Elsevier offers entire collection of books and journals to innovators in developing nations via the ARDI programme - September 13, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it is now offering its entire collection of books and journals on its online platform ScienceDirect, as well as access to its abstracts and citation database Scopus to innovators in 105 countries for free or little cost through the… Read More
Ex Libris’ Primo Central Index to cover metadata from research data published by Australian National Data Service - September 13, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has reached an agreement with the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) to syndicate the metadata of the research data that ANDS stores and makes accessible to researchers. This agreement is part of the Ex Libris initiative to expand… Read More
IEEE and The MIT Press partner to deliver new eBooks collection via IEEE Xplore digital library - September 12, 2012
Technical professional organisation IEEE, US, has partnered with The MIT Press to offer access to a special selection of computing and engineering eBooks as part of the IEEE Xplore digital library. The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)… Read More
Serials Solutions’ Summon discovery service expands coverage of open access scholarly content - September 10, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced new agreements with three publishers of scholarly open access journal and book content. The publishers are: New Zealand based Libertas Academica; eScholarship@McGill, the McGill University open access collection; and the Directory of Open Access Books, provided by Open Access… Read More
OCLC and Europeana agree on approach for member libraries to contribute metadata to Europeana.eu portal - September 5, 2012
Library information provider OCLC, US, and Europeana, the provider of Europe's digital library, have worked together on an approach that will enable OCLC member institutions to contribute metadata derived from OCLC's WorldCat database to the Europeana.eu portal in a manner that is consistent with OCLC's WorldCat… Read More
De Gruyter to integrate Luxid into its primary online portal, De Gruyter Online - September 5, 2012
TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, and academic publishing house De Gruyter have announced a major license and services agreement. With semantic content enrichment developing into mainstream technology for the information industry, De Gruyter made the strategic decision to… Read More
