Credo named to EContent Top 100 Companies in the Digital Content Industry - December 27, 2013
Information skills solutions provider Credo has been named by EContent to its Top 100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry in the Content Commerce and Digital Content Provider categories. The EContent 100 List is selected each year by a team of judges,… Read More
Two of the oldest German journals in Zoology opt for ‘platinum’ open access - December 23, 2013
Two of the oldest German journals in Zoology – Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift and Zoosystematics and Evolution – will join the journal publishing platform of Pensoft Publishers and adopt "platinum" open access beginning January 1, 2014. For Pensoft, "platinum" open access means not just that the articles… Read More
Proposal submission deadline approaching for Library Assessment Conference 2014 - December 23, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Washington Libraries, and the conference planning committee are accepting proposals through January 17, 2014, for the Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, to be held in Seattle, Washington, August 4–6, 2014. The goal of… Read More
Arizona University Library Consortium joins Alexander Street’s pilot program for evidence-based acquisition of video resources - December 23, 2013
The Arizona University Library Consortium has become the first library group in North America to join Alexander Street's pilot program for evidence-based acquisition (EBA) of video resources. The Arizona University Library Consortium comprises the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Northern Arizona State University.… Read More
OCLC partners with Novelry to connect readers with libraries - December 23, 2013
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has added the newly launched book search engine Novelry to its growing list of WorldCat.org traffic partners in the US. Based in Omaha, NE, Novelry provides a framework to find connections based on what users care… Read More
American College of Cardiology Research Network uses big data to connect practices with trials - December 23, 2013
The American College of Cardiology has established the PINNACLE Registry Research Alliance to connect cardiovascular care teams with information about clinical trials and accelerate the systematic access of patients to potentially groundbreaking therapies. Clinical trials are the gold standard for studying the effectiveness of new… Read More
