NFAIS webinar to discuss results of three-year study on the behaviour of the ‘Generation Y’ scholar - June 14, 2012
The US' National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will host a 90-minute webinar on June 20, 2012, from 11:00am – 12:30pm EDST to hear the just-released results of a three-year study on the behaviour of the 'Generation Y' scholar (students born between 1982 -1994) currently… Read More
Elsevier announces new enhancement to SciVal Strata - June 14, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has added a new enhancement to SciVal Strata, a web-based performance evaluation tool that allows users to conduct highly customised performance assessments of research teams and individual researchers. The new functionality provides the capacity for objective assessment of a specific selection… Read More
Development partners to test first functionality of Serials Solutions’ new library management solution - June 14, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that the first functionality of Intota, a new web-scale management solution, is available to its library development partners. Less than a year after announcing development of the service, the six development partners reflecting a broad spectrum of academic libraries,… Read More
Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II in Italy selects EBSCO Discovery Service - June 14, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II in Italy has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) as its discovery tool. The library had been looking to increase the usage of electronic resources among researchers and students… Read More
Kuali OLE-JISC project to help libraries manage their e-resources - June 14, 2012
Kuali OLE, an academic library software collaboration in the US, and JISC, the UK's expert on digital technologies for education and research, have announced a collaboration. The aim is to make data about e-resources - such as publication and licensing information - more easily available. Together,… Read More
Wiley, Blackboard launch combined digital learning integration - June 14, 2012
A new integration for using digital learning content from John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, with the learning management system (LMS) from Blackboard Inc., US, is now available to students and faculty worldwide, the companies announced. The solution gives students and… Read More
