SCELC selects ProQuest Intota Assessment for use in Shared Print project to make evidence-based retention decisions - October 10, 2014
Libraries worldwide are transforming their spaces to better align with the changing needs of their communities. The Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) has initiated a collection analysis project to gain insight on collection overlap and usage as a basis for establishing a sustainable shared collections… Read More
Plymouth University collaborates with Vital Source Technologies to launch largest e-textbook programme in the UK - October 10, 2014
Plymouth University has announced a collaboration with Vital Source Technologies, Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, to provide textbooks for their institution-wide digital initiative, which is the largest e-textbook programme ever undertaken in the UK. Plymouth University's e-textbook programme, launched this… Read More
National Library of the Netherlands in deal with OCLC to add four key collections of digitised resources from Dutch-speaking countries to WorldCat - October 10, 2014
The National Library of the Netherlands, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), has entered into an agreement with OCLC to add four important collections of digitised resources from Dutch-speaking countries to WorldCat for discovery of these valuable resources worldwide. The extensive and historically significant… Read More
NIH invests about $32 million to increase utility of biomedical research data - October 10, 2014
The National Institutes of Health recently announced grants to develop new strategies to analyze and leverage the explosion of increasingly complex biomedical data sets, often referred to as Big Data. These NIH multi-institute awards constitute an initial investment of nearly $32 million in fiscal year 2014… Read More
Springer overhauls SpringerMaterials to make the new site more user friendly - October 9, 2014
STM publisher Springer's signature materials database - SpringerMaterials - has got a total overhaul to make the new site more nimble and user friendly. Changes are far more than cosmetic as the entire site has been migrated to the same technology as… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 – Day 2 highlights - October 9, 2014
On the second day of the Frankfurt Book Fair, EDP Open, the Open access arm of EDP Sciences, released the results of a survey to appraise attitudes toward Open Access amongst learned society publishers. The survey was answered by 33 Learned societies and results were further… Read More
