OCLC and Gale expand partnership - January 24, 2013
Library information provider OCLC, US, and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, have agreed to make all Gale databases and archives fully discoverable through WorldCat Local, and to explore broadening discoverability of Gale collections through other applications available through the OCLC WorldShare Platform. OCLC and Gale… Read More
Russian Government selects Scopus for national research assessment - January 23, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Russian government has officially selected Scopus as a tool for its national research assessment. Measuring research performance forms a significant part of Russia's 'Science and Technology Development in 2013-2020' program as declared by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in… Read More
Knovel announces expansion to Yaws’ Critical Property Data for Chemical Engineers and Chemists - January 23, 2013
Knovel, the US-based provider of a web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools, has announced an expansion to Yaws' Critical Property Data for Chemical Engineers and Chemists which Knovel launched in July 2012. The expanded database now includes data on superheated, saturated and… Read More
Ingram adds Random House content to MyiLibrary e-book platform - January 23, 2013
Ingram Content Group, the provider of a range of physical and digital services to the book industry, has announced that it will now offer Random House, Inc. US titles to libraries via the MyiLibrary platform. Random House will add more than 36,000 titles to Ingram's… Read More
IET’s essential engineering intelligence now available to over 1 million researchers and academics in China - January 22, 2013
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Chinese engineering portal EEFOCUS have announced a partnership that will see the IET’s essential engineering intelligence made available to over 1 million researchers and academics throughout China. A sample selection of articles from the IET Digital Library will… Read More
ebrary closes 2012 with more than 100 new publishers signed - January 21, 2013
ebrary, a ProQuest business, is celebrating a pair of significant achievements as 2013 gets underway. This year marks the 10th anniversary of its flagship product, Academic Complete, a scholarly e-book subscription collection, now used in thousands of university libraries worldwide. The anniversary comes as the company… Read More
