EBSCO predicts up to 6 percent increase in publisher prices for libraries - September 19, 2011
Publishing services provider EBSCO, US, has announced that it expects the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic/medical libraries for 2012 (before currency impact) to be in the range of 4 to 6 percent. Since the last publication of this report a year… Read More
Amazon Web Services obtains FISMA Moderate Authorization and Accreditation - September 19, 2011
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), part of US-based online retailer Amazon.com, has received Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Moderate Authorization and Accreditation from the US General Services Administration. FISMA requires federal agencies to develop, document and implement an information security system for its data and… Read More
Ithaka S+R announces Research Support Services for Scholars programme - September 19, 2011
Ithaka S+R, the strategy and research arm of Ithaka, has announced a new programme, Research Support Services for Scholars. This programme will comprise a series of discipline-specific research projects aimed to provide critically needed research about the evolving behaviour and needs of scholars to the information… Read More
Elsevier names Dr. Nick Benton as new Editor-in-Chief for Computer Languages, Systems & Structures journal - September 19, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the appointment of Dr. Nick Benton of Microsoft Research as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Computer Languages, Systems & Structures. Dr. Benton succeeds Professor Bala Kalyanasundaram of Georgetown University. Computer Languages, Systems & Structures publishes papers on programming languages. Dr.… Read More
K.U.Leuven selects Ex Libris Rosetta for digital preservation - September 19, 2011
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that Belgium's world-renowned K.U.Leuven has decided to enhance its Leuven Integrated Archive System (LIAS) by adding the Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation system to the university's suite of library products. Rosetta will enable the university to… Read More
RLUK announces new Unique and Distinctive Collections Project Manager appointment - September 19, 2011
Research Libraries UK (RLUK) has appointed Alison Cullingford, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Bradford, to the position of Unique and Distinctive Collections Project Manager. The aim of this specialised part-time role is to help maximise the potential of unique and distinctive collections (UDCs)… Read More
