Ingram Content Group in deal with EBL to expand OASIS Library Platform - April 19, 2013
Ingram Content Group Inc., a US-based provider of physical and digital services to the book industry, has announced an agreement with EBL - Ebook Library, an e-book aggregator serving academic, corporate and research libraries worldwide. The deal will allow libraries to search and purchase EBL e-book… Read More
SPARC releases new community resource on Article-Level Metrics - April 17, 2013
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has released a new community resource, Article-Level Metrics - A SPARC Primer, delving into Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) an emerging hot topic in the scholarly publishing arena. ALMs are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how individual… Read More
ProQuest offers archival copies to institutions for digitisation projects - April 15, 2013
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that it is offering archival copies to institutions from their digitisation projects. The aim is to help universities to build robust institutional repositories (IRs) by sharing digital copies of their graduate works which have been converted from… Read More
Complete ‘College & Research Libraries’ archives made freely available online - April 15, 2013
The full archive of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)'s official scholarly research journal, College & Research Libraries (C&RL), is now available for free. The move is seen as part of the association's commitment to scholarly publishing and open access. The online C&RL… Read More
Bowker, ebrary and Choice in joint initiative to enhance RCL tool for libraries - April 11, 2013
ProQuest affiliate Bowker, e-book business ebrary and Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), have united to improve the accessibility and utility of Resources for College Libraries (RCL), a collection development tool for academic libraries. … Read More
Credo announces new technology to streamline research through EBSCO Discovery Service - April 11, 2013
Credo, a provider of information and digital literacy solutions for libraries, has deployed new technology that integrates its growing library of Topic Pages with EBSCO Discovery Service. Students who search EDS will now see Topic Pages, which provide a gateway through Credo's trusted multimedia-rich reference… Read More
ARL releases pre-publication version of an article from RLI 280 - April 10, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released a pre-publication version of an article on 'Open Educational Resources as Learning Materials: Prospects and Strategies for University Libraries,' which will be featured in the forthcoming Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 280. In this article, authors Marilyn… Read More
Northwestern University Libraries select Ex Libris Alma - April 5, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that Northwestern University has selected the Ex Libris Alma next-generation resource management solution for its libraries. A member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of American Universities, Northwestern counts among its libraries the… Read More
NERL operations to relocate to CRL - April 2, 2013
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and the North East Research Libraries Consortium (NERL), a non-profit program operating under the auspices of Yale University, have come to an agreement to relocate NERL operations to CRL. Under this new arrangement, NERL, which licenses major online products on behalf… Read More
ARL publishes Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2010-2011 - April 2, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2010–2011, which presents data describing collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 63 health sciences libraries at ARL member institutions in the US and Canada. In 2010–2011, the reporting health sciences libraries… Read More
