ARL joins 252 groups, 10 business leaders in a call to action for American ‘Innovation Imperative’ - June 24, 2015
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has joined scores of other organizations as well as leaders of American business, industry, higher education, science, and engineering in an urgent call to action for stronger federal policies and investment to drive domestic research and development. The move follows… Read More
Elsevier to launch a professional development program for librarians and information resource managers at ALA Annual Conference - June 24, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of Library Learning Trends, a professional development program for librarians and information resource managers. The program kicks off with four events at the American Library Association (ALA) 2015 Annual Conference in San Francisco, June 25-30. Library Learning Trends… Read More
National consortium for ORCID set to improve UK research visibility and collaboration - June 24, 2015
ORCID, a researcher identifier solution which enables a wide range of improvements to the scholarly communications ecosystem, will now be offered to UK higher education institutions through a national consortium arrangement operated by Jisc. The agreement, negotiated by Jisc Collections, will enable universities to benefit… Read More
DynaMed Plus now features Micromedex Medication Management and Lab Recommendation resources from Truven Health Analytics - June 24, 2015
Clinical decision support solutions provider EBSCO Health and Truven Health Analytics have announced that Micromedex Medication Management and Lab Recommendation resources are now featured in DynaMed Plus, a cross-platform evidence-based clinical decision support tool for physicians and other medical professionals introduced earlier… Read More
50,000 researchers sign up to use Kudos - June 24, 2015
Kudos, which helps maximize the reach and impact of research publications, has announced that 50,000 researchers have now signed up to use its service. They represent a broad range of subject areas; an early bias towards STEM subjects (reflecting the strengths of Kudos' original publisher partners)… Read More
Primo Central Index to cover Wanfang Data Content in Chinese - June 24, 2015
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris® Group has announced that the metadata of e-journals, dissertations, conference papers, and gazetteers hosted by Wanfang Data will be indexed in the Ex Libris Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic resources. As a result, this extensive content from Wanfang Data… Read More
