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Elsevier and Humboldt-Innovation GmbH launch Humboldt Elsevier Advanced Data & Text Centre
STM publisher Elsevier and Humboldt-Innovation GmbH, the technology transfer office of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, has announced the launch of the Humboldt Elsevier Advanced Data & Text (HEADT) Centre. The HEADT Centre brings together experts from Elsevier and researchers from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin to explore innovative ways to better serve the needs of researchers, practitioners and other members of the scientific community in order to reduce barriers to mining content and to identify research misconduct.
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Altmetric launches Altmetric Badges for Books
Altmetrics data provider Altmetric has announced the launch of Altmetric Badges for Books, enabling publishers to provide an at-a-glance summary of the online attention a published book and its individual chapters have received. Designed to be embedded in book and chapter pages on publisher websites and other content-hosting platforms, readers are able to click on the badges to view the Altmetric details page, which provides a collated record of all of the online mentions.
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Ingenta Connect and Kudos partnership to increase discoverability of academic content
Ingenta, a provider of technology and associated services to the publishing and information industries, and Kudos have announced a new partnership to make the Kudos service available to publishers hosted on the Ingenta Connect platform. The 300 publishers aggregated or hosted directly on Ingenta Connect, including many university presses, can now take advantage of this new relationship and its many benefits with immediate effect.
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Keystone Library Network selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo Solutions
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Keystone Library Network (KLN) has selected the Ex Libris Alma® resource management service and Primo® discovery and delivery solution. The Pennsylvania-based consortium of 18 academic and research libraries will be upgrading from the Ex Libris Voyager® integrated library system to the cloud-based, multitenant environment of Alma and the completely redesigned Primo user interface.
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New grant to help Cornell University Library improve information access by scholars
A new grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help Cornell University Library develop new tools and methods to better describe libraries’ scholarly information resources and share those descriptions among different institutions. In collaboration with the libraries of Harvard and Stanford universities and library researchers at the University of Iowa, Cornell has been awarded a $1.5 million, two-year grant to help libraries use linked data to improve the exchange and understanding of information about scholarly resources.
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RUSA appoints Celia Ross as new vendor relations liaison
The President of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), Anne Houston, has appointed Celia Ross, Associate Librarian at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan as Vendor Relations Liaison. The Vendor Relations Liaison’s role is to facilitate communication between RUSA, including its staff, members, committees, sections and Executive Board, and database providers, publishers and other research resource vendors in order to ensure the continued support of RUSA’s awards, events, learning opportunities and strategic plan.
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