OCLC and ABES in deal to add French Sudoc records to WorldCat - September 23, 2009
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, and ABES (l’Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur), France, have signed an agreement to load 9 million records from Système Universitaire de documentation (Sudoc), the cataloguing system for French academic libraries managed by ABES, into WorldCat. WorldCat claims to be the largest… Read More
EBSCO partners with key consortia to make renewal of e-journal packages simpler - September 22, 2009
EBSCO and a number of library consortia are working together to help consortia members reduce the cost and burden of processing e-journal package renewals by using EBSCO’s RapidRenewal service, available via EBSCONET. EBSCO's RapidRenewal, an online tool for managing the renewal of licensed e-journal collections, is… Read More
Berkeley Electronic Press joins Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certification programme - September 22, 2009
E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions, US, has announced that academic publisher Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) has joined its KnowledgeWorks Certified Program. As a KnowledgeWorks Certified content provider, bepress will supply data for 51 journals to more than 360 libraries, guaranteeing mutual subscribers… Read More
Elsevier and the Thai Research Fund partner to form Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board - September 21, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a collaboration with the Thai Research Fund (TRF), to establish a Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB). Scopus claims to be the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources. As research becomes more interdisciplinary… Read More
World Scientific and Stevens Institute of Technology announce publishing partnership - September 18, 2009
Scientific publisher World Scientific Publishing Company (WSPC), Singapore, has announced that it has been selected by Stevens Institute of Technology as publisher for the Systems Research Forum journal and the Systems Research Book Series. The journal will investigate systems via case studies and original research papers… Read More
Hazelden and Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center announce publishing partnership - September 17, 2009
Hazelden, a nonprofit organisation, and the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center (PRC) have announced a partnership to develop a variety of resources for the mental health and addiction treatment industries. These resources, including curricula, books, multimedia tools, and staff-development trainings, will be published under a new ‘Dartmouth… Read More
CMPMedica and EBSCO partner to provide Victorian health care workers with access to MIMS Online - September 17, 2009
Print and electronic subscription information provider EBSCO has been selected by the Department of Health, Victoria as the supplier of choice for the next phase of the Clinicians Health Channel. The Clinicians Health Channel is a resource for employees of the Department of Health, Victoria which gives them online access… Read More
ERFF adds research database to WorldWideScience Alliance science gateway - September 15, 2009
The British Library has announced that the UK has made its first major independent contribution of data to the WorldWideScience Alliance project (www.worldwidescience.org) with the upload of the Environment Research Funders' Forum (ERFF) Research Database. The database holds… Read More
CrossRef collaborates with archiving organisations and publishers for continued access to archives of ceased publications - September 15, 2009
Publisher linking services provider CrossRef, US, has announced a collaboration with archiving organisations and publishers to ensure that several journals that have ceased publication remain linkable with the CrossRef DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) originally assigned to the articles. The titles include Auto/Biography and Graft from SAGE… Read More
Novant Health rolls out MEDai’s patient-specific early warning system to nine hospitals in three states - September 15, 2009
Health information provider MEDai, Inc., US, part of STM publisher Elsevier, has announced that Novant Health, a not-for-profit integrated group of hospitals and physician practices, will roll out MEDai’s Pinpoint Review to its nine hospitals in North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina. Pinpoint Review is a… Read More
