Infotrieve and LM Information Delivery partner to expand reach of Mobile Library throughout Northern Europe - June 25, 2014
Infotrieve, Inc. and LM Information Delivery, a Northern European subscription and information services provider, have entered into a sales agreement to expand the reach of Infotrieve's enterprise e-content access and management solution, Mobile Library to the Northern European territories of Belgium, Denmark,… Read More
M.E. Sharpe to discontinue Sharpe-Online Reference, partners with EBSCO to assure perpetual access - June 25, 2014
M.E. Sharpe, the publisher of Sharpe Reference titles, has decided to discontinue Sharpe-Online Reference (SOLR) and has partnered with EBSCO Information Services to ensure that customers maintain perpetual access to the titles they have purchased. SOLR customers have been given unlimited simultaneous… Read More
University of Central Oklahoma opts for Ex Libris Alma - June 25, 2014
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the Chambers Library of the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) has selected the Ex Libris Alma resource management solution. At the same time, UCO will migrate its Primo discovery solution to the Ex Libris cloud environment.… Read More
Elsevier announces inclusion of a Simplified Chinese user interface to Scopus - June 24, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a Simplified Chinese user interface to Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. The interface enables Chinese users to search and discover scientific literature in their local language. In addition to the localised interface,… Read More
PlumX to include usage statistics from EBSCO databases - June 24, 2014
Metrics from Plum Analytics will now include usage statistics for articles and books that are available from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) databases and EBSCO Discovery Service. The article-level data from these databases will allow Plum Analytics' product PlumX to provide usage statistics on articles and books… Read More
Comparable academic institutions pay different prices for journal access, says PNAS report - June 23, 2014
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) recently published an analysis, according to which, comparable academic institutions pay different prices for journal access. A report published in ScienceInsider states that some universities are paying… Read More
