British Library partners with Google to digitise 250,000 books from collection - June 21, 2011
The British Library and Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, have announced a partnership to digitise 250,000 out-of-copyright books from the former's collections. Selected by the British Library and digitised by Google, both organisations will work in partnership over the coming… Read More
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and Nature Publishing Group renew publishing partnership - June 21, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) have announced a renewal of their publishing partnership. Under the agreement, NPG will continue to provide publishing services for the journal Neuropsychopharmacology (NPP). The ACNP and NPG have worked together continuously… Read More
Serials Solutions and Bridgeman Education partnership to enable discovery of images from the Summon service - June 21, 2011
Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries and a business unit of ProQuest LLC, has announced an agreement with Bridgeman Education to enable discovery of Bridgeman's vast visual arts collection from the Summon service. Bridgeman's digital art collection provides a central source… Read More
SAGE adds new feature to its SAGE Journals Online offerings - June 21, 2011
Academic Publisher SAGE is adding a new feature to its SAGE Journals Online offerings with SAGE scope, a tool that provides readers with interactive slide imagery as supplements to articles posted on SAGE Journals Online. The digital pathology scanning and hosting will be provided by Flagship… Read More
ICIS launches ICIS Dashboard service - June 21, 2011
Global chemicals information provider ICIS, part of the Reed Business Information group, has introduced a dashboard service. The ICIS dashboard is a new platform for delivering the company's paid-for information. It enables users to view their entire ICIS price and market intelligence in one place via… Read More
Number of institutions using Ex Libris’ bX article recommender service exceeds one thousand - June 21, 2011
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that following the selection of the bX article recommender service by the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI), the number of institutions using bX now exceeds 1000. bX was developed as a collaborative effort… Read More