Western Michigan University selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo - October 7, 2014
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that Western Michigan University has selected the Alma library management service and the Primo discovery and delivery solution to provide unified resource management and unified resource discovery. Alma and Primo replace multiple homegrown… Read More
Elsevier signs on to CCC’s Republication Service - October 6, 2014
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organization, has announced that STM publisher Elsevier has signed on to CCC's Republication Service to simplify the process of negotiating broad republication permissions for its Science & Technology and Health books… Read More
IOS Press selects Semantico to design new journals and book platform - October 6, 2014
Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd., UK, has been selected by IOS Press, an independent, international STM publishing house, to design and deliver a new publishing platform to support their growing collection of STM books and journals. IOS Press publishes more than… Read More
The Yankalilla Library marks final SAPLN member to go live on SirsiDynix Symphony - October 6, 2014
SirsiDynix has announced that the final member of the South Australian Public Library Network (SAPLN) is prepared to go live with SirsiDynix Symphony. Yankalilla will mark the 77th SAPLN site to go live since the consortium's Symphony implementation began in 2012. With a complete Symphony integration—… Read More
Thomson Reuters and Russia’s Scientific Electronic Library eLibrary.RU collaborate to showcase nation’s leading research in Web of Science - October 2, 2014
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with Russia’s Scientific Electronic Library eLibrary.ru to make content from the Russian Science Citation Index accessible via the Web of Science, the premier global search and discovery platform for… Read More
Vital Source and Metrodigi collaborate to enable production of interactive content - October 2, 2014
Vital Source Technologies, Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, and Metrodigi®, a cloud-based content creation software company, have announced a collaboration at the EDUCAUSE 2014. This collaboration provides educational publishers with a powerful end-to-end solution for the production and distribution of customisable, interactive digital products. As… Read More
Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities now available digitally as American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955™ via EBSCO - October 1, 2014
The print index, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities (DDAAU), is now available digitally as American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955™. EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston worked together to digitize the content and build the free database… Read More
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses joins The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group, adds two AACN journals to ISPG offerings - October 1, 2014
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) recently joined The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG) and will add two of AACN's award-winning journals to the ISPG offerings - American Journal of Critical Care and Critical Care Nurse. As part of this… Read More
Austin Community College and McGraw-Hill Education unveil world’s largest adaptive - October 1, 2014
McGraw-Hill Education and Austin Community College unveiled the world's largest "math emporium," a 600-seat lab that has the capacity to serve half of the district's over 41,000 credit students in developmental math at the 2014 annual EDUCAUSE conference. Known as the ACCelerator,… Read More
Copyright Clearance Center partners with Frankfurt Book Fair for series of international events in 2014-15 - September 30, 2014
Global licensing and content solutions organisation Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has been named the Rights Licensing Partner of the 2014 Frankfurt Book Fair. The Rights Licensing Partnership includes sponsorship of the International Rights Directors Meeting, CONTEC Frankfurt, and various Business Breakfasts.… Read More