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COVID-19 Pandemic: Information Sources For Datasets and visualizations

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Covid-19 pandemic Data Visualizations Sources, Case statistics and graphs. COVID-19 Pandemic: Data Visualizations and Dashboards Sources. Continuing with the previous Article about The Information Resources For COVID-19 Pandemic . We present to you recognizes data creators and aggregators for contributing to the world data collections about Coronavirus by providing visualizations, dashboards, and access to Datasets related to COVID-19 and the novel Coronavirus causing it. We have gathered All data visualizations, dashboards, and datasets Resources related to COVID-19 Pandemic in the following links:   (A) Academic Data Science Alliance Addgene (B) Bing/Microsoft Boston Children's Hospital Boston Globe (C) California Life Sciences Association COVID-19 Research Database COVID Tracking Project CYTEL (D) D&B (E) Elsevier Endcoronavirus.org EOSC-Life (F) Figshare Financial Times (G) G

Global Libraries Standards: Cooperation Agreements

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Many organizations and library associations in a large number of countries have been interested in creating, forming and approving a set of unified standards for different types of libraries and information centers. as well as reviewing these standards continuously and periodically to ensure their suitability and validity to meet the changes and developments that occur in the field of libraries and rapid developments in Information technologies and modern means of communication on which libraries services depend today. Continuing with our previous article on S tandards for L ibraries in 2020 “Biblio Commons” Today is our date with “Cooperation Agreements” Cooperation Agreements : Contents of King Fahd National Library made available at ICESCO Digital Home Islamic World Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization “ICESCO” … 13/06/2020 The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) and King Fahd National Library at the Kingdom

Global Libraries Standards: Biblio Commons

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Standards … You may have heard this term one day But what are the standards and who defines them and who is based on documenting them ? Unified standards in the field of libraries, documentation and information are an indispensable tool for both library management and librarians. Without them, libraries become mere stores of information vessels only. We can imagine libraries and their bleak picture if each of them had its own classification, and its separate indexing rules. Standards are a necessary tool in the technical processes, evaluation in library services, and planning for the creation of new libraries and the improvement of existing one. The reasons that led to the use of unified standards in the field of libraries and information in essence are the same reasons that led to their entry into other fields and sectors. Library Standards in the World is your window to keep abreast of what is new in the field of libraries and information regionally and internati