London’s Natural History Museum is live with Ex Libris Alma and Primo - May 22, 2015
Library automation services provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the Alma resource management solution and the Primo discovery and delivery solution are live at the Natural History Museum in London. Alma allows museum staff to manage all of the Library's scholarly resources and media types… Read More
The University of Chicago Press: Journals Hosted on new Atypon platform in 2016 - May 22, 2015
Atypon, a provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry and University of Chicago Press, has launched a new online home for the University of Chicago Press's portfolio of nearly 70 journals, using technology developed by Atypon. Chicago's new platform, due for release by… Read More
Holiday Notice - May 22, 2015
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on May 25, 2015 on account of Memorial Day. We will resume our newsletter service on Tuesday, May 26, 2015. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the May 22nd issue. Read More
Text and data mining in the EU: Legal certainty already exists - May 21, 2015
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has noted the desire expressed in the 'Communication on Single Digital Market Strategy for Europe' issued on 6 May 2015 for legal certainty around the use of copyright-protected materials, including across borders, for text mining. STM… Read More
Thomson Reuters releases greenhouse gas emissions data on Global Energy Providers - May 21, 2015
Thomson Reuters has released a new research Global 500 Greenhouse Gas Report: The Fossil Fuel Energy Sector, revealing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data from 32 global energy companies, a key subset of the world's largest publically traded businesses. The report, written in collaboration with global sustainability… Read More
Organisations around the world denounce Elsevier’s new policy that impedes open access and sharing - May 21, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced a new sharing and hosting policy for Elsevier journal articles on April 30, 2015. The policy represents a significant obstacle to the dissemination and use of research knowledge, and creates unnecessary barriers for Elsevier published authors in complying with funders' open… Read More
