(1 Aug 2019) London Stock Exchange has agreed to buy financial information business Refinitiv in a US$27 billion deal, it said on Thursday (Aug 1), in a move to transform the British company into a market data and analytics giant. The Refinitiv deal will turn LSE into a major distributor as well as creator of financial…
(30 Jul 2019) SirsiDynix announced today its 18th content connection for eResource Central, their electronic resource integration for discovery. Libraries with content subscriptions for any of the vendors and/or products below can now offer discoverable and direct access from Enterprise—SirsiDynix’ premier discovery platform. Available connections include: Baker & Taylor MackinVIA Project Gutenberg BiblioBoard Macrive Rbdigital Bolinda…
(29 Jul 2019) Elsevier, a global information analytics business specializing in science and health, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Parity Computing Inc. (“Parity”), a California-based business that employs artificial intelligence to provide high-accuracy entity resolution, profiling and recommendations for STM content and applications in the world of research. Parity provides disambiguation technology for…
(18 Jul 2019) The National Taitung University Library and Information Center has been celebrated for winning yet another architectural award, the Central News Agency reported Thursday (July 18). The international real estate federation FIABCI gave its 2019 World Prix d’Excellence Award for Public Infrastructure Amenities to the university for the building on its Zhiben campus last…
(22 Jul 2019) The Auckland Libraries offer a plethora of services that will help build the future in digital, community, youth and Māori Services. Auckland Libraries is not just the buildings. It is about the digital experience, making it accessible and innovative. The digital services are as follows: eCollections and eReading eReading app Accessing heritage online More…
(29 Jul 2019) Cambridge University Press is to expand their provision of open research services with the launch of its own early and open content platform Cambridge Open Engage. Built in-house, Cambridge Open Engage will use the state-of-the-art technology behind Cambridge Core, the online home for the Press’s books and journals, to publish early and open research…
(26 Jul 2019) Austria has taken a major step to adopt ORCID on a national scale. The official ORCID Austria launch event took place in Vienna on June 13. Co-hosted by consortium lead organizations TU Wien and the University of Vienna, supported by ORCID and E-Infrastructures Austria Plus, this was the third ORCID workshop in Austria, but the…
(29 Jul 2019) ‘Predatory journals’ pose a danger that could undermine the quality, integrity, and reliability of published scientific research, a new joint statement from three leading organizations, professional in medical writing and publication planning, has warned. The American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), European Medical Writers Association (EMWA), and International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP)…
(22 July 2019) Jisc is launching three new library services on 31 July 2019. Library hub discover, library hub compare, and library hub cataloguing will make it easier for UK higher education libraries and researchers to access, discover and manage academic collections. Neil Grindley, head of resource discovery at Jisc, said: “We are delighted to…
(26 July 2019) Connecting collections across institutions and discovering hidden knowledge has always been our goal. Due to disparate data sources, differing levels of quality and granularity in the data sets and varying terminologies used for concepts and entities, this has proved to be a challenge. Barring standardisation across knowledge repositories, which is an insurmountable…
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