HighWire Press receives significant equity investment from Accel-KKR to support strategic growth - June 2, 2014
HighWire Press, a technology service provider to influential scholarly publishers and an auxiliary unit of Stanford University Libraries, has received a significant equity investment to support its strategic growth from Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity firm. The new partnership enables HighWire to further its investment in… Read More
Boopsie and NoveList partnership to provide in-app catalogue access to NoveList Select - June 2, 2014
Boopsie, Inc., a mobile app platform for libraries, has partnered with NoveList®, an EBSCO Information Services offering, to provide in-app catalogue access to NoveList Select™. NoveList Select applies NoveList’s expert-generated book recommendations to a library’s catalogue. Patrons search for a title in… Read More
Research and publishing network, ScienceOpen launches - June 2, 2014
Research and publishing network, ScienceOpen, which published its first Open Access articles in April, is now officially launching to coincide with the SSP 36th Annual Meeting (#SSPBOSTON). This next generation Open Access (OA) platform builds on the premise that scholarly publishing is not an end… Read More
ELT division of Cambridge University Press partners with Gutenberg Technology to deliver unique online reading experience - June 2, 2014
The English Language Teaching (ELT) division of Cambridge University Press has engaged Gutenberg Technology to provide students and adult learners around the world access to their award-winning products and services on a range of mobile devices and platforms. The Cambridge Bookshelf, designed and built by… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - June 2, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Regret Salad with Aspiration Dressing — A Scholarly Publisher Delves Into the New York Times’ Innovation Report); Kat Smith and Richard Freeman (A New Politics of Knowledge? Exploring the contested boundaries between science, knowledge and policy); Alice Meadows… Read More
Harvard Library on track to implement Primo - June 2, 2014
The Harvard Library is on track to implement Primo - a new scholarly search tool - this summer. The Library, following an extensive review of discovery systems, announced its decision to adopt the Primo discovery and delivery system from Ex Libris in April 2014. Discovery systems… Read More
