarded a National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in 2005.

NEH awards a series of grants to one organization within each U.S. state or territory to collaborate with relevant partners in support of the NDNP, a joint venture of the NEH and the Library of Congress to create a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all U.S. states and territories published between 1836 and 1922.

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Academic journal publishing trends

A survey of 400 academic journal publishers found that:

90 percent of the journals are now available online
A fifth of the publishers are experimenting with open access journals
40 percent of publishers use previous print subscriptions as the base for pricing for bundles
Most publishers make agreements for either one year or three years
91 percent of publishers make back volumes available online; 20 percent charge for access to back volumes
42 percent have established formal arrangements for the long-term preservation of their journals
83 percent require authors to transfer copyright in their articles to the publisher

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OCLC designated maintenance agency for OpenURL Standard

OCLC and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have announced that OCLC will assume responsibilities as Maintenance Agency for The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services (ANSI/NISO Z39.88-2004) for a period of five years. The standard defines architecture for creating a context-sensitive networked service environment.

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OCLC welcomes this new member library

Brownsville Public Library
Location: Brownsville, Wisconsin, USA
OCLC Symbol: BPLWI
OCLC Network: WILS

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WorldCat update

WorldCat is the world’s most comprehensive bibliographic database. Updated at a rate of nearly one new record every 10 seconds, WorldCat contains more than 70 million bibliographic records and 1 billion holdings contributed by more than 9,000 libraries around the world. The Open WorldCat program makes the items in library collections—physical and digital, popular or special—discoverable by people searching the Internet.

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