Rollins College opts for Ex Libris Alma and Primo - October 24, 2014
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that Rollins College, a historic private liberal arts institution in Florida, has opted for the Ex Libris Alma unified resource management solution and the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution. Until now, Rollins has been… Read More
Sven Fund leaves De Gruyter - October 24, 2014
Academic publisher De Gruyter is reorganising its management board. In the future, the management board will consist of just two managing directors. As part of this change, Dr. Sven Fund will depart from the company. The two remaining managing directors, Dr. Anke Beck and Carsten… Read More
Elsevier launches first virtualized medical institution on PracticeUpdate - October 23, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier recently announced the launch of the first virtual Center of Excellence focused on a single disease, renal cell carcinoma. The knowledge-sharing site for physicians was created by PracticeUpdate, Elsevier's physician portal, in partnership with The West Cancer Center at the University of Tennessee.… Read More
Springer and Baden-Wuerttemberg Consortium sign agreement for access to 1,917 Springer e- journals - October 23, 2014
Starting January 2015, researchers, faculty members and students affiliated with colleges and universities in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg will have convenient access to 1,917 electronic journals published by Springer. The license will continue through the end of 2017. Furthermore, the state has purchased permanent… Read More
Kudos and Thomson Reuters partner to add citation data to author dashboards - October 23, 2014
Kudos, which helps researchers and institutions maximise the impact and visibility of their publications, has announced a partnership with Thomson Reuters through which Kudos author dashboards will be augmented with citation data from Web of Science, the premier web-based platform for scientific search and discovery and… Read More
Nature Publishing Group joins OASPA - October 23, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), a trade association which represents the interests of open access publishers in all academic disciplines. NPG publishes 73 journals with an open access option, and 38 percent of the research… Read More
