OCLC and StackMap partner to enhance discovery experience for library users - January 28, 2019
Non-profit global library cooperative OCLC has announced a partnership with StackMap, an indoor mapping and way-finding service, to enhance the discovery of library materials by providing detailed directions to the location of physical items within a library. Libraries currently using WorldShare Management Services (WMS) and… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - January 28, 2019
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Roger C. Schonfeld (More Scholarly Communications Consolidation as Institutional Repository Provider DuraSpace Merges into Lyrasis); Jeffrey Brainard (Scientific societies worry Plan S will make them shutter journals, slash services); Sascha Friesike, Benedikt Fecher and Gert. G. Wagner (Now is the… Read More
SAGE Publishing partners with OhioLINK to offer significant discounts on e-Textbooks to students - January 25, 2019
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced a partnership with Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK), a state wide academic library consortium, to give students access to discounted e-Textbooks. With the new agreement, students will pay an average of $29 per eBook, saving more than 60% per… Read More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Wiley partnership to expand access to Advanced Placement materials - January 25, 2019
Learning company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has entered into a partnership with John Wiley and Sons, Inc., a global leader in research and education, to become the exclusive distributor of its Advanced Placement® (AP®), honours and electives catalogue in the K-12 market. The addition of Wiley's AP… Read More
BMC Series journal, BMC Materials, now open for submissions - January 25, 2019
The latest BMC Series journal, BMC Materials, has opened for submissions. BMC Materials joins other new journals - BMC Biomedical Engineering, BMC Chemical Engineering, BMC Energy, BMC Mechanical Engineering and BMC Chemistry - which mark the BMC Series' expansion into the physical sciences and engineering. … Read More
EBSCO Health acquires HealthDecision - January 25, 2019
EBSCO Health, a provider of evidence-based clinical information tools including DynaMed Plus®, Dynamic Health™ and Option Grid™, has expanded with the acquisition of HealthDecision®. HealthDecision is a clinical decision support and shared decision making tool for clinicians and patients at the point of care. The… Read More
