Serials Solutions’ Summon service continues its mission of returning researchers to the library - January 23, 2012
Serials Solutions, a business unit of the US-based ProQuest LLC, commemorates the anniversary of introducing the Summon service at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter meeting in 2009. In three years, the service has grown its unified index from 200 million items to more than 800… Read More
EBSCO A-to-Z and LinkSource set to be integrated into EBSCO’s overall discovery solution - January 23, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) will benefit from the formal merging of EBSCO A-to-Z and LinkSource into EBSCO’s overall discovery solution. The two resources, which are relied upon by thousands of universities and other institutions around… Read More
SAGE announces new research study to investigate library value - January 23, 2012
Academic and professional publisher SAGE has commissioned a new research study to investigate library value. The project, 'Working together: evolving value for academic libraries,’ will investigate the value of academic libraries for teaching and research staff. The research is being undertaken by LISU, a national… Read More
OCLC forms strategic partnership with Sustainable Collection Services - January 23, 2012
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced a strategic partnership with Sustainable Collection Services, LLC, an organisation founded by the principals of R2 Consulting, that leverages WorldCat Data to help libraries intelligently manage their print monograph collections. Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) makes use of the… Read More
Journal Fibrogenesis & Tissue Repair names Ian Dixon as cardiovascular section editor - January 23, 2012
Journal Fibrogenesis & Tissue Repair, published by open access publisher BioMed Central, has announced the appointment of Prof. Ian Dixon as a new Section Editor for Cardiovascular Diseases. Dixon will join the four current Section Editors in helping to promote the journal and will oversee some… Read More
Gale outlines first archives for Nineteenth Century Collections Online - January 23, 2012
US-based Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, has announced the source libraries, collections and plans for the first four modules of Nineteenth Century Collections Online. The initiative is its global digitisation and publishing programme… Read More
