The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library, a Cornell-run program that has helped researchers all over the world gain access to agricultural journals, will expand to 50 more countries this year.
A Save America’s Treasures grant will provide for the restoration and digitization of the law library’s collection of trial pamphlets, which date back to the seventeenth century.
Cornell officials are looking into obtaining an institutional subscription to The New York Times website after The Times implemented a paywall on March 28.
Several universities have expressed support for Cornell University Library’s decision, announced March 21, to no longer do business with publishers who insist on keeping the terms of their contracts private.
Although a U.S. Court of Appeals judge ruled against Google's book digitization project, Cornell's partnership with Google in its own library initiatives will not be affected.
Students from last fall’s software engineering class Computer Science 5150 will release a new application today that will enable iPhone users to access the University library’s online website.
The program’s creators boasted about the application’s capabilities.
Cornell Libraries announced last Thursday that they will seek voluntary financial support to help pay for their repository site, arXiv.org. The library is responsible for the site’s operation, maintenance and funding.