80 million German documents from BASE now accessible to EDS researchers - December 8, 2015
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Bielefeld University in Germany have announced a partnership as a result of which more than 80 million documents from more than 3,800 sources are now searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). The agreement enables Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), a multidisciplinary… Read More
American Psychological Association’s PsycINFO® database surpasses 4 million records - December 8, 2015
The American Psychological Association has indexed its 4 millionth record in its PsycINFO® database of scholarly psychology literature. This achievement is the result of over eight decades of detailed abstracting and indexing of international literature in the field of psychology and its related disciplines. Since… Read More
Emerald partners with CLOCKSS Archive to preserve ejournals and ebooks - December 8, 2015
The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with Emerald Group Publishing to preserve their ejournals and ebooks in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries worldwide. This action provides for content to be freely available… Read More
CCC appoints Boris Vulikh to lead Data Engineering team - December 8, 2015
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organization, has announced that former Google Data Architect Boris Vulikh has joined as Director, Data Engineering. Before moving to CCC, Vulikh was Senior Data Architect at ITA Software, a travel industry software division of Google.… Read More
National Diversity in Libraries Conference 2016 call for presentation proposals deadline extended to December 15, 2015 - December 8, 2015
The National Diversity in Libraries Conference (NDLC ’16), cosponsored by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Library and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), will take place on the UCLA campus August 10–13, 2016. The NDLC ’16 Program Committee has extended the deadline for presentation… Read More
Ithaka S+R’s Deanna Marcum selected to receive the NFAIS 2016 Miles Conrad Award - December 7, 2015
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAISTM), a global non-profit membership organisation serving the information services community, has announced that Deanna Marcum, Managing Director of Ithaka S+R, has been selected to receive the NFAIS 2016 Miles Conrad Award. NFAIS’s Miles Conrad Award, long considered the… Read More
