Carnegie Mellon University becomes 1,000th institution to select Ex Libris Alma library services platform - September 13, 2017
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Ex Libris Alma® cloud-based library services platform is now the system of choice for one thousand customers. The thousandth institution to select Alma is Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), which, like the 999 other Alma institutions, will benefit… Read More
Knowledge Unlatched unveils KU Open Services - September 12, 2017
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) will open its services to publishers with Open Services, designed to help publishers achieve greater impact for their Open Access (OA) books. The new service is an additional offer for those OA titles that have not been financed through KU's traditional crowd funding… Read More
Marin County Free Library selects OCLC’s CONTENTdm to manage digital collections - September 1, 2017
OCLC has announced that the Marin County Free Library's Anne T. Kent California Room, earlier this year, switched from locally hosting CONTENTdm to CONTENTdm hosted by OCLC. The library also switched to CONTENTdm's new responsive end-user interface, which has improved the display of its oral history… Read More
OCUL’s Scholars Portal Journals reaches 50M article milestone - September 1, 2017
The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) has announced that the Scholars Portal Journals platform has loaded its 50 millionth journal article. Scholars Portal Journals provides students, faculty and researchers at Ontario's universities easy access to articles on a wide range of academic subjects through… Read More
JoVE celebrates 10th anniversary, unveils completely revamped website - August 23, 2017
JoVE, the premier producer and publisher of video resources for scientific research and education, has launched a comprehensively redesigned website as part of its 10th anniversary celebration. JoVE.com is now fully responsive, more easily navigable and offers more utility, convenience and customisation to its millions of… Read More
ProQuest appoints Michael Rai as General Manager, Corporate Markets - August 18, 2017
ProQuest has appointed Michael Rai as the new General Manager, Corporate Markets, overseeing the ProQuest Dialog and Pi2™ products as well as sales of ProQuest content and book solutions to the company's corporate customers. ProQuest has been developing and investing in corporate solutions since it… Read More
