ARL and Ithaka S+R’s free web seminar to bring together leaders of seven of the eight cases profiled in the Searching for Sustainability report - December 27, 2013
Museums and libraries are taking advantage of advances in technology to move their rare and unique collections online. What most institutions learn quickly is that digitization is the easy part. As grant funding rarely covers ongoing operations, the larger challenge is to develop a successful strategy to make sure the… Read More
UBM Tech appoints Kim Davis as Editor-in-Chief of SaaS in the Enterprise - December 27, 2013
Business information provider UBM Tech, US, has announced that Kim Davis has been promoted to editor-in-chief of SaaS in the Enterprise, the company's community-oriented site that keeps readers up-to-date about applications in the cloud. Davis has worked as managing editor of SaaS in the Enterprise… Read More
Credo named to EContent Top 100 Companies in the Digital Content Industry - December 27, 2013
Information skills solutions provider Credo has been named by EContent to its Top 100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry in the Content Commerce and Digital Content Provider categories. The EContent 100 List is selected each year by a team of judges,… Read More
Two of the oldest German journals in Zoology opt for ‘platinum’ open access - December 23, 2013
Two of the oldest German journals in Zoology – Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift and Zoosystematics and Evolution – will join the journal publishing platform of Pensoft Publishers and adopt "platinum" open access beginning January 1, 2014. For Pensoft, "platinum" open access means not just that the articles… Read More
Proposal submission deadline approaching for Library Assessment Conference 2014 - December 23, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Washington Libraries, and the conference planning committee are accepting proposals through January 17, 2014, for the Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, to be held in Seattle, Washington, August 4–6, 2014. The goal of… Read More
Arizona University Library Consortium joins Alexander Street’s pilot program for evidence-based acquisition of video resources - December 23, 2013
The Arizona University Library Consortium has become the first library group in North America to join Alexander Street's pilot program for evidence-based acquisition (EBA) of video resources. The Arizona University Library Consortium comprises the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Northern Arizona State University.… Read More
