Greater Western Library Alliance announces preferred purchasing agreement with Reprints Desk, Inc. - February 25, 2015
The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) has announced a preferred purchasing agreement with Reprints Desk, Inc., a Research Solutions company. GWLA members will receive preferred purchasing terms for single-article document delivery services. The agreement, which supplements interlibrary loan (ILL) and provides same-day… Read More
CNI project briefing proposals for Spring 2015 meeting due February 27 - February 25, 2015
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is accepting proposals for project briefings to be presented at the CNI Spring 2015 Membership Meeting in Seattle, Washington, April 13–14. Proposal submission is open to anyone, including non-members of CNI. A project briefing is a 45-minute or one-hour… Read More
Springer partners with CCC to deliver XML content for corporate biomedical text mining - February 24, 2015
STM publisher Springer has partnered with Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) on a new solution enabling corporate life sciences researchers to perform text and data mining (TDM) quickly and easily across publishers. As one of the first publishers to sign onto the service,… Read More
NASIG and SSP announce joint meeting on information policies - February 24, 2015
NASIG and the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) have announced a joint full-day program, 'Evolving Information Policies & Their Implications: A Conversation for Librarians & Publishers.' The program is scheduled for May 27, 2015, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, Virginia (DC)… Read More
The University of Pécs selects EBSCO Discovery Service - February 24, 2015
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that the University Library of Pécs in Hungary has chosen EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) as its library discovery tool to help promote usage of key library resources. The EDS unified index, ability to search all library records and highly relevant… Read More
New NISO white paper explores the future of library resource discovery - February 24, 2015
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a white paper, The Future of Library Resource Discovery, written by independent consultant, speaker, and author Marshall Breeding. The white paper was commissioned by NISO's Discovery to Delivery (D2D) Topic Committee as part of its ongoing examination of… Read More
