Vital Source and Metrodigi collaborate to enable production of interactive content - October 2, 2014
Vital Source Technologies, Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, and Metrodigi®, a cloud-based content creation software company, have announced a collaboration at the EDUCAUSE 2014. This collaboration provides educational publishers with a powerful end-to-end solution for the production and distribution of customisable, interactive digital products. As… Read More
Saint Peter’s University selects integrated suite of ProQuest discovery services to meet research needs of its library users - October 2, 2014
ProQuest has announced that Saint Peter’s University will meet the research needs and expectations of its library users with an integrated suite of ProQuest discovery services – the Summon® discovery service, the 360 Link link resolver and Syndetic Solutions™. The addition of these services at Saint… Read More
OCLC introduces WorldCat Discovery API beta, offers libraries access to WorldCat and a central index representing aggregated e-resource collections - October 2, 2014
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has announced the beta availability of the new WorldCat Discovery API, which provides access for libraries to search and find resources in both WorldCat and a central index of article and e-book metadata that represent the wide… Read More
De Gruyter offers access to all of its scholarly content to top Wikipedia editors - October 2, 2014
Academic publisher De Gruyter will give access to all of its scholarly content to 1.000 highly active Wikipedia editors and will allow them to use it for their encyclopedia research. The editors are offered the opportunity to read ebooks, journals and database entries on De Gruyter… Read More
Wellcome Trust launches charity fund to support open access research publications - October 1, 2014
Six medical research charities recently launched the Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) to cover open access, article-processing charges. Robert Kiley is Head of Digital Services at the Wellcome Library and is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Trust's open access policy.… Read More
LIBER calls on European Commission to take measures towards enabling Open Science - October 1, 2014
On the eve of the closing of the European Consultation on Science 2.0, LIBER issued a statement both welcoming the Consultation as a step towards strengthening the competitiveness of European research, and calling on the European Commission to take measures towards enabling Open Science. Commenting… Read More
