Springer begins 2014 with two major accomplishments - January 23, 2014
Springer started 2014 by announcing two major accomplishments. The publisher completed its Springer Book Archives (SBA), a four-year project to digitise nearly every book it had published from the 1840s to 2004. While the company originally anticipated that around 100,000 books would be part of this… Read More
OCLC unveils WorldCat Discovery Services - January 23, 2014
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has announced the launch of WorldCat Discovery Services, a new suite of cloud-based applications that brings together the FirstSearch and WorldCat Local services. Set to launch in March, the new suite will enable discovery of more than… Read More
Springer expands open access activities in South Korea, in deal for two new SpringerOpen journals with Korean partners - January 22, 2014
STM publisher Springer is intensifying its open access activities in South Korea by signing agreements for two new SpringerOpen journals with the Korean Geotechnical Society (KGS) and the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles (KSCT). Starting in January 2014, both research societies will start publishing their… Read More
Ovid to be exclusive site license partner for current and archival NEJM content in China - January 22, 2014
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has extended its global distribution agreement with the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM.org), a publisher of breakthrough biomedical research and best practices in clinical medicine, to be the exclusive provider of NEJM site licenses… Read More
CABI selects TEMIS’s Luxid to enhance content, boost audience engagement and strategically expand its product line - January 22, 2014
TEMIS, a provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, has signed a strategic agreement with CABI, an inter-governmental, not-for-profit organisation providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. CABI has scientific research, international… Read More
Buffalo State, the State University of New York (SUNY) to continue to use Summon discovery service and 360 Link - January 17, 2014
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that Buffalo State, the largest campus in the State University of New York (SUNY) system, will continue to use the Summon discovery service and 360 Link to honour the library’s dedication to proactive and innovative support for research and… Read More
