UC Santa Barbara selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo solutions - April 5, 2017
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced that the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), has selected the Ex Libris Alma® library management service and Primo® discovery and delivery solution to manage and expose the library's increasingly diverse collections and to deliver a streamlined user experience.… Read More
ACCUCOMS to represent the American Association for Cancer Research in Latin America - April 5, 2017
ACCUCOMS has announced a new agreement with the American Association for Cancer Research in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America (except Brazil). The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) claims to be the oldest and largest scientific organisation in… Read More
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Elsevier sign IT professorship deal to support Berlin’s digital agenda - April 4, 2017
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and information analytics company Elsevier have signed an agreement to launch an information management professorship at the university as part of the Einstein Center Digital Future. This builds on Humboldt's existing collaboration with Elsevier in the HEADT Centre and supports Berlin's position as… Read More
Clarivate Analytics announces expansion of Emerging Sources Citation Index - April 4, 2017
Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, has announced the expansion of its Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) from 5,000 journal titles to over 7,500 as well as the release of a 10-year archive for this index later this year. The… Read More
Author sharing via scholarly collaboration networks is widespread, despite strong support for copyright, says new survey - April 4, 2017
Kudos, the service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, has announced headline results from a recent survey of authors' current sharing behaviours, carried out in partnership with 10 publishers including Cambridge University Press, The IET, De Gruyter and SAGE Publishing. The survey, which… Read More
Wiley names Guido F. Herrmann as Publishing Leader for Germany - April 4, 2017
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the appointment of Guido F. Herrmann as publishing leader for Germany. Guido joins Wiley from Georg Thieme Verlag KG, where he has worked for much of the past 20 years as Managing Director for Chemistry. In his… Read More