RSC urges UK govt. to boost funding for research, ahead of next week’s budget - March 15, 2013
The UK's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has urged government to boost funding for science research ahead of next week's Budget. According to RSC, the UK has risked slipping into the margin of world competitiveness without further investment in science. The country's economic recovery is… Read More
ARL issues call for participation in the third Balanced Scorecard Initiative cohort - March 15, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has issued a call for participation in the third Balanced Scorecard (BSC) Initiative cohort. The year-long initiative will engage a small number of research libraries in a systematic way to consider the benefits of applying a locally developed library scorecard.… Read More
OUP named publisher of the year at UK booksellers’ awards - March 15, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has been named Publisher of the Year at a Booksellers Association award ceremony on March 13, 2013. It was the eighth time in nine years that OUP collected the Publisher of the Year award at the Conference for Academic, Professional… Read More
SwetsWise Online Content e-journal gateway now fully searchable via the Primo Central Index - March 15, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that following an agreement with Swets, a developer of innovative content management services for libraries and publishers, mutual customers will be able to search the SwetsWise Online Content e-journal gateway via the Primo Central Index of scholarly… Read More
Reprints Desk launches document delivery service for academic institutions - March 15, 2013
Research Solutions company Reprints Desk, Inc., US, has announced the launch of A-Z Academic Document Delivery Collection, a new single-article document delivery retrieval service for academic libraries that provide literature acquisition services to faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students. University of Washington Libraries was among the… Read More
Springer and The American Meteorological Society partner for electronic distribution of book titles - March 14, 2013
STM publisher Springer has entered into a partnership with The American Meteorological Society (AMS) for the electronic distribution of their book titles for the next three years on SpringerLink. The agreement includes the distribution of monographs, textbooks and popular science titles as… Read More
