Ex Libris Alma goes live at Purdue University Libraries - June 26, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that Purdue University is in production with the next-generation Alma library management solution. A member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and an Alma development partner since 2009, Purdue has played a central role in… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc reports significant growth in impact factors of its journals - June 26, 2013
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers has announced significant growth in the impact factors of its peer-reviewed journals, as reported in the 2012 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (Thomson Reuters 2013). Sixty percent of the Publisher's portfolio of indexed journals received increased impact factors, with 20 titles seeing… Read More
Elsevier and National Association of Postgraduate Centers of Economics in Brazil, announce publishing agreement - June 25, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a publishing agreement with the National Association of Postgraduate Centers of Economics (ANPEC) in Brazil. Under the deal, Elsevier will publish EconomiA, ANPEC's official academy journal, starting September 2013. The journal will be published and hosted as an open… Read More
FIZ Karlsruhe develops new zbMATH web interface - June 25, 2013
Scientific information services provider FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany, has developed the new zbMATH web interface providing an intuitive, easy-to-use information service with enlarged functionality that meets the requirements of users in the mathematical community. zbMATH claims to be the world's largest… Read More
Cell Press journals show significant increases in multiple citation-based measures of impact - June 25, 2013
Science published in Cell Press journals continues to deliver high impact across the research community as reflected in the measures of citation recently released in the 2012 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) published by Thomson Reuters. Looking across impact factor (IF) and immediacy… Read More
University of Nebraska–Lincoln selects Ex Libris’ Rosetta to manage and preserve digital collections - June 25, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) has adopted the Rosetta digital preservation solution. The university will implement Rosetta across the entire campus to preserve the school's renowned digital humanities collections, campus websites, research data, and… Read More