National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences selects Summon service to support research information retrieval - February 16, 2015
The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC) has selected the Summon service to better support the patrons of Chinese Academy of Sciences with an integrated resource discovery platform. This integrated resource platform has been built in NSLC, which used the Summon service… Read More
Medical journals close their eyes when publishing research ruled fraudulent or misleading by FDA - February 16, 2015
Professional journals touting the latest developments in medicine have often ignored serious problems raised by federal health regulators with the research in question, according to a study. Charles Seife, a New York University journalism professor and the study’s author, reviewed 78 published papers on clinical trials with which the… Read More
National Agricultural Library and ASERL partner to archive 875 research journals - February 13, 2015
The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) has announced that the National Agricultural Library (NAL) has become ASERL's first-ever Program Affiliate. Through this agreement, NAL will partner with ASERL libraries to retain important agriculture-related print journals as part of ASERL's 'Scholars Trust' program, and NAL will… Read More
ARL announces accessibility webinar to foster library-publisher collaboration on inclusive learning resources - February 13, 2015
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a free webinar to raise awareness about the value of producing or procuring accessible born-digital resources to support library users of all abilities. The webinar, 'Working Together: Research Libraries and Publishers on the Value of Inclusive Learning Resources,'… Read More
EBSCO Discovery Service helps Universidade do Porto in Portugal increase usage of library resources - February 13, 2015
Universidade do Porto, the largest university in Portugal, has found great success with the implementation of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). The university purchased EDS in 2011 after looking at several different services. The university library found that EDS offered the best… Read More
ProQuest transforms research with digitization of rare, historical works from Bibliothèque nationale de France - February 13, 2015
Researchers can now explore early European history and culture as it happened with ProQuest's release of the first 2 million pages in its massive digitization project with Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) in Paris. When complete, the project will give researchers cover to cover access to… Read More
