Five Swedish institutions select the Primo discovery and delivery solution from Ex Libris - September 22, 2011
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that five Swedish institutions joined the Primo community within the last month. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Mid Sweden University, Luleå University of Technology, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, and Jönköping University represent the latest in… Read More
Springer and the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research announce license agreement - September 21, 2011
STM publisher Springer, Germany, and the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research have signed a first national license for the acquisition of scientific, medical and technical (STM) information on the online platform SpringerLink. The French agency ABES (Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement… Read More
Serials Solutions’ Summon Service expands content available from OUP - September 21, 2011
Serials Solutions, a business unit of US-based ProQuest LLC, has announced that it has expanded its current agreement with Oxford University Press (OUP). The new deal will enable the discovery of five additional OUP resources from the Summon web-scale discovery service. With the inclusion of the… Read More
UK University selects EBSCO Discovery Service to help end users search multiple eResources from a single search box - September 21, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that the University of Cumbria in the UK has chosen EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to play an integral role in bringing a readily accessible digital library to students. The University will use its implementation of EDS to… Read More
UK Higher Education Funding Bodies select Elsevier’s SciVerse Scopus as Data Provider for 2014 Research Excellence Framework - September 20, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that four UK Higher Education Funding Bodies (representing England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) will use Elsevier's SciVerse Scopus database as the sole bibliometric provider for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The Framework was developed to assess the quality… Read More
Ithaka S+R announces Research Support Services for Scholars programme - September 19, 2011
Ithaka S+R, the strategy and research arm of Ithaka, has announced a new programme, Research Support Services for Scholars. This programme will comprise a series of discipline-specific research projects aimed to provide critically needed research about the evolving behaviour and needs of scholars to the information… Read More
