Leading Italian universities now gain access to De Gruyter content - June 2, 2017
Academic publisher De Gruyter has signed a 3-year agreement with the CRUI/CARE consortium of Italian academic libraries that includes eJournal and eBook packages as well as Databases. Currently, some of the most prestigious Italian universities have joined the consortium for De Gruyter collections, including Università… Read More
Emerald titles increase strong CiteScore position - June 2, 2017
The first full release of the CiteScore metric for 2016 from Scopus has seen Emerald increase the quality measures for over 57% of its journals, on a like-for-like basis compared to 2015's figures. Following on from CiteScore's launch in December 2016, Emerald remains the publisher with… Read More
Ex Libris joins Open Preservation Foundation - June 2, 2017
The Open Preservation Foundation has announced Ex Libris as its newest charter member. Ex Libris' Rosetta is an end-to-end digital asset management and preservation solution for libraries, archives, museums and other institutions, enabling institutions to safely and securely collect, manage, publish, deliver,… Read More
OCLC in deal with leading publishers worldwide - June 2, 2017
Global library cooperative OCLC has signed agreements with distinguished publishers from around the world to add metadata for high quality books, e-books, journals, databases and other materials that will make their content discoverable through WorldCat Discovery. OCLC has agreements in place with 315 publishers and… Read More
Springer Nature and the ISSN International Centre initiate centralisation of ISSN assignment - June 1, 2017
Springer Nature and the ISSN International Centre have been initiating a centralised process for the assignment of International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN) to serial publications of Springer Nature. The new process for requesting ISSN standardises and automates the way unique identifiers are… Read More
New SPARC Europe report provides analysis of Open Data and Open Science policies in Europe - June 1, 2017
Providing an analysis of Open Data and Open Science policies across Europe, SPARC Europe has released a new report. Produced in collaboration with the Digital Curation Center (DCC), it follows on the heels of a previous work that listed national research data policies. This latest… Read More