Boopsie partners with SOLS to offer mobile solution to member libraries - September 7, 2016
Mobile platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider Boopsie has partnered with Southern Ontario Library Service (SOLS) to offer a mobile solution to member libraries. SOLS members interested in offering users a single convenient access point to their library's resources anytime, anywhere and from any mobile… Read More
Wellcome initiates open access requirements for publishers - September 6, 2016
Wellcome has published a set of requirements for open access publications, which will come into force next spring. The policy outlines what is required of publishers in order to receive article processing charges (APCs) from the charity. These include uploading articles to PubMed Central (PMC), making… Read More
ARL appoints Catherine Davidson as visiting program officer for scholarly communication initiatives - September 6, 2016
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has named Catherine Davidson as a visiting program officer (VPO) for scholarly communication initiatives from September 2016 through June 2017. Davidson, a 2009–2010 graduate of the ARL Leadership Fellows program, is the associate university librarian (AUL) for collections and research… Read More
Altmetric tracks data from Open Syllabus Project - September 6, 2016
Altmetric has announced that it has begun to track data from the Open Syllabus Project (OSP), which details where individual books are included in the syllabi of over 4,000 academic institutions around the world. For the first time, these unique data are combined with other altmetric… Read More
University of Alabama at Birmingham selects Ex Libris campusM as its mobile platform - September 6, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has selected the Ex Libris campusM Enterprise platform to provide UAB students, faculty, and staff with easy access to key systems, such as the university's Banner ERP solution, library services, and… Read More
Knowledge E implements plagiarism screening via Crossref Similarity Check - September 6, 2016
Information resources and software solutions provider Knowledge E has joined the Crossref Similarity Check initiative by which all submitted journal articles and conference papers are subjected to comparison with previously published articles in thousands of publications from all over the world. … Read More
