 EBSCO Discovery Service helps Universidade do Porto in Portugal increase usage of library resources |
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Universidade do Porto, the largest university in Portugal, has found great success with the implementation of EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS) from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). The university purchased EDS in 2011 after looking at several different services. EDS creates a unified, customised index of an institution’s information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box. More Search for more news in this Category |
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ProQuest transforms research with digitization of rare, historical works from Bibliothèque nationale de France |
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Researchers can now explore early European history and culture as it happened with ProQuest’s release of the first 2 million pages in its massive digitization project with Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) in Paris. When complete, the project will give researchers cover to cover access to more than 28,000 rare European books printed from 1400 to 1700 – 10 million pages – in crisp, fully searchable images. More Search for more news in this Category |
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National Agricultural Library and ASERL partner to archive 875 research journals |
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The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) has announced that the National Agricultural Library (NAL) has become ASERL’s first-ever Program Affiliate. Through this agreement, NAL will partner with ASERL libraries to retain important agriculture-related print journals as part of ASERL’s ‘Scholars Trust’ program, and NAL will use the ‘JRNL’ software tool to manage these holdings and make them discoverable to other program partners. More Search for more news in this Category |
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PeerJ celebrates two-year anniversary of publishing, opens up peer-reviewed article submissions to new journal PeerJ Computer Science |
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Open access journal PeerJ, which began publishing on February 12, 2013, has published 760 articles, and over 1,000 PrePrints across all of the life sciences and medicine, culminating in the work of over 4,000 authors. PeerJ is not only celebrating its two-year anniversary of PeerJ publishing articles in the life sciences and medicine, but also the opening of peer-reviewed article submissions to PeerJ’s newly announced journal PeerJ Computer Science. More Search for more news in this Category |
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NASA public access plan available, uses NIH’s PMC platform |
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NASA has announced its plan for a policy ensuring public access to articles and data resulting from the approximately $3 billion it invests annually in basic and applied research, as required by the February 2013 White House directive. NASA has provided a detailed timeline for the final policy to be fully developed, and is slating October 2015 as the goal for full implementation to begin. More Search for more news in this Category |
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ARL announces accessibility webinar to foster library-publisher collaboration on inclusive learning resources |
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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a free webinar to raise awareness about the value of producing or procuring accessible born-digital resources to support library users of all abilities. The webinar, ‘Working Together: Research Libraries and Publishers on the Value of Inclusive Learning Resources,’ is intended for library administrators and staff, as well as members of the publishing community. More Search for more news in this Category |
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LearnLaunch and Cengage Learning to inspire edtech innovation through expanded partnership in key growth area |
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Cengage Learning, a global education company, will bring LearnLaunch Accelerator, a leading edtech startup program, to Latin America via Cengage Learning’s Laboratorio de Innovacion en Experiencias de Aprendizaje (LINNEA). Located in Chihuahua, Mexico, LINNEA is an innovation lab established by Cengage Learning, National Geographic Learning and The Universidad de Autonoma de Chihuahua with numerous projects underway to explore education and new ways to engage learners. More Search for more news in this Category |
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