SAGE white paper presents collaborative opportunities for improving discoverability in 2015 |
Academic publisher SAGE has released a new whitepaper ‘Improving the Discoverability of Scholarly Content: Academic Library Priorities and Perspectives,’ which discusses new ways for members of the scholarly communications supply chain to come together to solve discoverability issues. Those attending the ALA Midwinter Meeting are invited to join Elisabeth for a special in-booth presentation of the white paper results on January 31st at 2pm in the SAGE Booth #4021. More Search for more news in this Category |
EBSCO and the American Medical Association expand partnership to promote visibility and adoption of top medical journals |
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and the American Medical Association (AMA) are expanding their relationship in an effort to further promote visibility and adoption of the top medical journals around the world. While EBSCO has long made AMA journals available via its subscription services, EBSCO will now act as a sales agent for The JAMA Network. More Search for more news in this Category |
Elsevier publishes five new geology books essential for professionals in the oil and gas industries |
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of five new geology books. These include the updated and revised third edition of Elements of Petroleum Geology, written by preeminent petroleum geologists, Dr. Richard Selley and Dr. Stephen Sonnenberg. Elements of Petroleum Geology reviews the concepts and methodology of petroleum exploration and production, and reflects the vast changes in the field since publication of the previous edition. More Search for more news in this Category |
American Publishers and Authors require OFAC to permit US publication of books and articles from Syria |
A coalition of leading publisher and author associations has written to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) of the Treasury Department demanding that it revise trade regulations that effectively prohibit American publishers from publishing books and journal articles written by Syrian authors. The Association of American University Presses, the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishers division, and PEN American Center have condemned the portion of the amended and re-issued Syrian sanctions regulations dictating that American publishers may not enter into transactions for Syrian works. More Search for more news in this Category |
Oxford University Press publishes first issue of the European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy |
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced the publication of the first issue of European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy (EHJCVP), which it is publishing on behalf of the European Society for Cardiology (ESC) and the Working Group on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy. The journal’s website can be found at http://ehjcvp.oxfordjournals.org/. More Search for more news in this Category |
Orbis Cascade Alliance and Ex Libris complete implementation of a shared resource management and discovery system |
The Orbis Cascade Alliance, a consortium of 37 North American academic institutions known for innovative collaboration, and library automation services provider Ex Libris Group have announced the completion of a two-year effort to migrate Alliance members to a shared, next-generation library management and discovery solution. Alliance member libraries have migrated from 37 locally hosted systems comprised of four discovery and three ILS platforms to shared use of the cloud-based Alma unified resource management solution and Primo discovery solution. More Search for more news in this Category |
Accessible Archives retains Scholarly iQ to upgrade COUNTER Usage reporting capabilities |
Accessible Archives, Inc., a publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases, has announced that usage statistics for its collections will become available April 1, 2015 using the new COUNTER Release 4 (R4) standards. Scholarly iQ, a provider of eBusiness solutions to the academic publishing market, is the new vendor providing the reporting and data management services. More Search for more news in this Category |
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