ProQuest in deal to distribute SIAM publications to libraries worldwide - August 26, 2011
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has signed an agreement with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to distribute its publications to libraries worldwide. The society's 15 peer-reviewed journals including SIAM Review, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems… Read More
Taylor & Francis Group acquires three history journals from Elsevier - August 26, 2011
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group, a division of Informa UK Ltd, and STM publisher Elsevier have announced their decision to transfer three history journals - Journal of Medieval History, History of European Ideas and The History of the Family: An International Quarterly - to Taylor… Read More
ALA Office for Research and Statistics study shows increased need for academic libraries - August 26, 2011
The American Library Association (ALA) Office for Research and Statistics has released a new study, according to which the need for libraries on college and university campuses has increased. In 'Trends in Academic Libraries, 1998 to 2008,' researcher Denise M. Davis analyses data from the… Read More
Pearson unveils technology to measure complexity of text - August 25, 2011
Education services provider Pearson, US, has announced the creation of the Pearson Reading Maturity Metric, projected as an accurate measure of the reading difficulty of texts. Developed by scientists at Pearson's Knowledge Technologies group, the new computer-based technology measures how close an individual student's reading abilities… Read More
Taylor & Francis adds 150 journals to aRDi programme - August 25, 2011
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has announced an expansion of the Access to Research for Development and Innovation (aRDi) programme to now include a total of around 200 online scientific and technical journals. Academic publisher Taylor & Francis, a founding partner… Read More
OCLC to offer Atlas Systems’ electronic document delivery software - August 25, 2011
Library solutions provider Atlas Systems, US, has announced that OCLC will extend its suite of resource sharing services with Odyssey 3.0, the new version of Atlas' free stand-alone electronic delivery software. Odyssey is said to complement the OCLC ILLiad Resource Sharing Management Software that was developed… Read More
