UK universities save over £1.38bn through shared services, streamlined processes - April 24, 2015
Loughborough University and the Efficiency Exchange, the service operated by Universities UK (UUK) in partnership with Jisc, Leadership Foundation and HEFCEA have launched a new report on the potential of collaboration and shared services in UK higher education (HE). Praise is given to the efficiency… Read More
ProQuest ebrary adds new titles for Subscription, Purchase, and DDA in March and April - April 23, 2015
Ebrary added over 2,900 titles for Purchase in March. New titles came from publishers like Oxford University Press, ABC-CLIO, and Springer Publishing Group. Subjects range from mathematics to education to literature and reference. Furthermore, ebrary also added thousands of new titles to subscription collections in April,… Read More
EBSCO Information Services introduces YBP Core Titles Collections - April 22, 2015
EBSCO Information Services has introduced 10 new EBSCO eBooks™ Featured Collections designed to give academic libraries a simple way to add important titles to their collections. The YBP US Core Titles Collections and the YBP UK Core Titles Collections are each comprised of five subject-related collections… Read More
Digital Science’s first webinar ‘Best Practices in Research Object Management’ scheduled for May 5 - April 21, 2015
Global technology company Digital Science has announced its first webinar, as part of an ongoing series. The aim of these webinars is to address key challenges that institutions face and to examine the ways in which those challenges can be met. Laura Wheeler, Community Manager… Read More
Simba launches new quarterly report series on growing Ed Tech Startup industry - April 20, 2015
Demand for technology-based educational resources aimed at improving student achievement at all grade levels is spurring unprecedented activity in the development of new products. The result has been the creation of a lively startup industry that is changing the overall educational publishing industry and challenging traditional ways of providing education… Read More
ARL sponsors free workshop, ‘Libraries that Learn Exchange of Experience: Using LibQUAL+ and Other Data’ - April 20, 2015
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is sponsoring a free workshop, 'Libraries that Learn Exchange of Experience: Using LibQUAL+ and Other Data,' on July 20, 2015, in conjunction with the 11th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services, to be held in… Read More
