Maney Publishing partners with ReadCube to widen reach of its collection - January 30, 2015
Academic publisher Maney Publishing has announced its partnership with Boston-based publishing software company ReadCube. Through ReadCube's Discover service, over 100,000 articles from Maney Publishing will be indexed, with their discoverability bolstered via ReadCube's web, desktop, and mobile reading portals, search engines, and recommendation feeds. … Read More
University of Iowa Libraries select Ex Libris Cloud solutions - January 30, 2015
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the University of Iowa has selected Ex Libris Alma for next-generation resource management services. Alma will replace a number of systems, including the Aleph integrated library system. Having used Aleph for 15 years, Iowa Libraries… Read More
Baker & Taylor’s new Axis 360 app streamlines access to digital content for mobile users - January 30, 2015
Baker & Taylor, the premier worldwide distributor of digital and print books, has announced the launch of its new Axis 360 app for both Apple and Android devices. The Axis 360 app offers mobile users the ability to discover, download and listen to digital audiobooks, as… Read More
Springer assumes control of Autoimmunity Highlights journal, shifts journal to open access - January 29, 2015
STM publisher Springer has assumed control of the journal Autoimmunity Highlights, which was previously owned by A. Menarini Diagnostics, an Italian company. In doing so Springer has also elected to make the journal an open access (OA) publication, which will allow for its published findings to… Read More
Academic institutions worldwide select ProQuest Intota for transformative library management capabilities and industry-leading user experience - January 29, 2015
Academic institutions around the world are selecting the IntotaTM library services platform, a transformational cloud-based service that simplifies two major challenges libraries face today - collection assessment and e-resource management. Released last June, Intota v1 combines industry-leading discovery, linking, collection management and… Read More
SAGE set to publish Health Environments Research & Design journal - January 29, 2015
Academic publisher SAGE will begin publishing Health Environments Research & Design (HERD), a journal that publishes research on the relationships among health and environmental design and organisational, provider, and patient outcomes. HERD publishes evidence-based articles and research papers, opinion papers, theory papers, meta-analysis/metasynthesis, book reviews,… Read More