Wolters Kluwer Health ranked third in 2013 Best in KLAS: Software & Services report - February 10, 2014
Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, ranked third overall among 24 software vendors in the 2013 Best in KLAS: Software & Services report. Only Athena Health and Epic outranked the company in the report's overall software vendor ranking. KLAS… Read More
ProQuest Statistical Abstract named SIIA Content CODiE award winner for Best General Reference Service - February 7, 2014
ProQuest® Statistical Abstract of the United States is the winner of the 2014 SIIA CODiE Content Award for Best General Reference Service. Representing the information industry's best products and technologies, this solution is a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organisation of… Read More
Ex Libris announces Azriel Morag Award for Innovation - February 6, 2014
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced the establishment of an annual award to honour the memory of Azriel Morag, the founder and first CEO of Ex Libris, and his immense contribution to Ex Libris and the academic library world. The Azriel Morag… Read More
IET’s Inspec database adds 14 millionth record - January 29, 2014
Inspec, the Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) database of cutting-edge science and engineering research, has indexed its 14 millionth record, highlighting the IET's commitment to making essential, high-quality scientific and technological intelligence easily available to an international audience. Demonstrating Inspec's key position as the… Read More
Submissions for Brill/IFLA Open Access award called for - January 28, 2014
Scholarly publisher Brill, Netherlands, and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) are inviting submissions for the 2014 IFLA/Brill Open Access award. The IFLA/Brill Open Access award is created to reward initiatives that facilitate and/or promote Open Access Scholarly… Read More
Major product enhancements mark 2013 as a banner year for Knovel - January 28, 2014
2013 was a year of significant change for Knovel. Highlights include the acquisition by Elsevier announced last January, the launch of a new Knovel platform and significant content growth. Historically focused on being the first place engineers turn for trusted answers, Knovel… Read More
CCC announces Bryn Mawr College as the 200th academic institution to adopt its Get It Now service - January 24, 2014
Licensing and content solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced Bryn Mawr College as the 200th academic institution to adopt and implement the Get It Now service since its launch in 2011. Furthermore, Get It Now, which was selected as a 2013 Top… Read More
Springer begins 2014 with two major accomplishments - January 23, 2014
Springer started 2014 by announcing two major accomplishments. The publisher completed its Springer Book Archives (SBA), a four-year project to digitise nearly every book it had published from the 1840s to 2004. While the company originally anticipated that around 100,000 books would be part of this… Read More
Academic Complete adds 20,000 titles to its selection of in-demand scholarly academic monographs - January 23, 2014
Academic Complete, the flagship ebook collection from ProQuest's ebook platform, ebrary, has added 20,000 titles to its selection of in-demand scholarly academic monographs. The additional titles come from publishers such as Ashgate, Edinburgh University Press, Harvard University Press, Peter Lang, MIT Press,… Read More
ProQuest solutions named finalists in SIIA Awards - January 20, 2014
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that four of its content and technology solutions are finalists for the 2014 SIIA CODiE Award. Representing the information industry's best products and technologies, the following are among 91 finalists across 26 categories: Best Search Technology Solution:… Read More