Ex Libris announces Oded Scharfstein as President - November 18, 2020
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced Oded Scharfstein as president of Ex Libris. Scharfstein will succeed Bar Veinstein who will continue leading Ex Libris until January 2021, and going forward, will serve on the company’s advisory board. Scharfstein has more than 15 years of… Read More
Scilligence partners with CAS to enable direct access to CAS scientific content through Scilligence informatics platform - November 17, 2020
Scilligence, a provider of web-based informatics solutions for R&D, has partnered with CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, to enable direct access to CAS scientific content through the Scilligence informatics platform. A previous partnership between Scilligence and CAS enabled users to initiate SciFindern searches… Read More
Elsevier and US-UK Fulbright Commission announce winners of UK Early Career Researcher Awards 2020 - November 17, 2020
Elsevier, in partnership with the US-UK Fulbright Commission, has announced the winners of the UK Early Career Researcher Awards 2020. The ECR Awards champion researchers at an early stage in their career by recognising their work and awarding each recipient a grant… Read More
McGraw Hill now provides digital textbooks to academic libraries on the ProQuest® Ebook Central® platform - November 17, 2020
Learning science company McGraw Hill has begun making its widely used digital textbooks available for sale and distribution to US academic libraries through Ebook Central, the eBook platform from EdTech leader ProQuest, a leading partner to academic libraries in the US and… Read More
APS launches new outreach service, Grow: Plant Health Exchange - November 17, 2020
The American Phytopathological Society (APS) has launched Grow: Plant Health Exchange, an online, science-based resource for plant health management professionals and practitioners to exchange knowledge and discover the latest applied research. All the content is freely accessible, without a subscription, to share the information among practitioners.… Read More
Jisc relaunches digital archival collections - November 17, 2020
Jisc is relaunching a digital archival collection purchasing scheme that will help institutions reduce the cost of buying digital collections and archives from publishers and opens up the scheme to academic-related affiliates. Digital archival collections of primary source material are an… Read More
