Four additional publishers adopt NISO’s KBART - January 13, 2021
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that four more publishers have recently started supplying metadata that conforms to the NISO recommended practice, KBART: Knowledge Bases And Related Tools. Totally 62 publishers have now achieved KBART compliance since the recommended practice was originally published in 2010.… Read More
EBSCO Information Services launches EBSCOed™ - January 13, 2021
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is announcing the availability of EBSCOed™ powered by Stacks, a web-based content management system that makes it easy for schools to aggregate and streamline access to their digital resources in an interoperable, personalised experience. Developed in partnership… Read More
ProQuest launches ProQuest One™ Business to support business faculty and students - January 13, 2021
ProQuest has announced the launch of a new solution designed to support the unique teaching and learning needs of business faculty and students: ProQuest One™ Business. Developed in collaboration with faculty, students and business librarians, ProQuest One Business delivers a mix of practical and theoretical content… Read More
zbMATH now becomes open access platform - January 13, 2021
With its funding decision, the Joint Science Conference of the Federal Government and the Länder initiated the zbMATH Open in 2019. In a complex work process, now the information service was transferred to an open access platform. This means that much of the data can be freely… Read More
Pluto Journals successfully flips its journal portfolio to Open Access in partnership with Knowledge Unlatched - January 13, 2021
Pluto Journals, the social sciences publisher, has successfully reached the goal to flip its complete journal portfolio of 21 journals to Open Access from 2021 onwards. The project ‘Pluto Open Journals’ was realised in partnership with Knowledge Unlatched (KU), and supported by the… Read More
Holiday Notice - January 13, 2021
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on January 14, 2021 on account of a regional holiday. We will resume our newsletter service on Friday, January 15, 2021. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the January 13th issue. Read More