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
Elsevier acquires the Social Science Research Network - May 18, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the acquisition of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Founded in 1994, SSRN is a Rochester, NY-based scholarly research preprint repository and online community. SSRN will be further developed alongside Mendeley, a London-based free reference manager and… Read More
Cross-industry coalition forges to collaborate on solutions to protect against predatory publishing and irresponsible author support practices - May 18, 2016
The Coalition for Responsible Publication Resources is one step closer to its mission to help preserve the integrity of the scholarly literature by sharing industry knowledge of irresponsible and in some cases predatory practices associated with academic publishing. The Coalition is also committed to ensuring transparency,… Read More
Association of Research Libraries seeks proposals for SPEC Survey Topics 2017 - May 18, 2016
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is seeking proposals for 2017 SPEC survey topics. For more than 40 years ARL has gathered and disseminated data through the SPEC survey program to assist libraries in the continuous improvement of their management systems. Each year, ARL works with… Read More
Clinical trials data now linkable with publications - May 18, 2016
A group of publishers have announced a development to uniquely identify each clinical trial and easily link to related publications for the first time. This will make it easier for health professionals to obtain all the necessary information relating to a clinical trial for their patients, and to ensure transparency… Read More
