The Alberta Library selects OCLC group catalogue as its provincial discovery tool - September 6, 2013
Computer library service OCLC has announced that The Alberta Library (TAL), a consortium of 49 public, university, college, technical institute and special libraries, has selected a group catalogue solution from OCLC as its provincial discovery tool. The revamped union catalogue, TAL Online, makes 25 million items… Read More
Academic libraries across England gain wider access to ProQuest’s ebook collection through EBL and ebrary platforms - September 5, 2013
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that academic libraries across England will now have wider access to ProQuest extensive ebook collection through EBL - Ebook Library (EBL) and ebrary platforms. The Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) has selected both EBL and ebrary as… Read More
Global sales in the medical publishing market fell 2.4 percent in 2012, says Simba report - September 5, 2013
Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has released a report, according to which, global sales in the medical publishing market fell 2.4 percent to $10.1 billion in 2012. The report, Global Medical Publishing 2013-2014, found that the worldwide recession had a broad impact on the… Read More
IHS announces Knowledge Collections - September 4, 2013
IHS, a global source of information and analytics, has announced the introduction of the IHS Knowledge Collections, an expansive set of pre-packaged compilations of engineering-rich documents that address engineers' long-standing requirement for access to the full breadth of technical knowledge they need. IHS Knowledge Collections deliver… Read More
Allegheny College becomes latest member of HathiTrust - September 3, 2013
Allegheny College has become the latest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. Over the last four years, the partners have contributed more… Read More
BioOne announces 2014 Collections - August 30, 2013
BioOne, the global source for leading edge bioscience research, has announced that three new titles and their respective not-for-profit publishers have joined the 2014 BioOne Collections. These include Arachnology, published by the British Arachnological Society; Ardeola, published by the Spanish Society of Ornithology (SEO/Birdlife); and Herzogia,… Read More
