RCN Publishing adopts DataSalon’s MasterVision service - January 30, 2013
RCN Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal College of Nursing, has announced that they have adopted DataSalon's MasterVision service in order to gain a better understanding of their customer base and to further develop their business. MasterVision gives RCN Publishing a complete 'single… Read More
Swiss library BiG opts for Ex Libris’ Primo and Alma solutions - January 29, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the Bibliothek am Guisanplatz (BiG) in Switzerland has adopted its Primo discovery and delivery solution and the next-generation Alma resource management service. BiG, the leading library of the Alexandria Library Network, reportedly required an integrated framework… Read More
Semantico, ALPSP to hold seminar on strategies for building author-focused functionality - January 29, 2013
UK-based online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd. has announced that it is working with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) on a seminar titled 'Ignore your authors at your peril: strategies and tactics for building a strong author-focused proposition.'… Read More
More than 90 international university presses now preserving e-books with Portico - January 28, 2013
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that it is now preserving e-books from more than 90 university presses in 6 countries. This includes Cambridge University Press and university press e-books hosted by JSTOR (Books at JSTOR), Project Muse (UPCC Collections), and Oxford University… Read More
Ex Libris launches self-registration service, expands support for OA - January 28, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has launched a self-registration service enabling institutions to easily add the contents of their institutional repository (IR) to the Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic materials and thus expand the breadth of IR content in the index. Institutional… Read More
Serials Solutions unveils Spotlighting service for dynamic display options - January 25, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has introduced a new feature in its Summon discovery service, named Summon Spotlighting, which provides dynamic display options for specialised content types. Image Spotlighting is said to dramatically improve the discoverability of libraries' most unique and valued collections. Libraries are expected… Read More
