Archives for the ‘Reference and Electronic Resources’ Category

Online Training Highlights New Wilson Database Features

H.W. Wilson is offering free 30-minute Web-delivered training sessions to highlight new features on the WilsonWeb platform and in specific Wilson databases, including the following:

A new slideshow feature for all films included in Cinema Image Gallery.
In all WilsonWeb databases, an option to conveniently change the interface font size.
Web 2.0 user-commenting in the Current Issues [...]

Grant Opportunity from the NEH: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Program

Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant
The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be  accepting applications for grants in its Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program.  These grants support projects to preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and [...]

Scholarly Publishing: More Mergers

Very important news from the Scholarly Kitchen blog: “Publishing giants Springer, Elsevier, and Wiley-Blackwell will merge, according to a leaked document that made its way into the Scholarly Kitchen late last night.”Philip Davis under, The Scholarly Kitchen, Nov 1991
A must read for academic librarians!