Association of Research Libraries seeks proposals for SPEC Survey Topics 2016 - May 22, 2015
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is seeking proposals for 2016 SPEC survey topics. For 40 years ARL has gathered and disseminated data through the SPEC survey program to assist libraries in the continuous improvement of their management systems. Each year, ARL works with librarians in… Read More
Choice names Cynthia Crooker science and technology editor - May 22, 2015
Cynthia Crooker has been named science and technology editor for Choice, effective immediately. The premier source of reviews of academic books and digital resources of interest to scholars and students in higher education, Choice is a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries… Read More
London’s Natural History Museum is live with Ex Libris Alma and Primo - May 22, 2015
Library automation services provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the Alma resource management solution and the Primo discovery and delivery solution are live at the Natural History Museum in London. Alma allows museum staff to manage all of the Library's scholarly resources and media types… Read More
The University of Chicago Press: Journals Hosted on new Atypon platform in 2016 - May 22, 2015
Atypon, a provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry and University of Chicago Press, has launched a new online home for the University of Chicago Press's portfolio of nearly 70 journals, using technology developed by Atypon. Chicago's new platform, due for release by… Read More
Holiday Notice - May 22, 2015
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on May 25, 2015 on account of Memorial Day. We will resume our newsletter service on Tuesday, May 26, 2015. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the May 22nd issue. Read More
Text and data mining in the EU: Legal certainty already exists - May 21, 2015
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has noted the desire expressed in the 'Communication on Single Digital Market Strategy for Europe' issued on 6 May 2015 for legal certainty around the use of copyright-protected materials, including across borders, for text mining. STM… Read More
