OCLC signs agreements with publishers in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Business - April 16, 2015
OCLC, a non-profit, membership, computer library service and research organisation, has signed agreements with leading publishers in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Business to add metadata for books, e-books, journals, audiovisual materials and databases that will make their content discoverable through WorldCat Discovery Services. OCLC… Read More
University of Edinburgh to implement Ex Libris Alma and Primo - April 16, 2015
Library automation services provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the University of Edinburgh has selected the next-generation Alma® unified resource management solution and the Primo® discovery and delivery solution. Primo will enable the Library to achieve its goal of providing rapid and seamless discovery,… Read More
The Frankfurt Book Fair and Publishing Perspectives co-organise The Markets: Global Publishing Summit - April 15, 2015
The Frankfurt Book Fair and Publishing Perspectives will launch a new event – The Markets: Global Publishing Summit – to better help publishers around the world understand and create partnerships in seven important current and future markets this fall. Now that… Read More
Springer and Regenerative Engineering Society partner to launch new journal, Regenerative Engineering and Translational Medicine - April 15, 2015
STM publisher Springer has launched Regenerative Engineering and Translational Medicine in partnership with the newly formed Regenerative Engineering Society. The new international journal will cover the convergence of multiple fields, including tissue generation, advanced materials science, stem cell research, the physical sciences and developmental biology, and… Read More
Four Elsevier products named SIIA Content CODiE Awards finalists - April 15, 2015
Four products from STM publisher Elsevier have been named finalists for the 2015 SIIA CODiE Awards in multiple categories. Finalists represent the information industry's best products, technologies, and services created by or for media, publishers, and information services providers. The Software & Information Industry Association… Read More
CABI partners with PlumX to measure impact of agricultural and environmental research - April 15, 2015
Scientists at CABI will be able to gauge the impact of their agricultural and environmental research in several unique ways by partnering with PlumX from Plum™ Analytics, an EBSCO company. As part of a six-month pilot program, CABI is using PlumX metrics… Read More