SwetsWise Online Content e-journal gateway now fully searchable via the Primo Central Index - March 15, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that following an agreement with Swets, a developer of innovative content management services for libraries and publishers, mutual customers will be able to search the SwetsWise Online Content e-journal gateway via the Primo Central Index of scholarly… Read More
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences to be preserved with Portico - March 13, 2013
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) has entered into an agreement with non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico to preserve its journal. Through this agreement, PNAS seeks to ensure that its e-journal will be preserved and… Read More
Elsevier and Hacettepe University to host event on research performance and evaluation in Turkey - March 12, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the meeting: Turkey and Turkish University's Research Outputs in the Context of International Trends in Science and Collaboration Opportunities, which will take place on 12 March at the Congress Center of Hacettepe University, Sihhiye Campus in Ankara, Turkey. The meeting… Read More
Over 100 A&I databases indexed in Serials Solutions Summon discovery service - March 8, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that the Summon discovery service now includes content from more than 100 abstract and indexing (A&I) databases – including nearly 90 ProQuest databases. Unlike other discovery services, it has been stated, A&I content in the Summon service is leveraged… Read More
Springer teams up with CIC host publishing symposium to bring publishers and librarians together - March 8, 2013
STM publisher Springer and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) held their first-ever publishing symposium at University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center on March 7, 2013. The gathering was established as an important opportunity to create dialogue between early-career publishers and librarians, in an effort to nurture… Read More
UK publishers, other stakeholders discuss challenges in implementing OA policies - March 8, 2013
Representatives from the UK government, funders, libraries, university administrators, learned societies, publishers and researchers came together at a conference on February 25, sponsored by five of the leading British learned societies. The agenda was to discuss the challenges of implementing the UK government policy on open access (OA) publication and… Read More
