Saint Peter’s University selects integrated suite of ProQuest discovery services to meet research needs of its library users - October 2, 2014
ProQuest has announced that Saint Peter’s University will meet the research needs and expectations of its library users with an integrated suite of ProQuest discovery services – the Summon® discovery service, the 360 Link link resolver and Syndetic Solutions™. The addition of these services at Saint… Read More
OCLC introduces WorldCat Discovery API beta, offers libraries access to WorldCat and a central index representing aggregated e-resource collections - October 2, 2014
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has announced the beta availability of the new WorldCat Discovery API, which provides access for libraries to search and find resources in both WorldCat and a central index of article and e-book metadata that represent the wide… Read More
Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities now available digitally as American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955™ via EBSCO - October 1, 2014
The print index, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities (DDAAU), is now available digitally as American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955™. EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston worked together to digitize the content and build the free database… Read More
Austin Community College and McGraw-Hill Education unveil world’s largest adaptive - October 1, 2014
McGraw-Hill Education and Austin Community College unveiled the world's largest "math emporium," a 600-seat lab that has the capacity to serve half of the district's over 41,000 credit students in developmental math at the 2014 annual EDUCAUSE conference. Known as the ACCelerator,… Read More
LIBER calls on European Commission to take measures towards enabling Open Science - October 1, 2014
On the eve of the closing of the European Consultation on Science 2.0, LIBER issued a statement both welcoming the Consultation as a step towards strengthening the competitiveness of European research, and calling on the European Commission to take measures towards enabling Open Science. Commenting… Read More
Scope unveils new enhanced version of SemantiCzTM - September 30, 2014
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced the release of an enhanced version of its content enrichment solution, SemantiCzTM. Advanced text mining and ontology based semantic tagging are some of the key features of the… Read More
