Washington Research Library Consortium extends Ex Libris Alma and Primo implementation to additional libraries of member universities - October 23, 2017
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the number of libraries participating in the Ex Libris Alma® and Primo® implementation at the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC), in Washington has recently increased to 16. Georgetown University's Law Library, American University's Pence Law Library, and… Read More
Elsevier announces enhancements to Knovel platform, provides faster access to engineering answers and insights into complex engineering problems - October 20, 2017
Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, is making it easier for engineers, researchers and students to find answers and insights into increasingly complex engineering problems, and build foundational knowledge, with enhancements to its flagship engineering decision support solution, Knovel. Knovel's enhanced platform… Read More
Italian National Agency for University and Research Systems Evaluations selects Elsevier’s Scopus data for national research assessment - October 19, 2017
Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, has announced that the Italian National Agency for University and Research Systems Evaluations (ANVUR) has selected Scopus, the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific literature, as its bibliometric data provider for the review… Read More
SPIE partners with Code Ocean to increase research transparency and reproducibility - October 19, 2017
Not-for-profit publisher SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, now enables journal authors to share code through its new partnership with Code Ocean, an open platform that improves transparency and computational reproducibility to advance scientific research and invention. Authors publishing journal articles advancing light-based technologies… Read More
Taylor & Francis adds 6,000 ebooks to Academic Complete® - October 17, 2017
ProQuest has added 6,000 ebooks from Taylor & Francis to the Academic Complete® collection. Focused on offering a balance of quality and quantity, the pioneering subscription now offers unlimited, multi-user access to a growing selection of more than 150,000 ebooks from the world’s leading publishers. … Read More
Project MUSE expands its relationship with Google Scholar to implement Campus Activated Subscriber Access - October 16, 2017
Project MUSE, the trusted source for humanities and social science content from university presses and scholarly publishers, has expanded its relationship with Google Scholar to include implementation of Campus Activated Subscriber Access (CASA), providing seamless access to subscribed or purchased content for an institution's users even… Read More