36,000 Alexander Street streaming videos now available on OASIS platform - September 27, 2018
ProQuest has announced that 36,000 titles from Alexander Street's platform are now available on the OASIS® platform, allowing academic librarians to acquire videos in the same workflow they use to order books. There is a growing demand for varied content, including streaming video, to support… Read More
Cabell Huntington Hospital to implement Wolters Kluwer’s POC Advisor to improve patient safety and sepsis detection - September 26, 2018
Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of trusted clinical technology and evidence-based solutions, has announced that Cabell Huntington Hospital (CHH) has selected POC Advisor™ as their enterprise surveillance solution to rapidly and accurately identify and treat sepsis patients. The not-for-profit, regional hospital in West Virginia chose… Read More
Project MUSE offers nearly 300 ‘HTML5’ open access books on re-designed platform - September 25, 2018
Project MUSE, a provider of digital Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) content, has announced the availability of nearly 300 open access (OA) books on its new re-designed platform. The books will be delivered in a highly-discoverable and adaptable format using user-friendly HTML5, rather than static PDFs,… Read More
Elsevier and the Russian State Public Library for Science and Technology sign National License Agreement for Scopus database - September 25, 2018
Elsevier, the global information analytics business specialising in science and health, and the Russian State Public Library for Science and Technology have signed a National License Agreement (NLA) to provide more than 1,200 research and educational organisations in Russia with access to Elsevier's Scopus database. The… Read More
EBSCO Information Services releases Serials Price Projection Report for 2019 - September 21, 2018
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has released the 2019 Serials Price Projection Report. The report projects that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic medical libraries are expected to be in the range of five to six percent (before currency impact). EBSCO releases the… Read More
JMU Libraries in partnership with ARL receives IMLS national forum grant - September 21, 2018
James Madison University (JMU) Libraries, in partnership with the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), has been awarded $89,000 by the US Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to convene a national forum of experts and stakeholders to… Read More
