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Knowledge (XXG) together, and many admitted how heavily they use the encyclopedia in their reference work. Publishers we approached were at the least intrigued, and sometimes extremely interested, in the concept of the Knowledge (XXG) Library. TWL hopes to have a large presence at the next ALA Annual, held in San Francisco in 2015, and we encourage Books & Bytes readers to join in with ideas for how this should take shape, put together editathons and presentations, and hopefully attend themselves!
542:: Experienced editors repeatedly tell us how happy they are with receiving access to partners: that they 'need' it and go through 'withdrawal' without it. Whereas major WMF initiatives (Visual Editor, Flow, MediaViewer) sometimes frustrate experienced editors because that investment focuses on other audiences, such as new-editors and the public user bases, Knowledge (XXG) Library access to reliable sources directly supports super/top/power editors, helping them recognize how the Foundation's efforts support their own interests.
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476:: In the past 6 months alone, 864 unique users signed up for 1005 accounts. To individually purchase just these last round of accounts would have cost $ 714,010.00. This combines with the prior $ 547,000 from the first 6-month round of the grant for a total of 1,950 unique users with 2,924 separate research accounts. Individually purchasing these accounts would have cost $ 1,263,011.
500:: We've increased the diversity of our offerings with science and medical content (Royal Society, Cochrane, BMJ), global events (Keesings), genealogical records (FindMyPast), regional newspapers (British Newspaper Archive and Newspapers.com), classics of women writers and religious history (Past Masters), and multicultural historical archival collections (Adam Matthew).
143:- We will be opening up applications for Newspapers.com in the next week. Newspapers.com provide an American complement to the British Newspaper partnership that we opened last month, providing access to thousands of regional and local newspapers from the United States. We are excited to be able to strategically fill in coverage gaps within our library of materials.
200:- JSTOR is an excellent multidisciplinary database for accessing thousands of academic journals. We are very excited to see that partnership expand from 100 to 500 accounts. When we announced the expanded partnership in June, we saw hundreds of applicants. We are excited to be able to continue providing such high quality academic materials to our editors!
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174:- a subsidiary of SAGE Publications that focuses on publishing databases of primary sources and accompanying supporting material. For this partnership, we will have access to 10 of the databases included in their "White Label Titles" that allow access to a range of collections relevant to major topics in American and World History.
488:: Even though we have been English Knowledge (XXG)-centric in our management 428 editors from 64 other language projects (which they identify as their home or major project) have signed up for 623 accounts since 2011. In all, 22% of our editors have a major home on a non-English Knowledge (XXG) project.
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Knowledge (XXG) also has limitations. Inaccessible verifiable information usually means no article – it is meant to be an encyclopaedia, after all, so there needs to be some type of public and reliably documented conversation to show that it is of interest to the public. I couldn’t use the primary
209:- We were initially approved to renew 500 accounts and add 140 new ones. Credo is currently rethinking the collection editors will have access to, switching from 350+ reference works instead to a collection of topic pages which closely overlap with our highest importance, most trafficked articles.
512:: The TWL Team has grown significantly. We have three project-organizers, four technical coordinators, one outreach coordinator, a growing team of volunteers overseen by our head of volunteer coordination, and global satellite coordinators for Arabic, Chinese, German, and Spanish Knowledge (XXG).
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Because of his impact on my friends and our community, I suspected that Sir James Farmer may have been one of the more notable of the many self-made, often world-changing, engineering men who inhabited
Manchester, Salford and the surrounding areas in the 19th century. He needed a Knowledge (XXG)
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We noted an encouraging change of tone with regards to how the library world perceives
Knowledge (XXG). Mostly gone are the criticisms and disdain that characterized professional librarian's views toward the project in the past. Librarians and archivists from diverse areas of the library world
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We had in person talks with numerous publishers from ALA, including post-conference email follow-ups and phone calls. We talked with EBSCO, ProQuest, Elsevier, SAGE, Gale, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Intelex Past
Masters, Adam Matthew, E-Libro Spanish ebooks and others. We also dropped by
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Patrick (The Interior) travelled to Las Vegas, Nevada, for the 2014 ALA Annual. This conference of over 25,000 librarians, publishers, and information professionals presented TWL with multiple venues to make some progress on our initiatives. Some highlights from the weekend:
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An important focus of the trip was to take advantage of the large number of publishers and database providers manning the booths in the
Exhibitor's Hall. We identified some of the most desirable products for our editors, and targeted those companies and institutions. Our newly designed, color
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Ocaasi participated in a formal presentation at
Caesars Palace alongside members of OCLC, Rutgers University, and Montana State University on various aspects of the Knowledge (XXG)/library interface, with a focus on how academic libraries at higher learning institutions can create fruitful
183:- the Past Masters database is a collection of definitive scholarly editions of canonical author's work run by Intelex Corporation. For our access partnership, we strategically asked for two collections that can help broaden our Knowledge (XXG) Library holdings:
494:: The first global TWL satellite launched with Arabic Knowledge (XXG) Library, testing a new book purchases program co-organized by WMF Grants. Chinese Knowledge (XXG) Library also launched, and talks are well-underway with the Spanish and German communities.
530:: We presented at WikiConference USA, the American Library Association midwinter and annual conferences, Stanford's Open Everything speaker series, and Turnitin's Education and Plagiarism online conferences. We'll be presenting at Wikimania in London.
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The only information they really knew about Farmer was that he was once Mayor of
Salford. Although the company did produce a celebratory booklet for an anniversary, there really doesn’t seem to have been much written about the man who started it all.
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The man is now recognised on a major educational project that gets millions of viewers. I’ve planted that acorn and given him some of the recognition he deserves. Hopefully, given time, much more can be said about him and his company.
482:: We formed, renewed, or expanded partnerships with 9 publishers in the last 6 months; on that list are reference icons such as Oxford University Press and JSTOR (by far the most heavily demanded resource in our editor survey).
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705:, though they knew lots about the products the company had manufactured. These were sold worldwide and many are still being used and resold now. Some of the products were truly innovative, such as a fast printing press.
536:: We wrote about TWL or were written about in the Signpost, Wikimedia Foundation Blog, OCLC blog, Library Journal, Digital Shift, and the Wiki Education newsletter. Our Twitter account @WikiLibrary has 1,116 followers.
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is working on a project to guide archivists in contributing further research section entries about their archival collections and building a citation template for archive holdings. He also processed 500 JSTOR
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The months of June and July have been full of exciting developments with the
Knowledge (XXG) Library. We're really growing our partnerships, our team, and our global reach. Read on to find out more!
268:- Talks are progressing with Aschmidt and WMDE about launching a German Knowledge (XXG) library in the fall. Aschmidt is contacting 10 top German publishers including Genios, De Gruyter, and Juris.
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In the space of a couple of hours, most of which was spent being pleasantly distracted by other news articles surrounding the ones about Farmer, I’d gathered enough material to justify an article.
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editors who signed up to help process accounts as volunteer coordinators. In addition, she has been the main coordinator processing CREDO, BMJ, OUP, and several other signups. Thanks Nikki!!
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I discovered the mystery by speaking to several people who had been apprentices at the Sir James Farmer Norton & Co Ltd engineering firm at the Adelphi Ironworks in Salford.
152:- a sister project of British Newspapers Archive, FindMyPast is a genealogical database that provides access to documents marketed for a British genealogical focus. However, as
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518:: We have released working tech with the WikipeDPLA tool as a userscript and chrome browser extension. We have a working alpha version of the OCLC Full-text Reference tool.
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165:- One of the world's premier medical publications, BMJ publishes some of the foremost medical scholarship, major trials, and important review articles in the field.
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359:Final grant report highlights
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102:Keesing's World News Archives
917:Find Your Local Library tips
858:Get free access to research!
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932:Citation tools guide
887:Free Resource Guides
882:Discover open access
781:http://code4lib.org/
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927:How to find sources
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