IMLS, Sloan Foundation jointly award ARL $1 million grant to develop and launch SHARE Notification Service - March 31, 2014
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has been awarded a joint $1 million grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop and launch the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) Notification Service. SHARE is a collaborative initiative… Read More
NetAdvance and OCLC to add metadata from JapanKnowledge and JK Books collections to WorldCat - March 31, 2014
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, and NetAdvance are working together to add metadata from the JapanKnowledge and JK Books collections to WorldCat. WorldCat claims to be the world's most comprehensive online catalogue of library resources, increasing discovery and access to these rich… Read More
Scopus launches Cited References Expansion Program for archival content - March 28, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Scopus has launched its Cited References Expansion Program to include cited references in its database going back to 1970 for pre-1996 content. In addition to increasing the depth of Scopus' scholarly content, including cited references for pre-1996 content will… Read More
Spain’s Health Ministry launches UpToDate clinical decision support for doctors nationwide - March 28, 2014
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that Spain's Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality has launched UpToDate, providing more than 260,000 healthcare professionals in the Sistema Nacional de Salud (SNS), Spain's national health system, with access to its clinical decision support resource.… Read More
Document delivery performance bolstered with Reprints Desk’s completed CrossRef digital object identifier project - March 28, 2014
Reprints Desk, Inc. has announced the completion of an information systems and technology project for assimilating more than 40 million digital object identifiers (DOIs) from CrossRef Metadata Services into the content transaction engine that powers the company's Article Galaxy document delivery management system. CrossRef assigns… Read More
Ten institutions from the Netherlands and Switzerland join Portico - March 28, 2014
Portico, a digital preservation service for electronic journals, books, and digitized historical collections, has announced that members of Netherland's SURFmarket and Switzerland's Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries have joined Portico. With the addition of these institutions, more than half of Portico's library participants are now located… Read More
