SPARC-sponsored report on Strategies for Sustaining Open Access Resources released - April 5, 2013
Knowledge Exchange has released 'The Collective Provision of Open Access Resources,' the third report in its multiphase 'Sustainability of Open Access Resources' initiative. Knowledge Exchange is a cooperative effort that includes Finland's CSC (IT Center for Science), Denmark's Electronic Research Library (DEFF), the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Joint Information… Read More
Newly established Ural Regional Universities Consortium in Russia gains access to ScienceDirect and Scopus - April 4, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its official collaboration with the Ural Regional Universities Consortium by providing 11 universities in Russia's Ural region with access to ScienceDirect and Scopus throughout 2013. Led by the Ural Federal University, the Ural Regional University Consortium was newly established… Read More
The London Book Fair to feature first ever literary ‘pop-up’ version of The Club at The Ivy - April 3, 2013
The London Book Fair has announced that this year's book fair will feature the first ever literary 'pop-up' version of The Club at The Ivy, the prestigious London private members' club. The Club at The Ivy spans three floors of the building that also houses… Read More
LRG launches third annual study of North American library spending and budgeting - April 2, 2013
The Library Resource Guide (LRG) has launched its third annual study of library spending and budgeting. Respondents to the study will be eligible to download the final report at no charge when the results are published and will be entered into a sweepstakes drawing for… Read More
ARL publishes Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2010-2011 - April 2, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2010–2011, which presents data describing collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 63 health sciences libraries at ARL member institutions in the US and Canada. In 2010–2011, the reporting health sciences libraries… Read More
Springer, CAS collaboration to accelerate chemistry research - April 1, 2013
STM publisher Springer and chemical information provider Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, will collaborate to include thousands of new experimental procedures for chemical reactions reported in Springer journals in the CAS databases. This collaboration will increase… Read More
