New Syracuse University Library website launches with Serials Solutions Summon service - August 3, 2012
Syracuse University Library has launched its new website highlighting the Summon web-scale discovery service from Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business. Librarians expect the search solution to improve access to the library's vast collection. Students and staff will experience simplified discovery of many types of resources across… Read More
EBSCO Publishing and Apabi partner to add Simplified Chinese e-books to EBSCO Discovery Service - August 1, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and Apabi have come to an agreement allowing metadata from Apabi’s e-book collection to be added to the Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The e-books from Apabi are designed to offer a vast collection in a… Read More
Library of Georgia Digital Collection to be indexed via Summon service - July 27, 2012
Serials Solutions, US, has announced that users of its Summon service will soon be able to discover resources in the Digital Library of Georgia's collection that is projected to include a million digital objects in more than 200 collections from 60 institutions and 100 government agencies.… Read More
Persée content now searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service - July 25, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that Persée content is now available via the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Persée is a programme which was created for the digital publication of scientific journals in the field of the humanities. The entire printed collection… Read More
University of Manitoba Libraries selects Ex Libris’ next-generation library management and discovery services - July 24, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the University of Manitoba, a Canadian member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), has selected the Alma unified resource management solution and the Primo discovery and delivery solution. The University of Manitoba Libraries… Read More
Elsevier announces participation in SCOAP3 with journals Physics Letters B and Nuclear Physics B - July 19, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its participation in SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), a new model for open access publishing. Key SCOAP3 principles are perpetual open access, wide re-use licenses, and reduction and re-direction of subscription fees to centrally cover… Read More
