Danish library collections now discoverable via WorldCat - April 9, 2014
Dansk Bibliotekscenter (DBC) is partnering with OCLC to synchronize DANBIB, the Danish national union catalogue, with WorldCat, making real-time updates that will result in faster visibility of the collections around the world through leading websites and search engines. Synchronizing the DANBIB catalogue with WorldCat in… Read More
University of South Carolina selects EBSCO Discovery Service with Encore - April 8, 2014
Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that the University of South Carolina (USC) has selected EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) with Encore as its discovery service. The university was looking for a single search box for its users but also wanted the flexibility… Read More
Elsevier and MyScienceWork collaboration allows users access to wealth of full text articles outside of ScienceDirect - April 3, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced its collaboration with scientific social network MyScienceWork on a pilot initiative to enable researchers to easily share and discover over 11 million articles through MyScienceWork. The pilot will allow MyScienceWork users to read, annotate and share articles… Read More
Universidad Autónoma de Occidente in Colombia selects EBSCO Discovery Service - April 1, 2014
Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente has chosen EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) as its discovery tool. The library was looking for something easy to use but sophisticated enough to provide quality results. After evaluating other discovery services,… Read More
NetAdvance and OCLC to add metadata from JapanKnowledge and JK Books collections to WorldCat - March 31, 2014
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, and NetAdvance are working together to add metadata from the JapanKnowledge and JK Books collections to WorldCat. WorldCat claims to be the world's most comprehensive online catalogue of library resources, increasing discovery and access to these rich… Read More
Scopus launches Cited References Expansion Program for archival content - March 28, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Scopus has launched its Cited References Expansion Program to include cited references in its database going back to 1970 for pre-1996 content. In addition to increasing the depth of Scopus' scholarly content, including cited references for pre-1996 content will… Read More
