Atypon Systems acquires Metapress from EBSCO Online, Inc. - April 15, 2014
Atypon Systems, Inc. and EBSCO Online, Inc. have announced that Atypon has acquired the Metapress business from EBSCO Online, Inc., which has made the decision to discontinue the Metapress platform. Atypon and EBSCO will work together to transition Metapress clients to Atypon's… Read More
ebrary partners with Wolters Kluwer for Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ebooks - April 11, 2014
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest and Wolters Kluwer are teaming up to make more than 1,000 critical medical titles available on the ebrary platform through subscription (including the award-winning Academic Complete™), patron-driven acquisition (PDA), and perpetual purchase. The Lippincott titles available… Read More
Thomson IP Manager conforms to internationally recognized security standards - April 10, 2014
The Intellectual Property (IP) & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced that its Thomson IP Manager Cloud and Jumpstart Editions are hosted at its secure data hosting facility in the European Union (EU). The three Editions of Thomson IP Manager, including the locally installed Enterprise… Read More
NISO publishes revised recommendations for Knowledge Bases and Related Tools - April 10, 2014
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of a revision to the Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) Recommended Practice (NISO RP-9-2014). The original recommended practice, issued in 2010, provided all parties in the information supply chain with straightforward guidance about metadata formatting… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health announces Lippincott Advisor mobile app for hospitals and healthcare institutions - April 9, 2014
Information and point-of-care solutions provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced the availability of a Lippincott Advisor App for institutional customers who use Lippincott Advisor, one of the leading online clinical decision-support software solutions used at the point-of-care. The new mobile application allows hospitals and other healthcare… Read More
Fair use promoted at House of Representatives copyright hearing - April 9, 2014
James G. Neal, Columbia University's university librarian and vice president for information services, served as the voice of libraries to the US House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet on April 2, 2014, when the subcommittee held a hearing on preserving and reusing copyrighted work.… Read More
