National Library of Russia goes live with Ex Libris Primo and Aleph integrated library system - January 24, 2014
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the National Library of Russia (NLR) has gone live with the Ex Libris Primo discovery and delivery solution and the Ex Libris Aleph integrated library system, which replace their locally developed system. In a move that… Read More
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to preserve with CLOCKSS Archive - January 24, 2014
The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to preserve the preprint server for the life sciences BioRχiv and the ejournals of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries… Read More
American Chemical Society implements CCC’s RightsLink for Open Access solution - January 23, 2014
Global licensing and content solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced that the world's largest scientific society, the American Chemical Society (ACS), has selected CCC's RightsLink® for Open Access to manage Article Processing Charges (APCs) for its Open Access publications.… Read More
Springer begins 2014 with two major accomplishments - January 23, 2014
Springer started 2014 by announcing two major accomplishments. The publisher completed its Springer Book Archives (SBA), a four-year project to digitise nearly every book it had published from the 1840s to 2004. While the company originally anticipated that around 100,000 books would be part of this… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health and Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses collaborate on Lippincott decision-support solutions - January 23, 2014
Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced a collaboration with the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN) to review the core medical-surgical procedures in the Lippincott Procedures software application, one of the leading online procedure solutions for… Read More
OCLC unveils WorldCat Discovery Services - January 23, 2014
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has announced the launch of WorldCat Discovery Services, a new suite of cloud-based applications that brings together the FirstSearch and WorldCat Local services. Set to launch in March, the new suite will enable discovery of more than… Read More