Alma Open Platform reaches one million API transactions daily - June 24, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that its Alma library management service now routinely handles over one million API transactions daily from hundreds of institutions around the world. Over the last two years, Ex Libris has created more than 120 Alma REST APIs in… Read More
EBSCO Discovery Service and EBSCOhost users can now visualize altmetrics from Plum Analytics - June 24, 2016
EBSCO Information Services has announced that the overall research experience for users of EBSCO Discovery Service™ and EBSCOhost® databases is improving with the addition of altmetrics data from Plum™ Analytics, an EBSCO company. By integrating the Plum Print widget into these platforms, users will have a… Read More
ProQuest expands number of titles available through Access-to-Own to almost 400,000 titles - June 24, 2016
ProQuest has announced that it has grown the number of titles available through Access-to-Own to almost 400,000 and dramatically increased publisher participation in just eight months with its latest acquisition model launching next month. ProQuest developed Access-to-Own in collaboration with libraries and publishers around the world… Read More
American Physical Society appoints Prof. Pierre Meystre as new Editor-in-Chief - June 24, 2016
The Board of Directors of the American Physical Society (APS) has unanimously approved the appointment, put forward by APS CEO Kate Kirby, of Pierre Meystre as Editor in Chief of the Physical Review journals. Meystre is currently Regents Professor of Physics and Optical Sciences at… Read More
Knowledge Unlatched and University of Michigan Library collaborate to advance open access - June 24, 2016
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), a not-for- profit company based in England, and University of Michigan Library (U-M Library), a major research library based in Michigan, have announced that they will collaborate to study and overcome remaining obstacles to the spread of open access scholarly publishing in the… Read More
Wiley ChemPlanner awarded Best of Show at BIO-IT World Conference & Expo - June 23, 2016
Wiley ChemPlanner was awarded 'Best of Show' for the Research & Clinical Data Management category at the BIO-IT World Conference & Expo 2016. Judged by leading industry experts and BIO-IT World editors, the award distinguishes Wiley ChemPlanner as an exceptional innovation in technologies used by life science professionals at present.… Read More
