The IET and EDU&SUN sign agreement to provide IET.tv video content to students and universities across China - August 22, 2012
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced an exclusive deal with EDU&SUN, a leading provider of educational resources in China, to provide IET.tv content to potentially 25 million students at technical universities across the country. This is the first licensing agreement of its kind… Read More
WK Health launches OvidOpenAccess to support the research needs of the global medical community - August 17, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced the release of OvidOpenAccess, a new search discovery feature that integrates thousands of Open Access (OA) resources within the OvidSP platform. OvidSP users can now conduct a single search query to uncover relevant answers to… Read More
Elsevier acquires Atira, deepens SciVal’s ability to help academic institutions manage and improve research outcomes - August 16, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the acquisition of Atira, a provider of software and tools that help academic institutions and researchers manage and improve their research outcomes. Atira complements Elsevier's SciVal by expanding the scope of data to report on research activities across an academic… Read More
Northwestern University joins VIVO network with Elsevier’s SciVal Experts - August 13, 2012
Northwestern University, in collaboration with STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its participation in VIVO, a semantic network that enables the discovery of researchers across institutions. By bringing its researchers together in a single hub called Northwestern Scholars, an implementation of Elsevier's SciVal Experts research networking… Read More
Serials Solutions and National Research Council of Canada in deal to index NRC Publications Archive in the Summon service - August 13, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced an agreement with the National Research Council of Canada to index the NRC Publications Archive in the Summon service to expand access to valuable scientific research information. The web-based archive is an online repository containing more than 50,000 publication… Read More
University library of Skövde selects WorldCat Local - August 10, 2012
OCLC, a US-based non-profit, membership, computer library service and research organisation, has announced that the University library of Skövde has selected WorldCat Local as its new discovery service. University library of Skövde is the first university library in Sweden to use OCLC's integrated solution for discovery… Read More
