Catalogue enrichment from Syndetics Unbound service now available to Apollo ILS customers - December 5, 2019
Public libraries who use Apollo, an integrated library system (ILS) from Biblionix that automates circulation management and collection management, now have a new way to improve the discovery experience for their patrons. The Syndetics Unbound catalogue enrichment service, designed to transform a… Read More
AAU, ARL, and AUPresses launch OpenMonographs.org in an effort to change the landscape of scholarly book publishing in the humanities and social sciences - December 5, 2019
The Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of University Presses (AUPresses) have launched a new website, OpenMonographs.org, in a bold new effort to change the landscape of scholarly book publishing in the humanities and social sciences.… Read More
IARLA signs open letter calling for expedition to COUNTER Release 5 - December 5, 2019
The International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA) has announced that its members, alongside a number of international academic library organisations, have signed an open letter calling for the expedition to Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice. Release 5… Read More
Institute for Scientific Information releases new global research report examining impact of multi-authorship on citations - December 4, 2019
A new report released by the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate Analytics identifies a growing number of research articles in the Web of Science with 1,000 or more unique authors across more than 100 different countries. Multi-authorship and research analytics examines… Read More
Springer Nature Group CEO Vrancken Peeters completes Executive Team - December 4, 2019
Springer Nature Group Chief Executive Officer Frank Vrancken Peeters has announced two new appointments, completing the line-up of his Executive Team. Charlotte Liu returns to Springer Nature, as Chief Commercial Officer, following three years at global auction house Christie’s. Liu previously headed Springer Nature’s China… Read More
IEEE announces retractions from IEEE Xplore® digital library - December 4, 2019
Technical professional organisation IEEE has announced that it is retracting 30 articles that were published in the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility from 2016 to 2018 and 19 articles from the 2018 International Conference on Computing and Network Communications ("CoCoNet") due to violations of IEEE's peer-review… Read More
