Choice awards Outstanding Academic Title to ebrary’s Academic Complete - February 1, 2011
Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that its Academic Complete subscription database has received the designation of Choice Outstanding Academic Title (OAT). Licensed by thousands of libraries worldwide, Academic Complete features a growing selection of more than 52,000 e-books in all… Read More
EBSCO to provide enhanced integration and linking services to over 23,000 e-journals - January 20, 2011
Information services provider EBSCO, US, has announced that it has increased the number of e-journals available for end-to-end integration and enhanced linking to more than 23,000. With this move, EBSCO seeks to simplify e-resource management for those journals subscribed to through EBSCO. With end-to-end integration,… Read More
Wiley marks 10th anniversary of Online Books publishing programme - January 18, 2011
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and Scholarly (STMS) publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., marked the tenth anniversary of its Online Books publishing programme at the American Libraries Association's Midwinter conference, January 7-11, 2011, in San Diego, CA. In 2001, Wiley was among the first publishers… Read More
SIIA announces finalists for 2011 CODiE Awards in digital content categories - January 17, 2011
The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) has announced the finalists for the CODiE Awards in the categories relating to digital content aggregation, distribution, management and publishing. The products that qualified will now be reviewed by members of SIIA, who will vote on winners in six… Read More
RSC Publishing platform reaches the one million milestone - January 17, 2011
Scientific publisher RSC Publishing, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, has announced that the one millionth publication to appear on the RSC Publishing Platform recently went online. The seven figure milestone was reached as the RSC’s range of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, books,… Read More
Delmar career certifications to be added to Testing and Education Reference Center - January 13, 2011
Information and education solutions provider Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, and Peterson's, a Nelnet company, have announced that Cengage Learning's proprietary Delmar career certifications will be added for the first time to the Testing and Education Reference Center (TERC), which Gale distributes to libraries on… Read More
CRC Press wins CHOICE Outstanding Academic Resource award for CRCnetBASE platform - January 11, 2011
Scientific and technical publisher CRC Press, US, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, has announced that its CRCnetBASE eBook platform is the recipient of the 'Outstanding Academic Resource (OAR)' award from CHOICE. OAR winners are chosen for their excellence in scholarship and presentation and the… Read More
Ex Libris’ worldwide SFX customer base now exceeds 2000 - January 10, 2011
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the number of institutions that are using the SFX OpenURL link resolver now exceeds 2000, spanning 60 countries. According to the company, SFX offers a wealth of features that go far beyond the basic… Read More
BioMed Central extends nomination deadline for 5th Annual Research Awards - January 7, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the nomination deadline for its 5th Annual Research Awards has been extended by two weeks to January 14, 2011. These awards, now in their fifth year, recognise excellence in research that has been made universally accessible by… Read More
APA seeks nominations for 2011 APA Excellence in Librarianship Award - January 7, 2011
The American Psychological Association (APA) is seeking nominations for the 2011 APA Excellence in Librarianship Award. The award will be presented at the Educational & Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) Research Forum at the June 2011 American Library Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. The… Read More
