mar14_a.indd C&RL News March 2014 114 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l dDavid Free AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library offers archives research travel award The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library is offering a research travel award to educators, graduate students, and independent researchers who would ben- efit from access to the rich and unique his- torical and cultural holdings in the Archives Research Center. Available for research are rare books and more than 105 collections of manuscripts, photographs, and archival records documenting the African American and African diaspora experience in a broad range of subjects, including civil rights, race relations, education, literature, visual and performing arts, religion, politics, and social work. The award will be made based on estimat- ed travel expenses not to exceed $1,500. The application deadline is April 14, 2014. The awardee research period is for June 1 through December 15, 2014. Eligibility requirements and a link to the application are available at www.auctr.edu/files/documents/2014 -Research-Travel-Award-Application.pdf. Visit www.auctr.edu/archives to learn more about the Archives Research Center and browse the collections available for research. Project Euclid launches site redesign Project Euclid recently announced the launch of a fully redesigned platform. A joint partnership of Cornell University Li- brary and Duke University Press, Project Euclid is an online platform that hosts high- quality mathematics and statistics content. Its new website is designed to meet the re- search needs of mathematicians and statisti- cians, and combines functionality with an easy-to-use interface. New features include improved searching, citation exports, pub- lisher landing pages, mobile optimization, print-on-demand purchasing, customized e-mail alerts, and access indicators for all content. The new site implements a new faceted search tool that allows users to navigate more than 1.7 million pages of scholarship more ef- ficiently. By applying filters to search results, users can progressively refine their searches, focusing on the content most related to their subject areas. Additionally, users can sign up to receive e-mail alerts when new scholarship is published in their areas of interest. View the new platform at projecteuclid.org. OU and OSU collaborate on open- access repository To make the published results of research easily available to the public, the University of Oklahoma (OU) Libraries and Oklahoma State University (OSU) Libraries have estab- lished SHAREOK, an openly available web- site that will house the intellectual output of both universities. Content will ultimately include digital dissertations, faculty publi- cations and research, digital special collec- tions, open access publications, open edu- cational resources, and much more. SHAREOK is part of a long-term strat- egy to support research and scholarship in Oklahoma. Faculty, students, staff, and other individuals or entities associated with OU or OSU will be able to benefit from SHAREOK’s resources and can contribute content. The site is freely available at https://shareok.org. University of Utah expands digital newspaper archive With more than 174,000 visits per year by genealogists, scholars, and others seeking historical information of some nature, Utah Digital Newspapers (UDN) is an online ar- chive in high demand. Founded in 2002 by the J. Willard Marriott Library at the Univer- sity of Utah, the digital archive contains his- toric newspapers from across the state and has recently experienced a growth spurt with the addition of 130,000 pages from 11 Utah newspapers, including content from March 2014 115 C&RL News ACRL seeks feedback on draft Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education The ACRL Information Literacy Com- petency Standards for Higher Educa- tion Task Force seeks feedback on the initial draft of the association’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The Information Literacy Compe- tency Standards for Higher Education, adopted by ACRL in 2000, have be- come an essential document related to the emergence of information literacy as a recognized learning outcome at many institutions of higher education. These, like all ACRL standards, are reviewed cyclically. In June 2012, the ACRL Board of Directors a p p r o ve d a u n a n i m o u s r e c o m m e n - d a t i o n t h a t they be a sig- nificantly revised. A task force charged with creating the Framework has been working since March 2013. Since the publication of the first standards, the information environ- ment has evolved into a fragmented, complex information ecosystem that demands greater sense-making and metacognition from the student. To better equip students to navi- gate, understand, and contribute in this dynamic information ecosystem, the task force determined that a move from the traditional standards model to a Framework was needed to allow for more creative and integrated in- formation literacy learning outcomes. The new Framework seeks to address the interconnected nature of the abili- ties, practices, and dispositions of the student, moving away from the hierar- chical and formulaic approach of the current standards. The first part of the initial draft of the new Framework, available now on the task force website, includes an introduction, three threshold con- cepts, a glossary, and a bibliography. The second part of the initial draft, slated for release in April 2014, will include additional threshold concepts and sample scenarios. An online forum soliciting additional input on the draft will be held in April 2014. A s e c - ond, revised draft of the Fra m ewo rk , i n c o r p o r a t - ing comments received on the initial draft, will be released in June 2014, followed by hearings at the 2014 ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas and online. The initial draft Framework, along with additional information and ques- tions to guide the review and feedback process, is now available on the task force website at http://acrl.ala.org /ilstandards/?pa ge_id=133. Please provide feedback on the two parts of the draft by 5 p.m. Central on Tuesday, April 15, 2014, via the form at https:// www.surveymonkey.com/s/JCVY3GW. Contact ACRL Senior Strategist for Special Initiatives Kara Malenfant at kmalenfant@ala.org with questions. C&RL News March 2014 116 Spring 2014 ACRL e-Learning ACRL is offering a wide variety of online learning opportunities in spring 2014 to meet the demands of your schedule and budget. ACRL online courses provide asynchro- nous, multi-week content with weekly readings and assignments. Online courses scheduled for spring 2014 include What You Need to Know about Writing Data Management Plans (April 7–25, 2014) and Custom- er Service in the Digital Age (June 2–20, 2014). ACRL webcasts address hot topics in academic librarianship. Webcasts last 90 min- utes and take place in an interactive online classroom. Group discounts are available for all ACRL e-Learning webcasts. Spring 2014 webcasts include Precision Googling: Techniques to Extract Exactly What You Want from the Largest Search Engine (March 11, 2014), The Publishing Rollercoaster: Writers Sound Off (March 25, 2014), Creating and Sustaining a Library Residency Program: Voices from the ACRL Residency Interest Group (April 15, 2014), You’re Doing it Wrong: Ten Rules to Break to Create Awesome Tutori- als (April 22, 2014), and Dress your Data for Suc- cess: Data Visualization Strategies for Librar y Assessment (April 29, 2014). Complete details and registration infor- mation for all spring 2014 e-Learning oppor- tunities are available on the ACRL website at www.ala.org/acrl/onlinelearning/. Contact Margot Conahan at mconahan@ ala.org or (312) 280-2522 for more information. four rural newspapers new to the digital ar- chive. Various issues of the Brigham City Bu- gler (1891–1895), the Gunnison Valley News (1909–1935), the Milford/Beaver County News (1916–1946), and the Mt. Pleasant Pyramid (1912–1950) are now accessible, along with a total of 150,000 plus issues contained in 1.5 million pages of historic Utah newspapers. This recent digitization push also in- creased the digital holdings of The Salt Lake Tribune. The years spanning 1914 through 1919 have been added, bringing The Salt Lake Tribune’s digitized pages total to 175,000 covering the years 1871 to 1919. The archive is available at http://digitalnews- papers.org/. Altmetric data now available on SpringerLink Springer announced that it has added alt- metrics information to every article available on SpringerLink, the publishing company’s online platform. The data is provided by Alt- metric, a London-based start-up that tracks and analyzes the online activity around scholarly literature. The addition of this fea- ture makes the alternative metrics that mea- sure the impact of research more readily available to users by adding it to the abstract page for every article. This information is also visible to anyone visiting SpringerLink, not just those with access to full-text articles. Rather than using only the traditional mea- sures of an article’s citations, altmetrics allow scientists to see where their work is being discussed and shared in the social web. The number of shares for any given article will now be listed alongside citations on articles’ abstract pages on SpringerLink. While the “citations” link will redirect users to springer. com, the “shares” link will send users to Alt- metric, where they can explore discussions around any given piece of research. March 2014 117 C&RL News Tech Bits . . . Brought to you by the ACRL ULS Technol- ogy in University Libraries Committee Jing is an easy-to-use, free desktop screencast- ing/screencapture tool. Download the program and an unobtrusive “sun” will appear at the top of your screen. Click on it at any time to capture images or videos on the fly. You can add text, highlighting, arrows, and more to your images to emphasize important links and features. These images can be easily included in online research guides or training materials. The screencasting option enables you to record up to five minutes of video—great for virtual reference transactions or database tutorials. When finished, Jing has many ways to share your creations. Upload easily to Screencast.com (2GB of free storage included with your Jing account) or create custom Facebook, Twitter, or Flickr buttons for sharing to social media. — Sara O’Donnell University of Northern Colorado . . . Jing www.techsmith.com/jing.html Serials Solutions now called ProQuest Products and services from Pro- Quest’s Seattle-based technologies business unit will now carry the Pro- Quest brand as the name Serials So- lutions is retired. The change takes place immediately and customers will see the ProQuest name on busi- ness cards, e-mail addresses, prod- uct information, and in connection with products such as the Summon discovery service and the new Intota library management service. Serials Solutions was founded by librarians in 1999 and joined ProQuest in 2004. Its original mission of manag- ing e-serials content has expanded to solve all types of chronic problems and challenges faced by librarians as collections shifted to mostly electronic content. EBSCO launches Communication Source EBSCO recently launched Communi- cation Source, a resource developed from a merger of EBSCO databases Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communication Abstracts (formerly published by SAGE). Communica- tion Source includes coverage of more than 1,000 core titles and features full text for more than 600 active periodicals, including 150 full-text titles not found in other EBSCO academic databases. The database offers ab- stracts and indexing as well as full-text con- tent from publications worldwide pertaining to communication, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, me- dia studies, and related fields. Back file cov- erage includes top titles in communication reaching deep into the 20th century. More information is available at www.ebscohost. com/academic/communication-source. Gale extends Portico partnership Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a publisher of research and reference resources for librar- ies, schools, and businesses, and Portico, a not- for-profit digital preservation service, recently announced an extension of their relationship to preserve the majority of Gale’s remaining digital archives. Among those to be preserved and added to Portico’s D-Collection Service are The Times Digital Archive, Slavery & Anti-Slav- ery (Parts I-IV), State Papers Online (Parts I-IV), and the entire back file of Archives Unbound, which accounts for more than 150 topically fo- cused archives. The organizations have previously worked together to preserve a number of Gale’s earlier digital collections, and, with this extension to their agreement, Portico will effectively be preserving all remaining Gale-produced collections. For more information on Gale and its various digital collections, visit www. gale.cengage.com. For more information on Portico, visit www.portico.org.