Library groups partner to create ORCID US community - February 2, 2018
LYRASIS has announced a partnership with the NorthEast Research Libraries, the Greater Western Library Alliance, and the Big Ten Academic Alliance to create a US community to support ORCID, a non-profit organisation based in Bethesda, Maryland. ORCID provides a unique persistent digital… Read More
London Info International 2018 – Business Design Centre, December 4-5, 2018 - January 26, 2018
London Info International 2018 will be creating a whole new experience for both exhibitors and visitors by integrating the conference and the exhibition along with the show floor presentations, networking and some additional new features. The physical space will be used more creatively. LII is developing… Read More
OECD trials with UNSILO to improve content discovery and collection-building - January 26, 2018
UNSILO and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have worked together on a proof of concept designed to improve content discovery and collection-building from the hundreds of thousands of books and papers available on the OECD Publishing platform, using UNSILO’s… Read More
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology names Dr. Dirk Elston as new editor - January 18, 2018
Board-certified dermatologist Dr. Dirk M. Elston, has been named the next editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. Dr. Elston, the journal's current deputy editor, will step into his new role in July 2018, succeeding board-certified dermatologist Dr. Bruce H. Thiers, who has… Read More
Association of Research Libraries Board of Directors appoints Mary Lee Kennedy as executive director - January 12, 2018
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Board of Directors has appointed Mary Lee Kennedy executive director of the Association, effective April 1, 2018. Kennedy is currently principal of the Kennedy Group, where she partners with organisations to empower local and global communities to create and use… Read More
New LPC resource for the library publishing community – Publishers and Service Providers List - January 9, 2018
As part of its new Publishers and Service Providers Program, the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) is releasing a new resource for the library publishing community: the Publishers and Service Providers List. The list is a place where any organisation eligible for the larger program (non-… Read More
