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February 17, 2015 |
ProQuest Announces Digitization of Early European Books ProQuest released the first 2 million pages -- about 5,800 books -- from its digitization project of rare, historical works at the National Library of France.   |
Information Today
September 8, 2015 |
ProQuest Makes More Early European Books Available ProQuest launched Collection 7, the newest part of its Early European Books database, with 7,450 titles. |
Information Today
January 15, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Bell & Howell Announces ProQuest Historical Newspapers Project and The New York Times as the First Available Digital Backfile... |
Information Today
April 28, 2011 |
Text Creation Partnership Makes 18th-Century Texts Freely Available to the Public The University of Michigan Library announced the opening to the public of 2,231 searchable keyed-text editions of books from Eighteenth Century Collections Online, published by Gale, part of Cengage Learning. |
Information Today
July 28, 2011 |
Wellcome Library Partners With ProQuest to Digitize Early European Books The collection will be made available through ProQuest's new Early European Books database, a sister project to the Early English Books Online. |
Information Today
August 15, 2011 |
ProQuest Uncovers More Treasures from European Rare Book Libraries Early European Books, ProQuest's program to digitize the archives of landmark European libraries, has taken another leap forward with its latest release. |
Information Today
November 12, 2007 |
ProQuest-Gale Agreement to Enable Cross-Searching of Databases An agreement between ProQuest and Gale, will connect two digital research databases of early modern English books through cross-search technology. |
D-Lib
March 2006
Schibel & Rydberg-Cox |
Early Modern Culture in a Comprehensive Digital Library Digital libraries have the potential to transform fields such as early modern studies, where problems of physical access to sources and intellectual access to their contents have hampered our ability to contemplate major topics. |
Information Today
January 30, 2012 |
NAACP Archives Go Digital ProQuest History Vault's NAACP Papers 1 will provide the first electronic access to files from the group's Board of Directors and Annual Conferences, as well as text of major speeches and national staff records. |
Information Today
March 12, 2015 |
University of California Organizations Partner for Publishing Workflow Management System The University of California Press and the California Digital Library received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a content and workflow management system for publishing open access monographs. |
Searcher
April 2007
Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
Information Today
December 6, 2010 |
ProQuest Launches The Cecil Papers The 30,000 startlingly clear digital images virtually recreate documents gathered by William Cecil, Lord Burghley and his son Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury, two of Elizabeth I's closest advisers. |
Information Today
February 21, 2008 |
Microsoft Utilizes ABBYY FineReader Engine for Live Search Books Microsoft selects FineReader Engine software development kit (SDK) to convert text from books to searchable electronic data. |
Information Today
October 8, 2012 |
ProQuest Expands Support for Research in Arts and Humanities Continuing its mission of making hard-to-find journals accessible to the world's researchers, ProQuest released the 10 th collection in its Periodicals Archive Online. |
D-Lib
January 2002
Suzana Sukovic |
Beyond the scriptorium: The Role of the Library in Text Encoding Development of electronic textual resources means dealing with documents in new ways and on different levels, often involving work on a document's content through text encoding. This development challenges the library's assumed position in the research process... |
Information Today
December 27, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too. |
Information Today
January 14, 2008 |
ProQuest Announces Aggregated Full-Text Database for Libraries ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, has launched a new aggregated full-text database for libraries called ProQuest Central. |
Information Today
September 15, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Google Digitization Initiative to Expand Google News Archive The company has offered free digitization to any newspaper publisher willing to put all or any part of its archives onto the web for access through Google News Archive. |
Information Today
May 17, 2012 |
EBSCO Publishing Releases Two New Digital Archive Databases Gateway to America: The People, Places, and Organizations of 19th Century New York and Revolutionary War Era Orderly Books archive databases from the New-York Historical Society, are now available from EBSCO Publishing. |
D-Lib
October 2006 |
In Brief Documenting Pitt: Historical Publications and Images of the University of Pittsburgh... A Survey to Answer the Question: Why Are We Still Using Hardcopy?... In the News... etc. |
D-Lib
March 2006
Gregory Crane |
What Do You Do with a Million Books? The ability to extract from the stored record of humanity useful information in an actionable format for any given human being of any culture at any time and in any place will not emerge quickly, but the fundamental tools on which such a system would be built are moving forward. |
Information Today
June 3, 2014 |
ProQuest Gains Texas Newspaper Archive ProQuest added the digital archive of the daily Austin American-Statesman newspaper to its ProQuest Historical Newspapers collection. |
Searcher
September 2000
Amy M. Kautzman |
Virtual Academy: Full Text in the Humanities and Social Sciences A discussion about the commercialization of full-text databases and how well they server the library and research community. Includes a list of free full-text humanities databases on the web. |
Information Today
May 28, 2002
Barbara Quint |
OCLC, Olive Software Ally to Digitize Library Newspaper Archives OCLC Digital and Preservation Resources has signed an agreement with Olive Software to supply libraries with the tools to digitize historical newspaper archives. |
Information Today
November 10, 2011 |
ProQuest to Digitize NAACP Archives The collection, which comprises nearly 2 million pages of internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the country, charts NAACP's work and delivers a firsthand view into crucial issues. |
Search Engine Watch
December 14, 2004
Gary Price |
Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database. |
D-Lib
August 2009
Tanner et al. |
Measuring Mass Text Digitization Quality and Usefulness Lessons Learned from Assessing the OCR Accuracy of the British Library's 19th Century Online Newspaper Archive |
Information Today
March 2003 |
Product News and Reviews ITI Publishes New Book, Renames Journal... The Accidental Systems Librarian... ISTA... ProQuest Enhances Information Products... Historical Newspapers... etc. |
Information Today
September 2, 2010 |
IBM and the EU Collaborate on Digitization of Historic European Texts The project seeks to provide technology that will enable highly-accurate digitization of rare and culturally significant historical texts on a massive scale. |
Information Today
May 20, 2010 |
ProQuest's New Sanborn Maps Geo Edition ProQuest is using a proprietary geo-referencing technology to enhance discovery in its Sanborn Map collection, one of libraries' most consulted sources of historical maps. |
Information Today
March 18, 2013
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Takes Over Library Marketing for NewspaperARCHIVE.com: Turmoil and Tumult ProQuest plans to re-package the NewspaperARCHIVE.com content and re-price it. In the course of gathering information on the new arrangement, ProQuest changed product plans dramatically in just a few days. However, one thing was clear: Prices for libraries will really change. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Connecting Presidential Collections... The African American Theater History Project at the University of Minnesota Libraries... CrossRef Members add over a quarter million CrossMark records... |
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In Brief and In the News Harnessing the Cognitive Surplus of the Nation by Crowdsourcing... Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance receives implementation funding from the Mellon Foundation... Content from European National and Research Libraries Now Available through New Portal for Researchers... |
Information Today
August 8, 2011 |
ProQuest Acquires U.K.'s Expert Information ProQuest has acquired U.K.-based Expert Information, publishers of Index to Theses and Theses.com, premier sources of hundreds of thousands of citations and abstracts for British and Irish dissertations and master's theses. |
Information Today
September 18, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Who? What? How Much?: Google News Archive Premium Content Suppliers Three of the big five national newspapers have opened their archives to Google News Archive. |
Information Today
August 13, 2015 |
ProQuest-Google Scholar Indexing Is Now Complete The full text of ProQuest's scholarly content (journals and working papers, etc.) is now indexed in Google Scholar. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2000
Gregory Crane |
Designing Documents to Enhance the Performance of Digital Libraries: Time, Space, People and a Digital Library on London In a mature digital library (DL), documents should coexist with a Geographic Information System (GIS). |
Information Today
August 29, 2005
Barbara Quint |
CORRECTIONS: Google Print Not All I Said It Was Google does not supply publishers with e-books as part of the Google Print program, contrary to earlier reporting. Other errors in the Google Print reporting were also discovered. |
Information Today
August 15, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program. |
Information Today
February 4, 2002
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Acquires Micromedia, Ltd.; Adds More Titles; Upgrades Interface While the Web world of Net newbies swirls with dot-coms and dot-gones, one of the information industry's oldest and steadiest players continues to get the job done, adding new content and new sources to its already impressive aggregations... |
Information Today
October 10, 2011 |
ProQuest Microfiche Collection Linked to Digital Texts Advances in the ProQuest research environment have streamlined access to a major literary collection assembled by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
Information Today
November 6, 2008 |
ProQuest Introduces Redesigned Website Among the key features of new site are the ProQuest Support Center, a more powerful search engine, and an all-new product access feature that directs end users to library gateways. |
D-Lib
March 2006
Choudhury et al. |
Document Recognition for a Million Books Transcription represents only one component of document recognition. The presence of a large-scale book image corpus significantly raises the possibilities for document recognition capabilities, especially given the potential for statistical inferences or analyses. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2009
Rose Holley |
How Good Can It Get? Analysing and Improving OCR Accuracy in Large Scale Historic Newspaper Digitization Programs This article details the work undertaken by the National Library of Australia Newspaper Digitisation Program on identifying and testing solutions to improve OCR accuracy in large scale newspaper digitisation programs. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2009 |
In Brief Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award... High precision and recall: Focuss.Info as community-driven search engine... Shared Shelf: partnership plans to launch networked image management platform... etc. |
D-Lib
October 2003 |
In Brief Museums and the Online Archive of California Update and Report... King's College London Digital Consultancy Services... The European Library... Danish Libraries Offer Digital Sheet Music... etc. |
Information Today
May 10, 2012 |
ProQuest Joins 1940 U.S. Census Community Project ProQuest's participation in the project provides major financial support to the indexing effort, which enables all its partners to ingest content more affordably, providing timely delivery to their users. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2014
George V. Landon |
Report on the 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP'13) Technical areas covered in the workshop included information extraction and retrieval; reconstruction and degradation; text and image recognition and segmentation; and layout analysis and databases. |
Information Today
November 11, 2002 |
News Digest FluentMedia Adds Content from COMTEX... University of California Joins BioMed Central Program... ProQuest to Digitize Tribune Publishing Newspapers |
Information Today
May 2, 2008 |
Old Bailey Proceedings Boosts Records Online More rich detailed historical sources have been added to the Proceedings of the Old Bailey online. The digitized collection now covers the years 1674 to 1913 |
