Full text of entire EBL – Ebook Library catalogue now discoverable via Summon discovery service - May 7, 2014
ProQuest is boosting the visibility of ebooks in library collections by indexing the full text of the entire catalogue of EBL - Ebook Library in its Summon® discovery service. EBL's expansive catalogue of more than 400,000 ebooks is now even more discoverable alongside titles from ebrary,… Read More
SAGE’s Ed McBride elected United for Libraries president-elect - May 7, 2014
Ed McBride, executive director of library sales for SAGE, has been elected 2014-2015 United for Libraries vice president/president elect. McBride was formerly chief member engagement officer at LYRASIS, senior vice president of Cengage Gale's Customer Resource Center and director of support services for the San… Read More
Contributions for 6th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing called for - May 7, 2014
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, has announced that UNESCO will be hosting the 6th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, at their Paris Headquarters. The program planning for the event is well underway. As in previous years, the conference is directed towards the… Read More
Atypon integrates CrossRef’s CrossMark service in Literatum 14.1 - May 7, 2014
Atypon, a provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry, has announced that it will offer CrossRef's CrossMark® update and version identification service to publishers hosting their websites on Atypon's Literatum platform. Publishers on Literatum 14.1, the latest release of Atypon's flagship platform,… Read More
Elsevier to publish official journal of the Asian Agricultural and Biological Engineering Association - May 6, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that going forward it will publish the official journal of the Asian Agricultural and Biological Engineering Association - Engineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food (EAEF). The journal was launched in 2008 by the Asian Agricultural and Biological Engineering Association. To this… Read More
National Library of Medicine unveils MeSH on Demand, a new feature to identify relevant MeSH terms - May 6, 2014
The National Library of Medicine has announced the launch of MeSH on Demand, a new feature that uses the NLM Medical Text Indexer (MTI) to find MeSH terms. Currently, the MeSH Browser allows for searches of MeSH terms, text-word searches of the Annotation and Scope… Read More
