OCLC Research launches multilingual bibliographic structure activity - June 3, 2014
In order to leverage the multilingual content in WorldCat and make it easier for users to identify resources in their preferred language and script, OCLC Research has launched the multilingual bibliographic structure activity. With this initiative to mine the data from translated works, OCLC aims to… Read More
Australia’s Bond University opts for Ex Libris Alma and Primo - June 3, 2014
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris® Group has announced that Bond University, in Queensland, Australia, has selected the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution and the Alma resource management service. The growing collection of the library's electronic resources, together with its strategic priority of supporting… Read More
HighWire Press receives significant equity investment from Accel-KKR to support strategic growth - June 2, 2014
HighWire Press, a technology service provider to influential scholarly publishers and an auxiliary unit of Stanford University Libraries, has received a significant equity investment to support its strategic growth from Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity firm. The new partnership enables HighWire to further its investment in… Read More
Boopsie and NoveList partnership to provide in-app catalogue access to NoveList Select - June 2, 2014
Boopsie, Inc., a mobile app platform for libraries, has partnered with NoveList®, an EBSCO Information Services offering, to provide in-app catalogue access to NoveList Select™. NoveList Select applies NoveList’s expert-generated book recommendations to a library’s catalogue. Patrons search for a title in… Read More
Research and publishing network, ScienceOpen launches - June 2, 2014
Research and publishing network, ScienceOpen, which published its first Open Access articles in April, is now officially launching to coincide with the SSP 36th Annual Meeting (#SSPBOSTON). This next generation Open Access (OA) platform builds on the premise that scholarly publishing is not an end… Read More
Harvard Library on track to implement Primo - June 2, 2014
The Harvard Library is on track to implement Primo - a new scholarly search tool - this summer. The Library, following an extensive review of discovery systems, announced its decision to adopt the Primo discovery and delivery system from Ex Libris in April 2014. Discovery systems… Read More
