OCLC and Sabinet partner to transform resource discovery and delivery in South African libraries - October 31, 2011
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has signed an agreement with Sabinet, its partner in South Africa. The deal is to provide WorldCat Local, OCLC's discovery service, as a single point of access and delivery of electronic, print and digital resources to the National Library of South… Read More
SirsiDynix Symphony ILS enables technological collaboration for Kōtui - October 31, 2011
Library automation solutions provider SirsiDynix, US, has announced the selection of its SirsiDynix Symphony integrated library system as the platform for the new Kōtui shared library system. A shared service for New Zealand public libraries, Kōtui provides an affordable, efficient option to help libraries manage their… Read More
Elsevier and EarthChem implement two-way linking for Earth Sciences content - October 28, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and EarthChem, a portal facilitating discovery and accessibility of a consortium of databases, have implemented two-way linking between their respective Earth Sciences content. Elsevier-published research articles from 32 journals, hosted on SciVerse ScienceDirect will be automatically linked to the corresponding research datasets… Read More
Royal Society announces free access to its journal archive - October 27, 2011
The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, has announced that its historical journal archive has been made permanently free to access online. Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now… Read More
Serials Solutions and JST agreement to enable discovery of J-Stage content from Summon service - October 26, 2011
Serials Solutions, a business unit of US-based ProQuest LLC, has signed an agreement with the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) to enable the discovery of its Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic (J-Stage) content from the Summon web-scale discovery service. With the inclusion of… Read More
HighWire Press and TEMIS announce strategic technology and business partnership - October 26, 2011
HighWire Press, a not-for-profit division of Stanford University Libraries, has announced a strategic technology and business partnership with TEMIS, a provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise. Under the agreement, HighWire will integrate the full suite of Luxid software within… Read More
