Lauren Pressley elected ACRL vice-president/president-elect - April 17, 2017
Lauren Pressley, director of the University of Washington (UW) Tacoma Library and associate dean of UW Libraries, has been elected ACRL vice-president/president-elect. She will become president-elect following the 2017 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago and assume the presidency in July 2018 for a one-year term. … Read More
Reprints Desk introduces data-driven gadgets in latest version of SaaS research platform - April 17, 2017
Research Solutions, Inc., a pioneer in providing cloud-based solutions for scientific research, and its wholly-owned subsidiary Reprints Desk, have announced the launch of a new version of the company’s Article Galaxy research platform. New features include full mobile responsiveness, design enhancements, an improved order history page,… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 17, 2017
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rick Anderson (Four Ways of Rationalizing Infringement: or, How to Defend a Pirate); Mike Shatzkin (Authors need help with their digital presence that they still are not getting); Stacy Konkiel (Altmetrics, privacy and obscurity); Benedikt Fecher, Sascha Friesike, Isabella Peters… Read More
Elsevier offers free access to ClinicalKey supporting flood relief efforts in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia - April 13, 2017
STM publisher Elsevier is providing free access to its primary online clinical information and reference tool, ClinicalKey, to support healthcare professionals who are responding to the recent flooding and mudslides across Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Earlier this year the region was struck by intense rains that… Read More
Emerald Publishing partners with EBSCO to launch EDS Emerald Insight partner database - April 13, 2017
Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has announced a partnership with EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) to develop a new database, EDS Emerald Insight, which will enhance the discovery of Emerald content within EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). Mutual subscribers of Emerald content and EDS… Read More
American Medical Informatics Association announces partnership with Dryad Digital Repository - April 13, 2017
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has announced a new partnership with the Dryad Digital Repository. Dryad is a curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. To launch the partnership, AMIA is connecting the Dryad resource to the… Read More
