Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Montpellier joins Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées to become first French library network to select Ex Libris Alma and Primo - September 21, 2017
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Montpellier (BIU, or Interuniversity Library of Montpellier) has chosen the Ex Libris Alma® library services platform and the Primo® discovery and delivery solution to optimise library management and discovery. Alma and Primo will replace… Read More
eLife and Collaborative Knowledge Foundation partner to deliver open-source submission and peer-review platform - September 21, 2017
eLife and the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko) have announced a partnership to build a user-driven, open-source submission and peer-review platform. eLife aims to help scientists accelerate discovery by operating a platform for research communication that encourages and recognises the most responsible behaviours in science. The… Read More
PLA, ALA and OCLC partnership support renewed ‘From Awareness to Funding’ advocacy study - September 21, 2017
The Public Library Association (PLA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), the ALA Office for Library Advocacy, and OCLC have announced a partnership to produce an update to OCLC's 2008 report, 'From Awareness to Funding: A Study of Library Support in America,' which explored… Read More
Emerald Publishing names eminent economist team to edit new journal, The Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership - September 21, 2017
Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has announced that the newly launched Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership (JPEO) will be edited by Richard B. Freeman, holder of the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University, and, Takao Kato, W.S. Schupf Professor of Economics and Far Eastern… Read More
The Society of Scholarly Publishing becomes London Info International 2017 Association supporter - September 20, 2017
London Info International has announced that the Society of Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is to be an Association supporter. Current SSP members will be entitled to special discounts to attend the LII conference. SSP joins LII's growing list of supporters including SLA… Read More
SAGE Publishing launches online data science courses for social scientists - September 20, 2017
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has launched SAGE Campus, a new series of online data science courses, to support social science researchers and equip them with a range of new skills to embrace the data revolution. In 2016, SAGE and the University of Essex conducted a… Read More
