Ex Libris launches new release of the Ex Libris Summon discovery service - May 11, 2017
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has launched a new release of the Ex Libris Summon® discovery service to help libraries further address researcher and student needs and streamline operations. The release includes integration with the Ex Libris bX® Recommender service and ProQuest Syndetics Unbound catalogue enrichment… Read More
More than 200 libraries in North Carolina gain access to rich content and a modern discovery experience through Summon service - May 10, 2017
North Carolina's innovative consortium NC LIVE is teaming with ProQuest and Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, to expand its offering of ProQuest® databases along with the renowned Summon® discovery service to each of its more than 200 member libraries. This unprecedented six-year… Read More
Springer Nature becomes largest publisher to open up all reference lists - March 7, 2017
Springer Nature, a global research, educational and professional publisher, has become the largest academic publisher to open up reference lists to advance data discovery and reuse. Working closely with Crossref, Springer Nature will make the metadata for reference lists available across all academic books and owned… Read More
ProQuest Dialog, PatSeer agreement combines content, workflow, analytics and visualisation tools for patent research - March 7, 2017
ProQuest has joined forces with Gridlogics to provide intellectual property searchers with the industry's most comprehensive set of search, workflow, analytics and visualisation tools. Using a single interface, ProQuest Dialog users can search the world's largest collection of prior art along with 33 full-text patent… Read More
Quertle and Elsevier collaborate to integrate ScienceDirect full-text searching within new artificial intelligence discovery tool - February 6, 2017
Quertle, developer of the first artificial intelligence (AI) biomedical big data discovery platform (BioAI™) for biomedical literature, and STM publisher Elsevier have announced that searching of the full-text biomedical and life science content on ScienceDirect, Elsevier's leading information source with over 14… Read More
ProQuest integrates text and video in seamless search for improved contextual discovery - January 16, 2017
One fast, comprehensive search now encompasses content in the ProQuest platform and Alexander Street's popular Academic Video Online, connecting researchers seamlessly to documentaries, training videos, journal articles, news, dissertations, primary sources, ebooks and more in one place. Subscribers to the ProQuest platform and Academic Video Online… Read More
The National Central Library of Rome adds about 2 million records into WorldCat - November 9, 2016
The National Central Library of Rome (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma) has loaded nearly 2 million records into WorldCat, a comprehensive database of information about library collections, to increase visibility of these Italian collections around the world. The National Central Library… Read More
Thomson Reuters reinvents keyword search technology, makes intellectual property searches more intuitive and comprehensive - September 22, 2016
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters reinvented search technology for intellectual property (IP) researchers in its latest update to Thomson Innovation, the premiere IP research and analysis solution. Thomson Innovation brings together the world's most comprehensive international patent coverage and the industry's… Read More
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec adds 2.4 million bibliographic records to WorldCat - August 16, 2016
Global library co-operative OCLC has announced that the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) has contributed 2.4 million records to WorldCat, the world's most comprehensive network of data about library collections. The contribution, which includes 800,000 new records, will make BAnQ's valuable collections more visible… Read More
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali becomes first library in Colombia to use OCLC WorldCat Discovery - August 15, 2016
Global library co-operative OCLC has announced that the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, recognised for its high quality education by the National Accreditation Agency and Ministry of National Education, has become the first library in Colombia to use OCLC WorldCat Discovery services. WorldCat Discovery helps people… Read More
