Ex Libris Group launches Ex Libris Developer Network - April 30, 2014
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced the global launch of the Ex Libris Developer Network - an open environment in which developers and IT professionals can collaborate across libraries and with Ex Libris to experiment with applications and extensions to the company's solutions.… Read More
New agreement between Max Planck Society and SPIE paves way for open access publication in SPIE Digital Library - April 30, 2014
The Max Planck Society has announced a new agreement with SPIE the international society for optics and photonics. Research articles by authors at the Max Planck Society institutes that are published in SPIE journals will be open access. The Max Planck Society will pay open access… Read More
American Lawyer Media engages Scope for mining high quality market data - April 29, 2014
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of business process outsourcing services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced an ongoing engagement with American Lawyer Media (ALM), the leading provider of specialized news and business information to the legal and commercial real estate industries. As… Read More
STRIATUS/JBJS and Aries Systems announce development partnership to facilitate generation of PRE-score – a new metric to evaluate peer review quality - April 29, 2014
Peer review practices vary widely. Consequently readers and research funders lack a convenient and standardised way to assess the quality of peer review undertaken by scholarly journals. In response to this need, STRIATUS/JBJS, publisher of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery and its family of journals and educational offerings,… Read More
HIMSS offers guidance to HHS on Certified EHR Technology - April 29, 2014
In official comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HIMSS provided recommendations in response to ONC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the Voluntary 2015 Edition Electronic Health Record (EHR) Certification Criteria; Interoperability… Read More
OCLC releases WorldCat Works as linked data - April 29, 2014
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has made 197 million bibliographic work descriptions - WorldCat Works - available as linked data, a format native to the Web that will improve discovery of library collections through a variety of popular sites and Web services.… Read More
