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Five new films are now available in the RSC Live collection on Bloomsbury’s Drama Online: Henry VI: Part 1; Henry VI: Part 2; Henry VI: Part 3; The Comedy of Errors; and The Winter's Tale.
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released its new Video and Audio Metadata Recommended Practice (NISO RP-41-2023), which establishes metadata guidelines for video and audio assets.
FinancialFit is designed by experts in the financial industry and offers short, easy-to-understand lessons, videos and interactive tools to empower people to understand the fundamentals of personal finance and make sound financial decisions in order to achieve financial goals.
International cooperation between ISSN International Centre and ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics is expanding in the context of digital preservation.
BMJ announces the launch of a new research impact tool, BMJ Impact Analytics, developed in collaboration with pioneering start-up Overton. BMJ Impact Analytics is the only impact tool focused on health and social care.
Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) launched Optica Open today, a new preprint server dedicated to advancing optics and photonics around the globe. Preprints are publicly available, preliminary scholarly articles posted ahead of formal peer review and publication in a journal. Authors can conveniently transmit their Optica Open preprint submissions to an Optica Publishing Group journal or their journal submissions to the preprint server, a first for the optics and photonics community.
The new collections feature exclusive filmed productions of 80 operas by over 40 composers, from Berlioz to Wagner, with performances from world class opera houses including The Royal Opera House, Teatro Real, La Fenice, Glyndebourne, and more.
This is a jointly developed final document by OASPA and UNESCO. The Guidelines form part of the UNESCO Open Science Toolkit.
De Gruyter’s newly founded not-for-profit arm, eBound, has announced it will fund the digitization of George Anton Kiraz’ comprehensive private book and manuscript collection on Syriac and Eastern Christianity