ACS partners with University of Campinas in first OA agreement in Latin America - June 10, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced the signing of a landmark agreement with the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil. This agreement is the first of its kind that ACS has signed in Latin America and represents a monumental step for… Read More
EBSCO Information Services develops features to improve usage reporting - June 10, 2020
EBSCO Information Services’ (EBSCO) Usage ConsolidationTM service now supports COUNTER R5 providing comparison tools and new ways for librarians to analyse and manage usage reporting. EBSCO Usage Consolidation’s COUNTER R5 support includes features that transform previously loaded R4 usage into corresponding R5 metrics to allow… Read More
O’Reilly for Higher Education now available for all UC campuses - June 10, 2020
O’Reilly for Higher Education (OHE) is now available for all UC campuses on O’Reilly’s new platform: http://uclibs.org/PID/432785. OHE contains close to 48,000 titles of technical eBooks, videos, interactive tutorials, case studies, learning paths and audio books from O’Reilly & Associates, including selective titles from over… Read More
Accomplished journalist and senior digital content executive Leah Gentry joins WebMD as Group VP, Content - June 10, 2020
WebMD has announced that accomplished journalist and senior digital content executive Leah Gentry has joined the organisation as Group Vice President, Content. Gentry joins WebMD with rich experience in digital strategy and audience engagement. Her career spans Fortune 50 companies and startups across media, communications… Read More
HighWire implements industry-leading disaster recovery scheme to enable full platform functionality - June 10, 2020
Scholarly publishing technology provider HighWire is implementing a new industry-leading data recovery centre which is designed to enable full platform functionality and data to be restored within a matter of hours, potentially minutes. The new recovery service will be deployed to all HighWire customers commencing… Read More
NIH launches preprint pilot to test NIH-funded research searchable preprints - June 10, 2020
The National Institutes of Health is launching the first phase of a pilot project designed to test the viability of making preprints resulting from NIH-funded research searchable in PubMed Central (PMC), a widely-used digital archive of full-text articles and, by extension, discoverable… Read More
