EBSCO Discovery Service helps Universidade do Porto in Portugal increase usage of library resources - February 13, 2015
Universidade do Porto, the largest university in Portugal, has found great success with the implementation of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). The university purchased EDS in 2011 after looking at several different services. The university library found that EDS offered the best… Read More
EBSCO support and funding to ensure long-term viability of Koha - February 12, 2015
EBSCO Information Services and Koha, an ILS created by librarians for librarians, are working together to provide a viable web-based, open source ILS for libraries of all types. Koha libraries reached out to EBSCO for support of some important projects, and EBSCO agreed to partner… Read More
JSTOR moves to new platform - February 12, 2015
ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organisation helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways, and Atypon®, a provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry, jointly announced the move… Read More
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México upgrades to EBSCO Discovery Service - February 10, 2015
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City, Mexico, has switched from another discovery provider's service to EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). UNAM was founded in 1551, making it the oldest university in North America. It is… Read More
Oklahoma State University Libraries select Ex Libris Alma and Primo - February 3, 2015
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that Oklahoma State University (OSU), together with the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical (A&M) College System of 11 universities and colleges, has selected Ex Libris Alma for next-generation resource management services and Ex Libris Primo® for unified resource… Read More
Historical databases now accessible to libraries through WorldCat and WorldCat Discovery Services - January 30, 2015
Accessible Archives, Inc., a publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases, has entered into an agreement with OCLC, a nonprofit library cooperative providing research, programs and services for libraries, to add MARC records from hundreds of digitised historical book resources to WorldCat for discovery of these… Read More
