University libraries and German SCOAP3 partners meet to discuss OA in High Energy Physics - September 15, 2011
Representatives of university libraries recently met with representatives of the German SCOAP3 partners - TIB, Max-Planck-Society und Helmholtz Association - for a workshop at TIB in Hannover. The international consortium SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) seeks to convert high quality High… Read More
Elsevier’s SciVerse Scopus selected by Australian Research Council for ERA 2012 Research Assessment - September 13, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Australian Research Council has selected SciVerse Scopus for the third time as the sole citation provider for the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment for 2012. ERA is an Australian Government initiative to assess the quality… Read More
Springer releases new web tool to increase quality of metadata - September 13, 2011
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has released a new web tool that allows cataloguers and librarians to easily download tailor-made batches of MARC records (Machine-Readable-Cataloging) or eBook title lists. The new tool, projected to increase the quality of metadata, allows librarians to download a batch of records… Read More
OCLC, Ex Libris partner to integrate WorldCat Search API into Ex Libris unified discovery and delivery services - September 13, 2011
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has signed an agreement with library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group. The deal will enable Ex Libris to incorporate the WorldCat Search API into several Ex Libris discovery and delivery services, providing OCLC member libraries access to WorldCat through the… Read More
Alexander Street Press launches Nursing Education in Video online collection - September 13, 2011
Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press, US, has released Nursing Education in Video, an online collection of streaming video for the training and education of nurses and nursing assistants. The result of a partnership with Medcom-Trainex, Nursing Education in Video covers the fundamentals of nurse training… Read More
Full text of HathiTrust collection made searchable via EDS - September 9, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced an agreement with HathiTrust. The deal allows for full text searching of HathiTrust content within EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), giving EDS users access to the entire array of HathiTrust's collection. This is seen to greatly expand their… Read More
