Gale indexes millions of pages of content with Google and library discovery services for easier access and improved researcher workflow - June 23, 2015
Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, is supporting discovery by working with Google to index millions of documents in Google Scholar, and expanding the amount of content indexed by major library discovery services. In addition, Gale is promoting transparency in discovery through compliance with industry information… Read More
Portico tackles the ‘long tail,’ focuses on small publishers - June 23, 2015
Digital preservation specialist Portico has grown to include more than 300 participating publishers—representing more than 2,000 societies and associations—and more than half are small publishers. The recent increase in signings of 'small' publishers that produce ten titles or fewer is a result of community feedback. … Read More
Penton announces new appointments to lead growth in marketing services - June 23, 2015
Penton, an innovative professional information services company, has appointed Barbara Couchois to the newly created role of vice president, marketing monetisation and named George Assimakopoulos head of client services, to drive the company's exceptional growth in marketing services. The company's marketing services group has more than… Read More
Thomson Reuters releases 40th annual Journal Citation Reports, breaks new ground in journal evaluation - June 22, 2015
The Intellectual Property (IP) & Science business of Thomson Reuters is changing the face of scholarly journal evaluation with the release of the 2015 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) that includes the integration of a new metric, the Journal Impact Factor Percentile; a Normalized Eigenfactor®; detailed analysis… Read More
NISTEP collaborates with Thomson Reuters to standardise titles of research funders in Web of Science - June 19, 2015
The National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, and the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters have announced a collaboration to standardise definitions of research funding organisations… Read More
EBSCO Partners with Masaryk University Press, adds more Czech titles to EBSCO eBook offerings - June 19, 2015
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Masaryk University Press have collaborated to offer more than 80 Czech titles via EBSCO eBooks. The titles from Masaryk University Press will provide libraries with more multidisciplinary Czech titles representing a wide range of fields – including social science, historiography, linguistics… Read More
