OCLC extends Digby mobile app to libraries worldwide - February 22, 2018
OCLC is extending its Digby mobile app to libraries worldwide, offering student library workers, volunteers and staff greater efficiency, accuracy and independence working with WorldShare Management Services. The move follows a successful launch in the United States. As a suite of web-based applications, WorldShare Management… Read More
Atypon’s Artificial Intelligence R&D awarded four BioASQ Awards in semantic technology categories - February 22, 2018
Atypon has been placed in the widely respected International BioASQ Awards competition for the fifth year in a row. Atypon's ongoing research and development (R&D) into artificial intelligence technologies led to four awards for four different semantic technology categories in the 2017 BioASQ Challenge. BioASQ… Read More
Elsevier and Hypothesis collaborate to integrate open annotation - February 21, 2018
Elsevier, an information analytics business specialising in science and health, and Hypothesis have announced a collaboration to align annotation capabilities in Elsevier's Research Products with the emerging ecosystem of interoperable clients and services for annotation based on open standards and technologies. Hypothesis is a non-profit dedicated… Read More
The 17th Annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences announced - February 21, 2018
The Wiley Foundation has announced that the seventeenth annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences will be awarded to Lynne E. Maquat for elucidating the mechanism of nonsense-mediated messenger RNA decay, a fundamental process whereby cells remove defective transcripts that can encode toxic proteins. Dr. Maquat… Read More
American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science launches its journal on HighWire’s BenchPress and JCore - February 21, 2018
The American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) has launched its flagship journal, Clinical Laboratory Science, on HighWire's JCore content delivery platform and BenchPress manuscript system. BenchPress and JCore are components of HighWire's Intelligent Platform, a next-generation solution for publishing that… Read More
University of Bristol selects OCLC WorldShare Management Services - February 21, 2018
The University of Bristol, ranked among the top universities in the world, has selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services as its new cloud-based library services platform. The university selected WorldShare Management Services (WMS) because it provides everything needed to manage a leading research library with world-class collections.… Read More
