HighWire renews consortia sales support agreement with Dragonfly - February 1, 2013
HighWire, a division of Stanford University, has renewed its consortia sales support agreement with Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting. The aim is to renew their commitment to support scholarly publishers in their efforts to reach library consortia in accessing a collection of high-impact life science content… Read More
PennWell appoints Paul Andrews to lead new Marketing Services Division - February 1, 2013
B2B publisher PennWell Corporation, US, has announced that it has hired Paul Andrews as Vice President, Marketing Services, effective February 1. Andrews, who will remain based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, will lead PennWell's newly-formed Marketing Services Division, a stand-alone unit of the Company created… Read More
Credo named 2013 SIIA Content CODiE Award winner - February 1, 2013
Credo, a provider of information and digital literacy solutions for libraries, has announced that Literati Public was named a winner for the 2013 SIIA CODiE Awards for Best General Reference Service. Winners represent the information industry's best products, technologies and services created by or for media,… Read More
WALDO selects Books at JSTOR programme for demand-driven acquisition model - January 31, 2013
JSTOR and WALDO (the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organisation) have announced an agreement that enables WALDO member libraries to participate in the Books at JSTOR through both outright book purchases as well as a demand-driven acquisition (DDA) programme. WALDO - the membership organisation that counts… Read More
JISC funds facilitates open access to 6,500 digitised museum objects - January 30, 2013
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that it has funded a project to make 6,500 newly digitised objects from University College London and the University of Reading's diverse museum collections openly accessible to students, teachers and the public at large. The objects include… Read More
Elsevier launches new journal – Anthropocene - January 30, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new journal, Anthropocene. As a quarterly journal Anthropocene will publish research focusing on the effect of human activity on landscapes, oceans, the atmosphere, cryosphere, and ecosystems. Effects are measured over a range of time and space… Read More
