Bowker and LibraryThing launch BookPsychic – a personal recommender system for libraries - September 11, 2012
Bibliographic information provider Bowker and LibraryThing have launched BookPsychic, a new concept in readers advisory - a personal recommender system for libraries. BookPsychic is a service within LibraryThing for Libraries, distributed by Bowker, an affiliate of ProQuest. It went live at its first site earlier this… Read More
Knovel University Challenge launches with new weekly prizes for solving engineering problems - September 11, 2012
Knovel, the leading provider of a Web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools, started off the Knovel University Challenge with a new twist - additional prizes will be awarded on a weekly basis, giving students 12 more opportunities to win. The annual… Read More
NISO brings out themed issue of ISQ on linked data for libraries, archives and museums - September 11, 2012
The US' National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of a special themed issue of the Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) magazine on Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums. ISQ Guest Content Editor Corey Harper, Metadata Services Librarian, New York University, has sought to… Read More
Gale to preserve two more collections with Portico - September 11, 2012
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced the addition of two Gale Digital Collections – Nineteenth Century Collections Online and National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994 to Portico’s D-Collections Service. Portico has already preserved more than 1,380,000 objects and 83,000,000 files from 14 Gale Collections… Read More
Fort Hays State University goes live with Ex Libris’ Alma library management service - September 11, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the library of Fort Hays State University (FHSU) has gone live with the Ex Libris Alma library management service. FHSU has run Ex Libris solutions for many years, including the Voyager integrated library system, Primo… Read More
Edinburgh University Press and Boydell & Brewer set to join University Publishing Online - September 11, 2012
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press, UK, has announced the addition of over 450 scholarly titles to University Publishing Online, from two of the UK's prestigious academic presses - Edinburgh University Press and Boydell & Brewer. Launched in October 2011, by Cambridge University Press, University Publishing… Read More
