Greater Western Library Alliance announces preferred purchasing agreement with Reprints Desk, Inc. - February 25, 2015
The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) has announced a preferred purchasing agreement with Reprints Desk, Inc., a Research Solutions company. GWLA members will receive preferred purchasing terms for single-article document delivery services. The agreement, which supplements interlibrary loan (ILL) and provides same-day… Read More
Springer partners with CCC to deliver XML content for corporate biomedical text mining - February 24, 2015
STM publisher Springer has partnered with Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) on a new solution enabling corporate life sciences researchers to perform text and data mining (TDM) quickly and easily across publishers. As one of the first publishers to sign onto the service,… Read More
Overleaf and The Genetics Society of America announce new partnership - February 24, 2015
Overleaf (previously WriteLaTeX) has announced a new partnership with The Genetics Society of America (GSA). Through this partnership, authors submitting to GSA's GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics journals will soon have access to the Overleaf collaborative cloud-based writing and reviewing tool. They will… Read More
Texas Tech Libraries joins HathiTrust - February 24, 2015
Texas Tech University Libraries has joined HathiTrust, a partnership of academic and research institutions offering a collection of millions of digitised titles from more than 100 libraries throughout the world. The partnership increases Texas Tech Libraries' holdings by more than 5… Read More
EBSCO acquires YBP Library Services and its GOBI platform from Baker & Taylor, Inc. - February 23, 2015
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced a significant investment in the library workflow with the acquisition of YBP Library Services (YBP) from Baker &Taylor. Founded in 1971, YBP Library Services has served as the leader in delivering academic library workflow and… Read More
Springer and Turkish consortium TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM EKUAL sign agreement for nationwide access to scientific journals - February 23, 2015
STM publisher Springer and the Turkish consortium TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM EKUAL have signed a comprehensive license agreement for access to Springer's complete journal collection plus the Adis collections. The new agreement enables scientists, researchers and students from 193 academic and research institutions in Turkey to use and… Read More
ProQuest continues collaboration with YBP - February 23, 2015
ProQuest has announced that it will continue its longstanding relationship with YBP, enabling libraries to purchase its selection of more than 730,000 ebooks through the GOBI platform. ProQuest titles will continue to be offered through all available purchase models, including Perpetual Archive, Short-Term Loans, Demand-driven Acquisition… Read More
MBS Textbook Exchange, Inc. selects Vital Source to be digital fulfillment vendor for all of its educational content - February 23, 2015
Vital Source Technologies, Inc., Ingram Content Group's digital content delivery system, has announced that Vital Source has been selected by MBS Textbook Exchange, Inc. to be the digital fulfillment vendor for all of its educational content. This agreement with MBS, the industry leader in providing virtual… Read More
Wolters Kluwer to be official publisher of the Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal - February 20, 2015
Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that it is the official publisher of the Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal with the release of its March issue. The journal is the official journal of the Cardiovascular… Read More
Nevada to use Elsevier DirectCourse to train employment professionals - February 19, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that Nevada's Aging and Disability Services Division (ADSD) will provide a new online curriculum from Elsevier Direct Course to train about 75 ADSD staffers. These professionals work to improve employment outcomes for Nevada adults and adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities… Read More
