The American Library Association to preserve Library Resources & Technical Services with Portico - February 4, 2014
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that the American Library Association will be preserving the e-journal Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS), the research journal of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), with Portico. This will ensure that these… Read More
ProQuest and OCLC continue collaboration to offer improved discovery, access to popular full-text content - February 4, 2014
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that more than 320 million records from 88 collections in the ProQuest Central database are now discoverable, and the full text associated with those records is now accessible to mutual subscribers through OCLC WorldCat Discovery Services. … Read More
McGraw-Hill Education to acquire Engrade - February 4, 2014
Digital learning company McGraw-Hill Education, US, has agreed to acquire Engrade, the developer of an open digital platform for K-12 education that unifies the data, curriculum and tools that educators use every day to drive student achievement and inform district educational strategy. The move enables McGraw-Hill… Read More
Registration for OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting now open - February 3, 2014
Library information provider OCLC Research has announced that registration is now open for the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting, scheduled for June 10-12, 2014 in Amsterdam. Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners, Libraries & Research: Supporting Change/Changing Support will take place at the DoubleTree by… Read More
ARL hosts MLIS Students in Leadership Symposium at ALA Midwinter Meeting - February 3, 2014
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) hosted its 10th Annual Leadership Symposium for master of library and information science (MLIS) students participating in ARL diversity recruitment programs during the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 23–26. The ARL Leadership Symposium curriculum focuses… Read More
California Digital Library and Elsevier renew contract for next 5 years - February 3, 2014
The California Digital Library (CDL) has announced that it has completed a favourable negotiation with STM publisher Elsevier to renew the ScienceDirect journals for 2014-2018. ScienceDirect is the largest journals package for co-investment by the UC libraries with over 1200 titles.… Read More
