Qatar National Library signs agreement with Springer for eBooks and journals - November 5, 2013
STM publisher Springer and the Qatar National Library (QNL) have signed a groundbreaking agreement for access to eBooks and electronic journals on Springer's platform SpringerLink. The national license entitles Qatar to use one of the largest scientific, technical and medical eBook collections in the world. … Read More
OCLC and ProQuest collaborate to automate e-book collection management - November 5, 2013
A new collaboration between OCLC and ProQuest automates the process to keep e-book holdings from ebrary and EBL – Ebook Library up to date in WorldCat and library catalogues and offers current links to library users for easy access to those titles.… Read More
Russia’s International Biotechnology Center Generium in deal with Elsevier to gain access to ScienceDirect and Embase - November 4, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Russia's International Biotechnology Center (IBC) Generium, has signed an agreement to grant access to ScienceDirect and Embase for its scientists. Access to ScienceDirect, Elsevier's full-text platform for scientific, technical and medical research literature and Embase, a comprehensive… Read More
National Library of Sweden to index Swedish National Bibliography in Serials Solutions’ Summon discovery service - November 4, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, is working with the National Library of Sweden to index the Swedish National Bibliography in the Summon discovery service. With the inclusion of the Swedish National Bibliographic Database in the Summon index, researchers will now be able to discover references… Read More
The Semantic Web Journal launches first version of Linked-Data Driven and Semantically Enabled Journal Platform - November 4, 2013
The Semantic Web Journal, published by IOS Press, has launched the first version of its Linked-Data Driven and Semantically Enabled Journal Platform (SEJP). The portal publishes a wide variety of data that are obtained from the journal’s unique and open review process. Each submitted manuscript… Read More
Montana Higher Education Institutions select Ex Libris’ discovery suite for its flexibility and best-in-class consortial support - October 31, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the University of Montana and the Montana State University System - both multi-campus consortia - have selected the Primo discovery and delivery solution, the SFX OpenURL link resolver, and the bX Recommender. The Ex Libris solutions… Read More
