ebrary announces initial results of 2011 Global Student E-book Survey - November 2, 2011
E-books and research technology provider ebrary, US, has announced the initial results of its 2011 Global Student E-book Survey. A comparison of the new survey with the same survey conducted in 2008 implies that aggregators, publishers, and librarians need to better collaborate to address students' information… Read More
Elsevier announces availability of Urban and Fischer Journal Archives on SciVerse ScienceDirect - November 2, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the availability of Elsevier Urban & Fischer Journal Archives, three new backfile collections in the life and health sciences, on SciVerse ScienceDirect. The new backfiles, published in English under the German imprint Urban & Fischer, contain journals concerning immunology and… Read More
Open resource to support PhD scholars with research data management unveiled - October 31, 2011
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that an online training course to help disseminate good practice in research data management is now free to use by PhD students, early career researchers and digital data users at all UK universities. It was developed at the… Read More
Elsevier and EarthChem implement two-way linking for Earth Sciences content - October 28, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and EarthChem, a portal facilitating discovery and accessibility of a consortium of databases, have implemented two-way linking between their respective Earth Sciences content. Elsevier-published research articles from 32 journals, hosted on SciVerse ScienceDirect will be automatically linked to the corresponding research datasets… Read More
Smartphones and tablets drive digital traffic in top EU nations, says comScore report - October 27, 2011
comScore, Inc., a US-based provider of digital marketing information, has released an overview of the mobile and connected device landscape across EU5 - the five leading European markets of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. The data shows cross-platform digital media consumption on the rise… Read More
ARL publishes SPEC Kit 325, focuses on digital preservation - October 26, 2011
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Digital Preservation, SPEC Kit 325, which explores the strategies that ARL member institutions use to protect evolving research collections and examines the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders. The survey asked ARL libraries about their digital content, their strategies… Read More
