Allen Press to host sixth annual Best Practices and Innovative Solutions webinar series - May 12, 2014
Publishing services provider Allen Press, Inc., US, will host the sixth annual Best Practices and Innovative Solutions webinar series beginning this June. These six one-hour webinars, designed for societies, associations, and publishers, will be presented monthly beginning June 12 and ending November 20. Attendees can… Read More
Unitec Institute of Technology adopts Alma library management solution, migrates to cloud deployment of Primo - May 9, 2014
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that Unitec Institute of Technology has selected the Ex Libris Alma library management service and is consolidating its Ex Libris solutions into the cloud-based platform of Alma and Primo, unifying both resource management and resource discovery. … Read More
SPARC announces ‘Generation Open’ as theme for 2014 International Open Access Week - May 9, 2014
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that the theme for this year's International Open Access Week is "Generation Open". The theme will highlight the importance of students and early career researchers as advocates for change in the short-term, through institutional and governmental… Read More
Full text of entire EBL – Ebook Library catalogue now discoverable via Summon discovery service - May 7, 2014
ProQuest is boosting the visibility of ebooks in library collections by indexing the full text of the entire catalogue of EBL - Ebook Library in its Summon® discovery service. EBL's expansive catalogue of more than 400,000 ebooks is now even more discoverable alongside titles from ebrary,… Read More
Contributions for 6th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing called for - May 7, 2014
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, has announced that UNESCO will be hosting the 6th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, at their Paris Headquarters. The program planning for the event is well underway. As in previous years, the conference is directed towards the… Read More
WEDI organises emergency summit on ICD-10 implementation - May 5, 2014
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), a global, cause-based, not-for-profit organisation focused on better health through information technology (IT), has joined the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) and several other stakeholder organisations in pulling together a meeting to develop an industry action plan… Read More
