Usage statistics for Pilot and Round 2 e-books now available - January 18, 2017
Knowledge Unlatched, a not-for- profit company based in England, has revealed the first download figures for KU Round 2 titles that have been unlatched so far. In Round 2, 78 new Humanities and Social Sciences e-books from 26 publishers were made Open Access through the… Read More
OCLC’s acquisition of Relais International to provide library consortia more options for resource sharing - January 18, 2017
OCLC has agreed to acquire Relais International, an interlibrary loan solution provider based in Ottawa, Canada, to significantly increase resource sharing options and capabilities for both Relais customers and OCLC member libraries and groups worldwide. Relais has been working with libraries for more than 20… Read More
EBSCO Information Services and Stacks Inc. accepting entries for inaugural Stacks Public Library Website Makeover Award - January 18, 2017
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Stacks Inc. (Stacks) are now accepting applications for the inaugural Stacks Public Library Website Makeover Award. One winner will receive a free three-year library website makeover as well as up to $1,000 in travel expenses to attend… Read More
EBSCO Information Services awarded Bronze in Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards in Technology - January 11, 2017
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has been awarded Bronze in the 2016 Brandon Hall Group Awards for Best Advance in Performance Support Technology. EBSCO won the coveted award due to the effective combination of its powerful search platform, EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) and its robust organisational learning… Read More
Clarivate Analytics names 2016 Top 100 Global Innovators - January 11, 2017
Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, has announced its highly anticipated list of 2016 Top 100 Global Innovators. The report honours the most innovative corporations and institutions in the world as determined by the robust analysis of unique and proprietary… Read More
Submissions for 2017 Reaxys PhD Prize now open - January 10, 2017
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that the 2017 Reaxys PhD Prize is open for submissions from young chemists from institutions worldwide. Open to all PhD students and recent graduates conducting original and innovative research in chemistry, the Reaxys PhD Prize has nurtured advances in chemistry since… Read More
