OCLC and EBSCO partner to provide interoperability of services for libraries and increased options for discovery - June 26, 2012
OCLC, a US-based nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organisation, and electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) have signed an agreement to make EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) interoperable with OCLC WorldShare Management Services. The move will enable libraries to use EDS as their discovery… Read More
OCLC signs up more publishers to expand content on WorldCat Local - June 25, 2012
OCLC, a US-based nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organisation, has signed new agreements with global publishers and has added a list of new collections to WorldCat Local. The OCLC discovery and delivery service offers users integrated access to more than 969 million items. … Read More
Thomson Reuters’ Data Citation Index connects researchers to data repositories worldwide - June 22, 2012
The Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters has announced that it will preview at the American Library Association Conference (ALA) the Data Citation Index, an upcoming research resource within the Web of Knowledge to facilitate the discovery, use and attribution of data sets and… Read More
New features in the Summon discovery service enable streamlined access of local library and consortia content by researchers - June 22, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced a new catalogue display functionality, as well as support for consortia catalogues in the Summon discovery service. The new catalogue detail page improves display of items from both local and consortia catalogues indexed in the Summon service. Optimised… Read More
George Mason University Libraries select Ex Libris’ Primo discovery and delivery system - June 21, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that George Mason University Libraries have selected the Primo discovery and delivery system. Combined with the Primo Central Index of scholarly e-resources, the Primo system enables users to search the entire spectrum of a library's… Read More
OCLC adds linked data to WorldCat, appends Schema.org descriptive mark-up to WorldCat.org pages - June 21, 2012
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced that it is taking the first step toward adding linked data to WorldCat by appending Schema.org descriptive mark-up to WorldCat.org pages. WorldCat.org now offers the largest set of linked bibliographic data on the Web. With the addition of Schema.org… Read More
