Saarland University and State Library in Germany selects EBSCO Discovery Service - December 2, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that the Saarland University and State Library (SULB) in Germany has selected the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to help the library consolidate its diverse resources and make them more readily available to library users through an… Read More
OCLC partners with King Abdulaziz Public Library to make Arabic-language resources available via WorldCat.org - December 1, 2011
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has added more than 1.2 million brief bibliographic records to WorldCat.org for materials held by Arab libraries, records that represent the complete catalogue of the Arabic Union Catalog (AUC) maintained in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Each record from the AUC in WorldCat.org… Read More
JISC Collections and Elsevier renew agreement for e-journal content - November 30, 2011
JISC Collections, the membership organisation that supports the provision of digital content for education and research in the UK, has agreed to the terms of a license to renew access for the next five years to Elsevier's journal content, via SciVerse ScienceDirect… Read More
Helmut Schmidt University selects Serials Solutions’ Summon web-scale discovery service - November 29, 2011
Serials Solutions, a business unit of the US-based ProQuest LLC, has announced that its Summon web-scale discovery service has been selected by Helmut Schmidt University, University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg. The University selected the Summon web-scale discovery to offer their users a single starting… Read More
Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology launches digitisation project - November 29, 2011
The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology (WLM) has embarked on a project that will bring its collection of rare books, multimedia materials and artefacts to people around the world. The collection of information regarding the history of anaesthesia is stated to reside at… Read More
Peking University to deploy Serials Solutions Summon Discovery Service - November 22, 2011
Serials Solutions, a business unit of the US-based ProQuest LLC, has announced that the Peking University in China has selected the Summon service to improve the discoverability and usability of its vast collection of digital resources and library materials. Recognised for its academic achievements and modern… Read More
