EBSCO Publishing and OpenEdition in deal to bring OA content in humanities and social sciences to EDS - December 7, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that content from the French open access publishing platform openedition.org (OpenEdition) will now be searchable through EBSCO Discovery Service. OpenEdition is made up of three community publishing platforms dedicated to the humanities and social sciences. The… Read More
IOP Publishing joins GakuNin Japanese Shibboleth Federation - December 7, 2011
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has expanded its Shibboleth compliance to include the Japanese Federation GakuNin. Users in Japanese institutions who are members of GakuNin can now access subscribed content from multiple resources using just one ID and password, whether they are… Read More
Unbound Medicine partners with Johns Hopkins POC-IT Center to launch the La Guía del VIH de Johns Hopkins web service - December 7, 2011
Unbound Medicine, a US-based provider of knowledge management solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced the launch of La Guía del VIH de Johns Hopkins, a web service developed in partnership with the Johns Hopkins POC-IT Center. The service, a Spanish-language adaptation of the Johns… Read More
Portico in deal with Cambridge University Press to preserve Cambridge Books Online content - December 7, 2011
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that Cambridge University Press will preserve its Cambridge Books Online content with Portico. Through this agreement, Cambridge extends its relationship with Portico, which began in 2006 with the publisher's commitment to deposit its entire list of e-journals… Read More
ARL publishes SPEC Kit 326, focuses on digital humanities - December 7, 2011
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Digital Humanities, SPEC Kit 326, which provides a snapshot of research library experiences with digital scholarship centers or services that support the humanities and the benefits and challenges of hosting them. The survey asked ARL libraries about… Read More
E-books from American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics now available on the ebrary platform - December 7, 2011
E-books and research technology provider ebrary, US, a ProQuest business, has partnered with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The AIAA claims to be the world's largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession. Under terms of the agreement, nearly 300 AIAA… Read More
