NISO seeks participants for a working group to revise ANSI/NISO Paper Permanence Standard - March 10, 2015
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is seeking participants for a working group to revise the standard Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Libraries and Archives (ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R2009)). This standard establishes criteria for coated and uncoated paper that will last several hundred years… Read More
State Library of Queensland goes live with Ex Libris Alma - March 10, 2015
Library automation services Ex Libris Group has announced that the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) is now live with Ex Libris Alma. An institution with a history of leadership in library technology, SLQ was the first Australian library to implement the Ex Libris Primo discovery and… Read More
Reprints Desk’ Senior Sales Engineer Chris Atwood to present to academic library users of ILLiad and Odyssey software applications at upcoming academic library conference - March 10, 2015
Document delivery supplier Reprints Desk, Inc., a Research Solutions company, has announced that the company's Senior Sales Engineer Chris Atwood will deliver a presentation entitled 'Streamlining Content Acquisition and CONTU Compliance via ILLiad' to attending academic library professionals on March 18, 2015, at the ILLiad International… Read More
De Gruyter partners with Scope to create MARC records from ONIX/Klopotek XML files - March 9, 2015
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced its engagement with De Gruyter, a leading academic publisher headquartered in Berlin, to create MARC records from ONIX or Klopotek XML files. As part of this partnership, Scope… Read More
World’s oldest continuously published journal celebrated its 350th anniversary - March 9, 2015
The world's oldest continuously published journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, celebrated its 350th anniversary on March 6, 2015. A gruesome account of an early blood transfusion in 1666, Isaac Newton's historic paper on light and colour, Dyson and Eddington's paper confirming Einstein's theory… Read More
Reed Tech announces advancement of the innovative semantic search technology used to power LexisNexis TotalPatent research and retrieval service - March 9, 2015
Reed Technology and Information Services Inc. (Reed Tech), a LexisNexis company, has announced the advancement of the innovative semantic search technology used to power the LexisNexis® TotalPatent® research and retrieval service. An evolution in patent research, true semantic search differs fundamentally from traditional keyword or synonym-building… Read More
