Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine moves library management to the cloud with OCLC - September 26, 2014
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), an international education and research centre dedicated to the study of infectious diseases, has selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services as its library management system. WorldShare Management Services (WMS) provide cloud-based library management and discovery… Read More
The Network Inter Library Document Exchange now available via Ex Libris SFX - September 26, 2014
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that users of the Network Inter Library Document Exchange (NILDE) can now seamlessly access documents via the Ex Libris SFX OpenURL link resolver. Used by over 800 Italian, Spanish, and Greek libraries, NILDE is a document… Read More
Thomson Reuters predicts Nobel Laureates for 2014 - September 25, 2014
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced its 2014 'Nobel-class' Citation Laureates. Having accurately forecast 35 Nobel Prize winners since its inception in 2002, the annual Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates study mines scientific research citations to identify the most influential researchers in… Read More
Swets Information Services B.V. declared bankrupt - September 25, 2014
Following the suspension of payment for Swets & Zeitlinger Group B.V., granted by the court in Amsterdam on September 19, 2014, the Swets Management team, together with J.L.M. Groenewegen (CMS), the appointed administrator, have been working to investigate alternatives for the business. Unfortunately, concrete alternatives to… Read More
Elsevier expands OA portfolio with two new journals – Preventive Medicine Reports and Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research - September 25, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new peer reviewed open access journal, Preventive Medicine Reports (PMR). Preventive Medicine Reports will serve as the sister journal to Preventive Medicine, a leading medical journal founded by Dr. Ernst Wynder in 1972. Continuing the legacy… Read More
University of Canterbury selects Intota Assessment from ProQuest to simplify library collection management - September 25, 2014
The University of Canterbury recently selected Intota™ Assessment from ProQuest as the best solution to address challenges in evaluating usage of their libraries' collections and making collection management decisions based on evidence. Detailed overlap analysis helps a library… Read More
