Knovel on track for record year with the addition of eight new publishers - October 1, 2013
Knovel, the US-based provider of a Web-based application that integrates technical information with analytical and search tools, has announced that it is on track for its best year yet in bringing new publishers and adding content to the platform with the most recent addition of eight… Read More
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense opts for Ex Libris Primo and SFX - October 1, 2013
Library technology solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense has selected the Primo discovery and delivery service, the Primo Central Index of scholarly e-resources, and the SFX link resolver for its research community. A long-standing Ex Libris customer, Université… Read More
Oxford University Press joins OAPEN-UK project - October 1, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) is joining OAPEN-UK, a collaborative research project exploring open access (OA) scholarly monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences. OAPEN-UK is co-funded by Jisc and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and is gathering data in order to… Read More
Scope achieves yet another milestone in abstraction - September 30, 2013
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced that it has delivered 4 million abstracts of patents, book chapters, technical articles, standards etc, for information providers globally. Scope initiated the abstraction service in 2003 for English… Read More
Springer signs deal to provide NYU access to more than a century of scientific content - September 30, 2013
STM publisher Springer has entered into an agreement to provide New York University (NYU) with the entire English-language contents of its Springer Book Archives (SBA). This deal grants access to around 50,000 English-language titles to researchers, students and faculty at one of the nation's top-ranked universities.… Read More
ALPSP publishes report on the state of the publishing industry – Scholarly Journals Publishing Practice - September 30, 2013
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has published its report on the state of the publishing industry, Scholarly Journals Publishing Practice. Although the report shows that publishers are generally in good health, the ALPSP warned that the report should… Read More
