JUSP welcomes Springer adoption of COUNTER Release 4 to improve journal usage data - November 6, 2013
The Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP) has welcomed the adoption of Release 4 of the COUNTER standard by international publisher Springer Science+Business Media. The implementation ensures that the journal usage data Springer is providing to higher education libraries are now compliant with the standard, ensuring… Read More
Harvard University Press partners with De Gruyter to re-release 2800 titles from its publishing history - November 6, 2013
To celebrate its 100th anniversary, academic publisher Harvard University Press is working with De Gruyter to make available for sale worldwide virtually all the books published since its founding. The 2800 HUP titles will be offered in ten separate subject-area packages that reflect the entire… Read More
CCC adds 16 publishers to Get It Now academic service - November 6, 2013
Global licensing and content solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced the addition of 16 new publishers to its award-winning Get It Now academic service. The new publishers include Alcohol Research Documentation, Allerton Press, Allied Health, American College of Chest Physicians, American Psychiatric… Read More
Swets appoints Teri Hawksworth as Global Head of Sales - November 6, 2013
Information services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced the appointment of Teri Hawksworth as Global Head of Sales. Teri brings more than 15 years of experience in the information industry, joining Swets directly from a Managing Director role at Sweet & Maxwell, Thomson Reuter's legal publishing business.… Read More
Thomson Reuters and NuMedii launch new initiative to identify drugs for repurposing - November 5, 2013
The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a strategic initiative with NuMedii, a biotech company dedicated to revolutionising drug discovery, to identify new treatments for areas of unmet medical need. The partnership, which pairs NuMedii’s technology with the authoritative, hand-curated drug and disease… Read More
OCLC and ProQuest collaborate to automate e-book collection management - November 5, 2013
A new collaboration between OCLC and ProQuest automates the process to keep e-book holdings from ebrary and EBL – Ebook Library up to date in WorldCat and library catalogues and offers current links to library users for easy access to those titles.… Read More
