Stephen Barr named President of The Publishers Association - May 19, 2016
Stephen Barr, President of SAGE International, has been elected as the new President of The Publishers Association. Stephen succeeds Joanna Prior, Managing Director of Penguin General Books, who remains as an officer on PA Council. The PA's AGM, which took place on May 18, 2016… Read More
University of Deusto Library becomes the first in Spain to select Ex Libris Alma - May 19, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the University of Deusto will be replacing its AMICUS library management system with Ex Libris Alma® and will migrate from an on-premises discovery system to a SaaS implementation of the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution. Students,… Read More
HARRASSOWITZ now accepting applications for the 2016 Charleston Conference Scholarship - May 19, 2016
International booksellers and subscription agents HARRASSOWITZ is once again offering a $1,000 scholarship to attend the Annual Charleston Conference that takes place November 2-5, 2016, in Charleston, SC. The scholarship is to be awarded to a librarian or paraprofessional who is currently working in a library… Read More
Bioedit opts for Editorial Manager Ingest Service - May 19, 2016
Aries Systems, a workflow solutions provider for scholarly publishers, has announced that UK based English language writing and editing service Bioedit has adopted Editorial Manager Ingest Service. This partnership means that the authors using Bioedit's personalised pre-publication editing services can submit files and metadata associated… Read More
White Rose Libraries in the UK select OCLC Sustainable Collection Services for collaborative print management - May 19, 2016
The White Rose Libraries, a long-standing collaboration among the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York, have selected OCLC Sustainable Collection Services to assist in developing a regional shared-print collection. The White Rose Libraries (WRL) will work with Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) to make informed group-level… Read More
Scope in deal with Springer Nature to provide thesaurus development and maintenance services - May 18, 2016
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced a partnership with Springer Nature, one of the leading global publishing companies. Under the terms of the agreement, Scope's team of Subject Matter Experts… Read More
