Serials Solutions’ Summon service expands discovery of Chinese content, adds academic content from CALIS - September 4, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that the Summon service has further expanded its discovery of Chinese content with the addition of academic content from CALIS, the China Academic Library and Information System. The new agreement allows the Summon Service to include abstracting and… Read More
Wyoming Community Colleges select Ex Libris’ Primo solution to provide unified search experience - September 4, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced the selection of the Primo discovery and delivery solution, bX Recommender, and SFX link resolver by Wyoming Community Colleges. Wyoming joins other states including Virginia, Florida, Hawaii, and Wisconsin where community colleges have adopted Primo statewide.… Read More
Tilburg University opts for OCLC WorldCat Local discovery service - August 30, 2012
Library information provider OCLC, US, has announced that Tilburg University, in the Netherlands, has gone live with WorldCat Local, the company's cloud-based discovery and delivery service that allow users to search their library's collection along with the collections of thousands of other libraries worldwide. With the… Read More
Springer unveils fully open access option for books - August 29, 2012
STM publisher Springer, Germany, plans to expand its open access (OA) programme by offering a fully OA option for books. This is expected to extend the company's SpringerOpen and BioMed Central journal portfolio, and its Springer Open Choice option. Any electronic version of a SpringerOpen book… Read More
The IET and EDU&SUN sign agreement to provide IET.tv video content to students and universities across China - August 22, 2012
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced an exclusive deal with EDU&SUN, a leading provider of educational resources in China, to provide IET.tv content to potentially 25 million students at technical universities across the country. This is the first licensing agreement of its kind… Read More
WK Health launches OvidOpenAccess to support the research needs of the global medical community - August 17, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced the release of OvidOpenAccess, a new search discovery feature that integrates thousands of Open Access (OA) resources within the OvidSP platform. OvidSP users can now conduct a single search query to uncover relevant answers to… Read More
