Plymouth University collaborates with Vital Source Technologies to launch largest e-textbook programme in the UK - October 10, 2014
Plymouth University has announced a collaboration with Vital Source Technologies, Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, to provide textbooks for their institution-wide digital initiative, which is the largest e-textbook programme ever undertaken in the UK. Plymouth University's e-textbook programme, launched this… Read More
National Library of the Netherlands in deal with OCLC to add four key collections of digitised resources from Dutch-speaking countries to WorldCat - October 10, 2014
The National Library of the Netherlands, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), has entered into an agreement with OCLC to add four important collections of digitised resources from Dutch-speaking countries to WorldCat for discovery of these valuable resources worldwide. The extensive and historically significant… Read More
Gale signs new publishers, increases STEM content in Virtual Reference Library - October 9, 2014
New content covering popular healthcare and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) topics is now available on Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL), the e-book platform offered by Gale, part of Cengage Learning. The signing of publishers Taylor & Francis, Mitchell Lane, HCPro… Read More
Infotrieve and National Research Council of Canada extend information delivery and library services partnership - October 9, 2014
Infotrieve, Inc., a leader in global-enterprise SaaS software and business services for scientific, technical and medical ("STM") published content access and management, has announced that it will extend its current partnership with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to exclusively provide information delivery and library… Read More
Maney set to publish Ship Technology Research - October 9, 2014
Academic publisher Maney Publishing has announced that it will publish Ship Technology Research – Schiffstechnik, on behalf of the University of Duisburg-Essen, from 2015. Established in 1952 as Schiffstechnik, Ship Technology Research publishes applied research on ships and offshore structures. The journal enables engineers and… Read More
CAS and Obiter Research collaborate to provide SciFinder to scientists at Obiter Research - October 8, 2014
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world's authority for chemical information, has announced a collaboration with Obiter Research, a custom contract chemical research and manufacturing company. Under the deal, CAS will provide SciFinder, the choice for chemistry research, for the Obiter research staff,… Read More
MyHeritage partners with EBSCO Information Services to bring MyHeritage to libraries and educational institutions worldwide - October 8, 2014
MyHeritage, the popular family history network, has announced a significant expansion into the institutional education market, with the launch of a dedicated, high-performance family history service for institutions and the signing of a strategic partnership with EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) to distribute… Read More
Three Scholarly Publishers implement CCC’s RightsLink for OA platform and Aries Systems’ Editorial Manager - October 8, 2014
Global licensing and content solutions organisation Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced that scholarly publishers De Gruyter, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Publishing, and Maney Publishing have chosen to automate the collection and… Read More
McGraw-Hill Professional eBook Library now available via YBP Library Services GOBI-3 platform - October 7, 2014
McGraw-Hill Professional (MHP), a division of McGraw-Hill Education, is partnering with YBP Library Services (YBP), the academic division of Baker & Taylor, to make its eBook Library collections available through GOBI3. This will enable librarians to integrate MHP's eBook Library collections into their existing selection processes… Read More
ProQuest and The Economist Intelligence Unit team up to create first online archive of EIU’s global economic analyses - October 7, 2014
ProQuest and The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) have teamed to create the first online archive of the EIU's global economic analyses – a single source for unbiased, comprehensive reports and statistical data on approximately 200 countries. Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports Archive… Read More
