New ProQuest whitepaper highlights opportunities for collaboration between librarians and content aggregators - February 9, 2017
ProQuest's latest whitepaper 'Obstacles and Opportunities: Ebooks, Print and the Impact of Choice on Libraries and the Users They Serve' is now available for download. Focusing on the UK higher-education book market, the paper combines commentary from UK librarians with global data to highlight the complexities… Read More
Knowledge Unlatched and JSTOR partner to study usage of Open Access books - February 6, 2017
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the Open Access initiative supporting monographs in the humanities and social sciences, and JSTOR, the digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources, are partnering to study usage patterns in Open Access by cross-promoting KU titles. While… Read More
STM Online services to grow, says new Simba Information report - February 2, 2017
Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has released a report, STM Online Services 2016-2020, according to which, online services continue to be the fastest growing of all content delivery segments, faster than journals and much faster than books. Before elimination of trading between publishers,… Read More
OpenAthens white paper reveals the importance of information security for authentication systems - January 31, 2017
OpenAthens has published a new white paper that discusses the complexities facing information professionals and publishers when ensuring the security of access and authentication processes. The online information landscape is incredibly complex, with essential digital resources present in almost every industry – from academic to… Read More
New OCLC Research report on digitization in public and state libraries - January 30, 2017
The Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) has announced that OCLC Research has published a new report: Advancing the National Digital Platform: The State of Digitization in US Public and State Libraries. This report summarises the results of a… Read More
New PCG white paper reveals benefits of chapter-level metadata - January 19, 2017
The Publishers Communication Group (PCG) has released a comprehensive study, according to which, there is growing demand in the academic community for chapter-level metadata and abstracts to be made available, and multiple benefits for publishers who are able to provide them. The 'Read More
Usage statistics for Pilot and Round 2 e-books now available - January 18, 2017
Knowledge Unlatched, a not-for- profit company based in England, has revealed the first download figures for KU Round 2 titles that have been unlatched so far. In Round 2, 78 new Humanities and Social Sciences e-books from 26 publishers were made Open Access through the… Read More
Open Access Trends 2017: Challenges and Opportunities - January 11, 2017
Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has examined open access in two recent reports - Open Access Journal Publishing 2016-2020 and Open Access Book Publishing 2016-2020 - and sees several trends developing in 2017. Open access has grown from a conceptual movement to transformational force… Read More
ProQuest releases results of its 2016 Information Literacy Survey - January 6, 2017
Though 83% of librarians agree that information literacy affects college graduation rates and 97% believe that this skill set contributes to success in the workforce, 44% think that their library does not support information literacy instruction as much as it should. A recent ProQuest survey… Read More
Translational Behavioral Medicine now publishes research studies that have null results - January 4, 2017
Scientific behavioural medicine journal Translational Behavioral Medicine now publishes research studies that have null results. Some in the scientific community view null results research as a failure because, by its very definition, a null result means what you expected would happen in your study did not happen. Translational Behavioral… Read More
