Ingram Content Group announces new appointments - December 12, 2013
Ingram Content Group Inc., a US-based provider of physical and digital services, has announced the addition of new leaders to Ingram Publisher Services, Ingram's full-service publisher distribution and sales services company. Gonzalo Ferreyra has joined Ingram Publisher Services in the role of Director of Acquisitions,… Read More
OCLC library data now supplementing Yelp.com listings to improve public access to library information - December 11, 2013
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, is working with Yelp, a website and mobile app that connects consumers with great local businesses, to increase public access to local library information. Yelp is integrating information from the database of library listings maintained through… Read More
Digital bone library offers global resource for chronic disease identification - December 10, 2013
The Digitised Diseases web resource, created by the University of Bradford and Jisc, launched at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. The online resource contains 3D models of bones affected by over 90 chronic pathological conditions. These range from common complaints such as osteoarthritis, and… Read More
Library Community encourages FCC to make materials accessible via FDsys - December 9, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) recently joined others in the library community in a letter requesting that the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) make its primary legal materials and publicly available comments accessible via the Government Printing Office (GPO) Federal Digital System, FDsys. The… Read More
Wellcome Library signs up for new OA pilot project, Knowledge Unlatched - December 9, 2013
The Wellcome Library has signed up to a new open access pilot project, Knowledge Unlatched (KU). KU aims to make a collection of books, covering a wide range of humanities and social science topics, available on open access licenses through funding from hundreds of libraries. … Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health’ Customer Support team receives certification as a Center of Excellence by BenchmarkPortal for the fourth time - December 9, 2013
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that its Customer Support organisation for its Ovid and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins businesses received certification for the fourth time as a Center of Excellence by BenchmarkPortal, the global leader in support center benchmarking. The Technical Services team… Read More
