Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation collaborates with Elsevier to gain access to ScienceDirect and Scopus - February 6, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its collaboration with Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM), providing ROSATOM's major affiliated research organisations with access to Elsevier's ScienceDirect and Scopus. ROSATOM unites a number of Russia's key enterprises focusing on atomic power engineering, nuclear and radiation safety… Read More
Serials Solutions to index SciELO e-book collection in Summon discovery service - February 1, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that it is working with Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) to index its e-book collection in the Summon discovery service. SciELO's objective is to maximize the use, visibility, accessibility and impact of the work of Latin American scholars. With… Read More
WALDO selects Books at JSTOR programme for demand-driven acquisition model - January 31, 2013
JSTOR and WALDO (the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organisation) have announced an agreement that enables WALDO member libraries to participate in the Books at JSTOR through both outright book purchases as well as a demand-driven acquisition (DDA) programme. WALDO - the membership organisation that counts… Read More
Swiss library BiG opts for Ex Libris’ Primo and Alma solutions - January 29, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the Bibliothek am Guisanplatz (BiG) in Switzerland has adopted its Primo discovery and delivery solution and the next-generation Alma resource management service. BiG, the leading library of the Alexandria Library Network, reportedly required an integrated framework… Read More
Ex Libris launches self-registration service, expands support for OA - January 28, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has launched a self-registration service enabling institutions to easily add the contents of their institutional repository (IR) to the Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic materials and thus expand the breadth of IR content in the index. Institutional… Read More
Serials Solutions unveils Spotlighting service for dynamic display options - January 25, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has introduced a new feature in its Summon discovery service, named Summon Spotlighting, which provides dynamic display options for specialised content types. Image Spotlighting is said to dramatically improve the discoverability of libraries' most unique and valued collections. Libraries are expected… Read More
