Emerald joins the RNIB Bookshare service - August 1, 2018
Academic publisher Emerald recently joined The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) Bookshare service to provide print-disabled students within UK institutions, with the same educational opportunities as their peers. The RNIB Bookshare service provides institutions with… Read More
Thieme and Science of Synthesis launch ‘Dr. Margaret Faul Award for Women in Chemistry,’ an international scientific award for women in chemistry - August 1, 2018
With their newly created 'Dr. Margaret Faul Award for Women in Chemistry' Georg Thieme Publishers and the synthetic methodology reference work Science of Synthesis will honour young women chemists. The award, which will be issued for the first time next year, comprises 5,000 Euros prize money… Read More
Ex Libris announces enhancements to the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution - August 1, 2018
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced enhancements to the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution that improve the user experience and empower libraries to better meet their users' needs through customisation of the Primo interface. A new enhancement is Primo Studio, an online… Read More
Digital Science and the Ohio Department of Higher Education partner to develop new research expertise portal - August 1, 2018
Research technology company Digital Science has embarked on a project with the Ohio Department of Higher Education to work in partnership with the Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) to highlight Ohio's biomedical and engineering faculty and to showcase Ohio's campus facilities and equipment critical to the innovation… Read More
J-STAGE to preserve e-content with Portico - August 1, 2018
Digital preservation service Portico has announced that J-STAGE will preserve its full digital library with Portico, ensuring that important scholarly resources published in Japan will remain available to researchers in perpetuity. Founded in 1999, J-STAGE is an electronic journal platform developed and managed by the… Read More
King’s College London selects OCLC Sustainable Collection Services to make data-driven decisions about collections - August 1, 2018
Non-profit global library cooperative OCLC has announced that King's College London has selected OCLC Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) to help staff make more data-driven decisions about their print monographs. King's College London comprises six libraries and an off-site storage facility housing 1 million print volumes,… Read More
