EBSCO temporarily opens access to valuable education research database during government shutdown - October 4, 2013
Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that it is making the government database ERIC available during the government shutdown. ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, is typically available through the government website (http://eric.ed.gov/) as well as via EBSCO's EBSCOhost… Read More
IHS adds Industrial Press to growing list of premium Scientific and Technical publishing partners - October 4, 2013
IHS, the global source of information and analytics, has announced a new partnership with Industrial Press, publisher of leading technical books for engineering, technology, manufacturing and education. This partnership, which follows previous announcements regarding strategic partnerships with John Wiley & Sons, Maney Publishing, and Springer Science+Business… Read More
W3C Workshop Report: Publishing and the Open Web Platform - October 4, 2013
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published the final report of the 'Workshop on the Publishing and the Open Web Platform' that was held September 16-17, 2013, in Paris. The W3C Workshop in Paris was the third in a series of industry consultation events… Read More
Scope completes taxonomy development assignment for Elsevier Health Sciences - October 3, 2013
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, publisher of Knowledgespeak, and a Quatrro Global Services company, has completed an assignment for Elsevier Health Sciences (Elsevier) to develop a taxonomy for PracticeUpdate, an e-portal that offers an array of professional research,… Read More
Serials Solutions to index Turkish e-book database Hiperkitap in the Summon discovery service - October 3, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, is working with Hiperlink Egitim Iletisim to index the first and only Turkish e-book database Hiperkitap, in the Summon discovery service. With the inclusion of full text and accompanying metadata in the Summon index, researchers will now be able to discover… Read More
Ex Libris’ Primo Central Index to cover Russian-language content from BIBCOM Central Collector of Libraries - October 3, 2013
Library technology solutions provider Ex Libris Group has signed an agreement with BIBCOM Central Collector of Libraries, a principal aggregator of Russian scholarly content, to include its extensive collections in the Primo Central Index. Offered as a cloud-based service to institutions around the globe, the… Read More
