EBSCO Information Services named to 2013 EContent 100 list - December 3, 2013
Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services has announced that it has been named to the 2013 EContent 100 List of Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry. Selection of the companies for the EContent 100 List falls to a team of judges including… Read More
Ex Libris announces appointment of Roger Brisson as Strategy Director Europe - December 2, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Germany, has announced that Roger Brisson has been appointed Strategy Director for Ex Libris Europe. As the former head of Metadata Services at Boston University, which has run Ex Libris Alma for the past year, Brisson brings with him… Read More
Elsevier in deal with Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University to expand access to scientific publications - December 2, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has reached an agreement with Russia's Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) to grant access to ScienceDirect's Journal Backfile Collection and e-Book Collection as well as Reaxys® to its researchers. In addition, Elsevier will host two of FEFU's open access journals on ScienceDirect.… Read More
Massachusetts Library System selects Baker & Taylor as ebook platform partner - November 27, 2013
Baker & Taylor, a distributor of digital and physical books, has been selected by the Massachusetts Library System (MLS) to participate in an innovative six-month pilot project designed to expand access to ebooks for the state's multi‑type libraries. This pilot project was conceived by the Massachusetts… Read More
Authors Guild case against Google and its Library Project dismissed - November 26, 2013
On November 14, Judge Denny Chin of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the digitisation of millions of books from research library collections was a fair use and dismissed the Authors Guild case against Google and its Library Project, saying that the project "advances the progress… Read More
Metadata from HBO Knowledge Base to be indexed in Serials Solutions’ Summon Service - November 26, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, is working with HBO Kennisbank to index the results of publicly funded research contained in the institutional repositories of Dutch universities in the Summon service. Metadata from the HBO Knowledge Base will be indexed allowing researchers to discover articles, research reports… Read More
