Meet content and technology pioneers at ConTech 2018 - November 2, 2018
ConTech 2018 features pioneering organisations who have embraced new intelligent technologies to change the creation, management and use of scholarly and professional information content. Third Iron, LLC, a leading information technology company developing innovative services that benefit libraries and their users, and InfoDesk, which provides connectors… Read More
NISO releases draft KBART Automation Recommended Practice for public comment - November 2, 2018
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) seeks comments on a new draft Recommended Practice, KBART Automation: Automated Retrieval of Customer Electronic Holdings. KBART Automation is an enhancement to KBART, Knowledge Bases and Related Tools, the NISO initiative which provides a format for content providers to use… Read More
Edanz Group and ORCID integrate authoring platforms to streamline manuscript preparation process - November 2, 2018
Edanz Group has announced a new collaboration with ORCID which will make it possible for authors to connect their ORCID iD to the company's Author Path, Author Academy, and Author Services websites. Now, users of the Chinese- and English-language versions of… Read More
Several UC-licensed Gale databases now live on Artemis platform - November 2, 2018
Several of the UC-licensed Gale databases are now live on the Artemis platform and are still available on the existing Gale platform as well. At present, the PIDs still point to the existing Gale platform. The PIDs will be updated when the switch to the new… Read More
Cabells surpasses 10,000 journals indexed on Journal Blacklist - November 2, 2018
Cabells has surpassed the 10,000 journal mark for its Journal Blacklist, a searchable database of predatory journals identified by multiple breaches of 65 different criteria. Launched in June 2017, Cabells' Journal Blacklist claims to be the only database available to scholars… Read More
New RLUK, The National Archives and Jisc report to initiate a discussion about citation practices - November 2, 2018
Research Libraries UK (RLUK), The National Archives (TNA) and Jisc have published a report to kickstart a discussion about citation practices, and how to standardise references to unique and distinct collections (UDC's) held in repositories across the UK.… Read More
