Jisc selects ProQuest to provide ebooks to UK Further Education colleges - March 23, 2015
ProQuest has been chosen by Jisc to continue to provide key ebooks to Further Education (FE) Institutions across the UK. Following its 2014 tender announcement for provision of ebooks for the UK Further Education community, Jisc elected to renew its existing contract… Read More
Penn State librarians approve OA policy for scholarly work - March 23, 2015
Penn State University Libraries faculty recently voted to embrace open access principles when publishing their scholarly articles. The Open Access Policy, passed into legislation at the February 11, 2015, Library Faculty Organization meeting, preserves the right of library faculty to publish where they wish, but encourages… Read More
Blackboard completes acquisition of Schoolwires - March 23, 2015
Education technology company Blackboard Inc. has announced that it has finalized its acquisition of Schoolwires, one of the leading educational website, hosting and content management providers to K-12 schools and districts. With the close of this acquisition, Blackboard continues to demonstrate its commitment to be the… Read More
United for Libraries now accepting applications for Baker & Taylor Awards - March 23, 2015
United for Libraries is accepting applications for the Baker & Taylor Awards, given to friends of the library groups and library foundations. Applications are due May 1, 2015. Given annually since 2000, the Baker & Taylor Awards have recognised more than 40 groups for outstanding… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 23, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Dr Tara Spires-Jones (When Scientific Fraud Isn't Fraud: How Both Researchers and Publishers Can Help Prevent Retractions); Joseph Esposito (More Consolidation in the Publishing Business); Monica Berger and Jill Cirasella (Beyond Beall’s List: We need a better understanding of predatory… Read More
AMI Software and Elsevier in deal to integrate Scopus Data into AMI Enterprise Intelligence - March 20, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier and market intelligence solutions provider AMI Software (AMI) have announced an agreement to provide AMI Software's core product AMI Enterprise Intelligence (AMI EI) with access to data from Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, with smart tools that track,… Read More
