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
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
