Australia’s national science agency selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo - November 20, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has selected the Alma library management service and the Primo discovery and delivery solution. Alma and Primo replace a number of systems including Ex Libris Voyager and Proquest… Read More
Elsevier and Ex Libris announce collaborative initiative to incorporate SNIP and SNR journal metrics in the ranking of search results - November 19, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier and library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group have announced a collaborative initiative to use the source normalised impact per paper (SNIP) and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) metrics in calculating relevance ranking for Primo search results. The SNIP… Read More
Primo Central Index now features metadata from e-books and e-journals published by De Gruyter - November 18, 2013
The Primo Central Index, a discovery and delivery service offered by the library software provider Ex Libris, now features metadata from all of the e-books and e-journals published by De Gruyter as well as its imprints and publishing partners. The Primo Central… Read More
ProQuest automates ebrary and EBL Holdings in its Summon and 360 services - November 8, 2013
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, is streamlining librarian workflows by automating holdings updates for its ebooks businesses, ebrary and EBL - Ebook Library in the knowledgebase supporting the Summon service as well as its 360 discovery and management services. The process, which is currently… Read More
Thomson Reuters collaborates with Australian National Data Service to aid in the discovery of global data sets - November 6, 2013
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with Australian National Data Service (ANDS) to aid in the discovery of global data sets. The collaboration connects researchers to data repositories through the Data Citation Index, a single-point solution providing access to… Read More
Russia’s Ministry of Education and Science selects Elsevier’s SciVal Strata to assess Russia’s research performance - November 5, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier has reached an agreement with Russia's Ministry of Education and Science to provide access to SciVal Strata for the assessment of Russia's Research Performance. Access to SciVal Strata, a performance benchmarking tool within Elsevier's SciVal suite of research management solutions, builds on the… Read More
