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
Two EBSCO Health point-of-care clinical reference tools rated highest in their categories - January 15, 2014
Two EBSCO Health point-of-care clinical reference tools have been rated highest in their categories by healthcare providers according to a new report on clinical decision support resources. In the report produced by KLAS, a research firm that specialises in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare… Read More
EBSCO awards five scholarships for librarians to attend 2014 ALA Midwinter Meeting - January 9, 2014
In co-sponsorship with American Library Association (ALA), EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has awarded five librarians a $1,500 scholarship to attend the 2014 ALA Midwinter Meeting, January 24-28 in Philadelphia. As part of the application process, librarians were asked to write an essay… Read More
Knovel named 2014 CODiE Award finalist in two categories - January 7, 2014
Knovel, provider of a cloud-based application that integrates technical information with analytical and search tools, is a 2014 CODiE Award finalist for Best Science and Technology Information Solution and Best Service Using Aggregated Content. Finalists represent the information industry's best products, technologies, and services created by… Read More
Nature Selects ‘Single-Cell Sequencing’ as the 2013 Method of the Year - January 3, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group has selected single-cell sequencing as its Method of the Year for 2013 (www.nature.com/nmeth/index.html). The publication, in explaining its choice, noted that "methods to sequence the DNA and RNA of single cells are poised to transform many areas… Read More
ProQuest Stat Ab and Queen Victoria’s Journals selected for Choice Magazine’s annual Outstanding Academic Titles list - January 3, 2014
ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States and Queen Victoria's Journals have been selected for Choice Magazine's annual, highly acclaimed Outstanding Academic Titles list. ProQuest's 'Stat Ab' has been heralded for rescuing and upgrading an 'essential' reference from extinction, while Queen Victoria's Journals was noted for… Read More
American Journal of Nursing announces 2013 Book of the Year awards - December 31, 2013
The American Journal of Nursing (AJN) has recognized the best nursing and healthcare publications of 2013 with an announcement of its Book of the Year Award recipients. Winners in 17 separate categories appear in the journal's January issue. AJN, "the leading voice of nursing since 1900",… Read More
