OCLC forms strategic partnership with Sustainable Collection Services - January 23, 2012
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced a strategic partnership with Sustainable Collection Services, LLC, an organisation founded by the principals of R2 Consulting, that leverages WorldCat Data to help libraries intelligently manage their print monograph collections. Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) makes use of the… Read More
APA’s research database, PsycTESTS, now available on OvidSP platform - January 23, 2012
The American Psychological Association (APA) and Ovid, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, have announced the availability of the APA’s research database, PsycTESTS, on the OvidSP platform. This distribution arrangement between APA and Ovid offers institutions choice in access to this database of ready-to-use test instruments,… Read More
SpringerLink now offers over 50,000 eBooks - January 20, 2012
STM publisher Springer has announced that its online platform SpringerLink now offers more than 50,000 eBooks. SpringerLink provides electronic access to scientific and specialist journals, eBooks, book series and reference works. The publications cover topics from 12 subject collections such as mathematics, computer science, medicine, engineering,… Read More
BioMed Central notes expanded use of ‘Availability of supporting data section’ in journals - January 20, 2012
Open Access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that since it introduced additional data sharing resources for authors and editors last year, there have been a number of further developments in the field that have necessitated an update to its supporting data information. Eight more… Read More
Elsevier and Tsinghua University Department of Computer Science and Technology collaborate to introduce new research productivity solutions - January 19, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has collaborated with Tsinghua University Department of Computer Science and Technology in Beijing to introduce four new research productivity enhancing applications for SciVerse Applications. The applications – GeneTUKit, Company Search, Patent Search and Topic Cloud – seek to help researchers identify the… Read More
Ex Libris expands Primo customer base in North America - January 19, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that in recent months, numerous academic and research libraries in North America have selected the Primo discovery and delivery solution, raising the number of Primo sites worldwide to over 900. Institutions that have recently selected… Read More
