The Society for Scholarly Publishing to continue its Librarian Focus Group sessions at the American Geophysical Union in Washington, DC - January 8, 2016
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) continues its Librarian Focus Group sessions with "Provoking thoughts: The End of Libraries and Publishers as We Know It". This will be a panel session held in Washington, DC, on February 2, 2016 at the American Geophysical Union. The day-long… Read More
Elsevier announces expansion of Knovel Interactive Equations - January 6, 2016
More than 1,100 definitive equations across eight subject areas are now available through Knovel's powerful search engine and featuring interactivity unique to the Knovel platform. Knovel's fully integrated Math Solver enables engineers and scientists to access Knovel's interactive equations or build their own. Students, professors, as… Read More
Harvard’s Jonathan Zittrain to lead panel on creativity, innovation and transformation at ALA Midwinter Meeting - December 30, 2015
Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder, director, and faculty chair, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, will be a featured speaker, along with American Library Association (ALA) President Sari Feldman and other ALA leadership, in a discussion on how library professionals can further emphasise the critical… Read More
Researchers from universities across Israel to benefit from CAS solutions - December 29, 2015
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society and world's authority for chemical information, and MALMAD consortium - Israeli Center for Digital Information Services have announced a five-year agreement to provide SciFinder® with PatentPak™ access to all universities in Israel. PatentPak, a robust… Read More
ARL releases Library Liaison report, spurs discussion of liaison roles - December 22, 2015
The Association of Research Libraries has released the final report of a pilot Library Liaison Institute organised by Columbia University Libraries, Cornell University Libraries, and the University of Toronto Libraries, and held at Cornell University in June 2015. Nearly 50 liaison librarians from the three Association… Read More
Thomson Reuters collaborates with Russia’s scientific electronic library eLIBRARY.RU - December 21, 2015
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with Russia's scientific electronic library eLIBRARY.RU. The collaboration will bring the nation's research to the forefront of the global scholarly research landscape with the inclusion of the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI), within… Read More
