Strategic partnership between Elsevier and Egyptian Knowledge Bank marks fourth year of fruitful cooperation – November 1, 2019

Elsevier, a global information analytics business specialising in science and health, celebrated with the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) the success of four years of strategic partnership under the auspices of Minister of Education and Technical Education and Chairman of the Egyptian Knowledge Bank, His Excellency, Dr.… Read More

CAUL signs first transformative agreement with Portland Press – November 1, 2019

The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) is the first library consortium to sign a transformative agreement with the Biochemical Society (Portland Press), the wholly-owned publishing subsidiary of the Biochemical Society. This is CAUL’s second such agreement following announcement of the first… Read More

NISO releases draft FASTEN Recommended Practice for public comment – November 1, 2019

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is seeking comments on a new draft Recommended Practice pertaining to the modernisation of library-vendor technical interoperability using RESTful web service application programming interfaces (APIs) and standard mobile application intent calls. In the interest of streamlining information transfer between vendor… Read More

IEEE Xplore Digital Library reaches new milestone with 5 million documents now available in its repository – November 1, 2019

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organisation advancing technology for humanity, has announced that the IEEE Xplore® digital library, one of the world’s largest collections of technical literature in engineering, computer science, and related technologies, has reached a new milestone with 5 million documents now available… Read More

SPARC Europe releases summary and implementation guidance of Open Data Directive – November 1, 2019

The Directive on open data and the re-use of public sector information, also called the “Open Data Directive” went into effect in July this year. To aid in the implementation of this new legislation, of which members states have until July 16, 2021 to transpose, <a… <a=”” href=”https://www.knowledgespeak.com/news/sparc-europe-releases-summary-and-implementation-guidance-of-open-data-directive/”>Read More</a…>

PASCAL in deal with Reprints Desk to provide access to scholarly content via Article Galaxy Scholar Collection – November 1, 2019

Research Solutions, Inc., a pioneer in providing cloud-based workflow solutions for R&D driven organisations, has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Reprints Desk has signed an agreement with the Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries (PASCAL) to provide access to peer-reviewed articles and… Read More