American Sermons, Series 1 & 2, 1652‐1819

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-17
Author(s):  
Robert H. Ellison ◽  
Larry Sheret
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Original Source ◽  
Text Databases ◽  
Link Type

American Sermons is one of the latest offerings from Readex, which describes itself as a publisher of “many of the most widely used collections of primary source research materials in academic libraries” (<<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.readex.com/who-we-are-what-we-do">https://www.readex.com/who-we-are-what-we-do</ext-link>>). This database contains over 8,000 sermons and tools to analyze quickly across multiple original source documents.There are a handful of other sermon indexes and full-text databases, both Open Access and subscription-based; this product offers several robust and unique features that help to set it apart from others of its kind.

scholarly journals Open access full-text databases in Asian countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tae-Sul Seo
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Text Databases

Building virtual collection and Spanish colonial imprints of the Philippines

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-88
Author(s):  
Liladhar R. Pendse
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Rare Books

Purpose The access to the rare originals of the early Spanish colonial imprints of the Philippines remains problematic. The reference librarians often are restricted to directing the students and scholars to the secondary resources that are available both in print and as a part of the digital assets within the North American academic libraries. This paper aims to focus on the select primary source editions including select Spanish language colonial imprints that are available electronically on the Web along the Open Access. These Web-based resources serve as the reference tools for the early history of the Philippines and Southeast Asia. As many of these publications are rare and extremely expensive for most libraries, the Open Access resources serve as an aid to building a virtual collection of these items. Design/methodology/approach The author had to create a data set of the early imprints of the Spanish Philippines using several bibliographic resources. The data set will be submitted as an Appendix for this research paper. The author did both qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data set along with the voyant-based digital humanities approach for topic modeling. Findings The goals of this paper were to not only survey the early Spanish printing of the Philippines but also provide the reader with a somewhat complete picture of how the printing began in the Spanish Philippines, what kind of the first books were printed and how one can access them given their rarity and fragility. The collection building paradigms are undergoing significant shifts, and the focus of many academic libraries is shifting toward providing access to these items. As these items high-value low-use items continue to be part of the Special Collections, the access to these is problematic. The virtual collections thus serve as a viable alternative that enables further research and access. While the creators of these works are long gone, the legacy of the Spanish colonial domination, printing and the religious orders in the Philippines remain alive through these works. Research limitations/implications As this is an introductory paper, the author focused on the critical editions rather than providing a comprehensive bibliographic landscape of the presses that produced these editions. He also did not take into consideration many pamphlets that were published in the same period. He also did not consider the Chinese language publications of the Islands. The Chinese had been block printing since medieval times (Little, 1996). In the context of the Spanish Philippines, the Chinese migration and trade have been studied in detail by Chia (2006), Bjork (1998) and Gebhardt (2017). The scope of this paper also was centered toward building a virtual collection of these rare books. Practical implications Rare books are often expensive and out-of-reach for many libraries; the virtual collection of the same along the Open Access model represents an alternative to collect and curate these collections. The stewardship of these collections also acquires a new meaning in the digital milieu. Social implications This research paper will allow scholars to see past the analog editions and help them focus on curating a virtual collection. The questions of electronic access are often ignored when it comes to visiting and using them in a controlled environment of the reading room in the Special Collections. The author argues that one way to enable access to these rare and expensive books is to provide access to their digital counterparts. These digital/virtual surrogates of the originals will facilitate further research. Originality/value The author could not find similar research on the publications of the early Spanish colony of the Philippines.

scholarly journals Erratum to: Voltage-gated Sodium Channels and Blockers: An Overview and Where Will They Go?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi-mei Li ◽  
Li-xia Chen ◽  
Hua Li
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Sodium Channels ◽  
Voltage Gated ◽  
Internet Portal ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Voltage Gated Sodium Channels

The article “Voltage-gated Sodium Channels and Blockers: An Overview and Where Will They Go?”, written by Zhi-mei LI, Li-xia CHEN, Hua LI, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal on December 2019 without open access. With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice, the copyright of the article is changed to © The Author(s) 2020 and the article is forthwith distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The original article has been corrected.Corresponding authors: Li-xia CHEN, Hua LI

Catalogs, Indexes, and Full Text Databases

2006 ◽  
Vol 45 (94) ◽  
pp. 191-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Kawula ◽  
Arlene Weible
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Text Databases

scholarly journals Menjadi Juru Kunci Islam Nusantara: Peran Perpustakaan dalam Melestarikan Naskah Islam Nusantara

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-282
Author(s):  
Parhan Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Automation System ◽  
Branding Strategy ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Original Source ◽  
The World

Abstrak Indonesia adalah negara dengan komunitas Muslim terbanyak di dunia. Corak keislaman di Indonesia juga memilik kekhasan tersendiri, yang berbeda dengan sumber aslinya di Timur Tengah. Salah satu cara memahami corak keislaman Indonesia adalah dengan mempelajari naskah-naskah Islam Nusantara yang tersebar di Indonesa, sampai ke negara-negara tetangga. Keberadaan naskah itu tentu menjadi kekayaan tak ternilai untuk bangsa kita, sehingga sangat perlu untuk dilestarikan. Perpustakaan sebagai lembaga yang berfungsi untuk mengumpulkan, mengelola, dan menyebarkan informasi, perannya dalam pelestarian naskah Islam Nusantara sudah pasti sangat diperlukan. Perpustakaan bahkan dapat menjadikan kekayaan naskah Islam Nusantara tersebut sebagai strategi branding untuk bersaing dengan perpustakaan lainnya. Selain mengumpulkan informasi tentang naskah, mengolah dan menyebarkan informasi tentang naskah Islam Nusantara, perpustakaan juga harus memiliki pustakawan-pustakawan yang handal dan mumpuni dalam melestarikan naskah Islam Nusantara. Keberadaan Database Sumber Primer Islam Nusantara yang nantinya akan diintegrasikan dengan sistem otomasi di perpustakaan Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora (FAH) UIN Jakarta, akan menjadikan perpustakaan FAH sebagai perpustakaan yang memiliki distingsi dan keunggulan tersendiri dibanding perpustakaan lainnya.---Abstract Indonesia is the country with the largest Muslim community in the world. Islamic pattern in Indonesia also picks its own peculiarities, which is different from the original source in the Middle East. One way to understand the Indonesian Islamic style is by studying Islamic texts of archipelago scattered Indonesa, even to neighboring countries. The existence of the manuscript that will become invaluable wealth for our nation needs to be preserved. The library as an institution whose function is to collect, manage, and disseminate information, its role in the preservation of Islamic manuscripts archipelago is definitely indispensable. Libraries can even make the wealth of the archipelago of Islamic texts as a branding strategy to compete with other libraries. In addition to collecting information about the script, process and disseminate information on Islam Nusantara manuscripts, the library must also have librarians who are reliable and qualified in preserving texts of Islam Nusantara.  The existenceof primary source databases of Islam Nusantara which will be integrated into the automation system in the library of the Faculty of Adab and Humanities (FAH) UIN Jakarta, will make FAH library as a library that has its own distinctions and advantages compared to other libraries.

scholarly journals PaperBLAST: Text-mining papers for information about homologs

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan N. Price ◽  
Adam P. Arkin
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Genome Sequencing ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Protein Sequences ◽  
Protein Coding ◽  
Link Protein ◽  
Protein Coding Genes ◽  
Link Type

AbstractLarge-scale genome sequencing has identified millions of protein-coding genes whose function is unknown. Many of these proteins are similar to characterized proteins from other organisms, but much of this information is missing from annotation databases and is hidden in the scientific literature. To make this information accessible, PaperBLAST uses EuropePMC to search the full text of scientific articles for references to genes. PaperBLAST also takes advantage of curated resources that link protein sequences to scientific articles (Swiss-Prot, GeneRIF, and EcoCyc). PaperBLAST’s database includes over 700,000 scientific articles that mention over 400,000 different proteins. Given a protein of interest, PaperBLAST quickly finds similar proteins that are discussed in the literature and presents snippets of text from relevant articles or from the curators. PaperBLAST is available at http://papers.genomics.lbl.gov/.

scholarly journals Open access resources in the academic libraries’ collection development (The experience of RAS SB State Public Scientific and Technological Library)

2019 ◽  
pp. 78-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Lakizo ◽  
Natalya Podkorytova ◽  
Larisa Bosina
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Open Access Resources ◽  
Strategic Element ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Systematic Collection ◽  
Technological Model

The authors discuss the study findings and the Library’s experience in integrating open access resources into the resource base of the information support offered to Siberian researchers and scholars. The dynamic technology of resources organization and use calls for continuous monitoring of the open access resources. Using the open access resources as an object of collection development improves the effectiveness of user services and preservation of socially significant content which impacts the libraries’ importance within the system of scientific communications. The library collection as a library’s strategic element is transforming with widening the formats, generic and specific limitations, and integrating traditional collections with the open access resources. This results in the sophisticating organizational and technological model of collection development. The efficiency of integrated open access library services demonstrate the users’ interest to and demand for them. The open access resources have been being increasingly included into the relevant collection development at the academic libraries. The systematic collection of open access resources can operate as a compensational technological system against other expensive resources. Integrating the open access resources into the collections of the State Public Scientific and Technological Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Branch proves to be naturally determined and impacts the prospects for collection development.

Indexing and compressing full-text databases for CD-ROM

1991 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 265-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian H. Witten ◽  
Timothy C. Bell ◽  
Craig G. Nevill
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Text Databases

The future of open access and library publishing

2014 ◽  
Vol 115 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 225-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faye Chadwell ◽  
Shan C. Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Dramatic Shift ◽  
Scholarly Communication System

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide a vision for how academic libraries can assume a more central role in a future where open access (OA) publishing has become the predominant model for disseminating scholarly research articles. Design/methodology/approach – The authors analyze existing trends related to OA policies and publishing, with an emphasis on the development of repositories managed by libraries to publish and disseminate articles. They speculate that these trends, coupled with emerging economic realities, will create an environment where libraries will assume a major role in the OA publishing environment. The authors provide some suggestions for how this major role might be funded. Findings – The trends and economic realities discussed will lead to new roles for academic librarians and will change the existing roles. Originality/value – This article provides insights for academic libraries and their institutions to consider a dramatic shift in the deployment of subscription dollars from a dysfunctional and largely closed scholarly communication system to one that provides open, unfettered access to research results.

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