Ex Libris launches new Customer Knowledge Center, provides a unified repository for all Ex Libris resources - December 18, 2015
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest® company and a global provider of cloud‑based solutions for higher education, has launched a new Customer Knowledge Center to provide a single gateway to all Ex Libris knowledge resources. The site will contain articles on a large variety… Read More
ProQuest introduces Summon-SIPX Reading List Module to make education better and more affordable - December 17, 2015
ProQuest has introduced the Summon-SIPX Reading List Module in a move to make education better and more affordable. This new, innovative and cost-saving system integrates the Summon® discovery service and SIPX® course materials solution to encourage use of library holdings to help students and schools save… Read More
SAGE and Expert System release SAGE Recommends, allows semantic exploration of scholarly content across diverse formats and disciplines - December 16, 2015
Academic publisher SAGE and Expert System have announced the release of SAGE Recommends, a new discovery capability within the SAGE Knowledge platform that provides users with links to related SAGE content to support academic research. Powered by Luxid® software, the feature uses… Read More
80 million German documents from BASE now accessible to EDS researchers - December 8, 2015
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Bielefeld University in Germany have announced a partnership as a result of which more than 80 million documents from more than 3,800 sources are now searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). The agreement enables Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), a multidisciplinary… Read More
Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo for a Canton-wide Network - December 3, 2015
Ex Libris® Group, a global provider of cloud‑based solutions for higher education, has announced that the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne (Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire – BCU Lausanne) has chosen the Alma® library management service and Primo® unified resource discovery and delivery solution to create… Read More
Altmetric adds ORCID search functionality - December 1, 2015
Altmetric has released a new functionality enabling users to search the entire Altmetric database, which contains attention data for over 4 million research outputs, by ORCID iD - making it easy for researchers, publishers, librarians and other users to uncover the online… Read More