Elsevier acquires Atira, deepens SciVal’s ability to help academic institutions manage and improve research outcomes - August 16, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the acquisition of Atira, a provider of software and tools that help academic institutions and researchers manage and improve their research outcomes. Atira complements Elsevier's SciVal by expanding the scope of data to report on research activities across an academic… Read More
OCLC publishes bibliographic linked data for most widely held works in WorldCat - August 16, 2012
OCLC, a US-based non-profit, membership, computer library service and research organisation, has published bibliographic linked data for the most widely held works in WorldCat. This downloadable file - representing nearly 1.2 million resources - contains about 80 million linked data 'triples,' the term for the most… Read More
Northwestern University joins VIVO network with Elsevier’s SciVal Experts - August 13, 2012
Northwestern University, in collaboration with STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its participation in VIVO, a semantic network that enables the discovery of researchers across institutions. By bringing its researchers together in a single hub called Northwestern Scholars, an implementation of Elsevier's SciVal Experts research networking… Read More
Serials Solutions and National Research Council of Canada in deal to index NRC Publications Archive in the Summon service - August 13, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced an agreement with the National Research Council of Canada to index the NRC Publications Archive in the Summon service to expand access to valuable scientific research information. The web-based archive is an online repository containing more than 50,000 publication… Read More
University library of Skövde selects WorldCat Local - August 10, 2012
OCLC, a US-based non-profit, membership, computer library service and research organisation, has announced that the University library of Skövde has selected WorldCat Local as its new discovery service. University library of Skövde is the first university library in Sweden to use OCLC's integrated solution for discovery… Read More
OCLC recommends Open Data Commons Attribution License for WorldCat data - August 7, 2012
OCLC, a US-based nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organisation, is recommending the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-BY) for member institutions that would like to release their library catalogue data on the Web. This open data license provides the means for users to… Read More
