CrossRef and DataCite announce new initiative to accelerate adoption of DOIs for data publication and citation - November 11, 2014
CrossRef, a not-for-profit association of worldwide scholarly publishers, and DataCite, a global non-profit organisation dedicated to enabling people to find, share, use, and cite data, have announced a new initiative to accelerate the adoption of DOIs for data publication and citation. Data are essential building… Read More
Ergon Energy Corporation selects EBSCO Discovery Service - November 11, 2014
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that Ergon Energy Corporation in Australia has implemented EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to improve access to full-text resources and increase the exposure of both print and electronic materials to library users. Ergon Energy is a high-performance energy business that… Read More
Health Affairs integrate Altmetric data to help drive future strategy - November 11, 2014
Healthcare journal publisher Health Affairs and Altmetric LLP have announced the integration of Altmetric badges into the Health Affairs journal, hosted on the HighWire platform. This integration will allow authors and readers of the content to instantly see what people are saying… Read More
UNESCO partners with Nature Education and Roche to launch a free online science education resource - November 11, 2014
UNESCO has launched the UNESCO World Library of Science (WLoS), a newly created, free online science education resource for a global community of users. Developed through the joint efforts of UNESCO, Nature Education and Roche, the WLoS was created to give students… Read More
OWL Consortium signs long-term agreement with SirsiDynix - November 11, 2014
The Organization of Watauga Libraries (OWL), a 10-member consortium in northeast Tennessee, has signed a seven-year agreement with SirsiDynix. In addition to choosing SirsiDynix Symphony and SirsiDynix SaaS hosting service, OWL has chosen a number of SirsiDynix BLUEcloud products, including Enterprise discovery tool, eResource Central (eRC)… Read More
NÖ Landeskliniken-Holding gains access to Springer medical journals collection - November 10, 2014
The NÖ Landeskliniken-Holding has now purchased a license for an extensive collection of Springer medical journals. As a result, medical staff from 27 different hospitals in Lower Austria will soon have access to more than 500 English- and German-language journals from Springer and Adis. The license… Read More
