Discovery service for the AUNILO Consortium
(19 April 2013) Serials Solutions has built the Summon web-scale discovery service for the AUNILO Consortium at this URL: http://aunilo.summon.serialssolutions.com / (Trial)
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Mellon grant awarded to NISO to encode eResource license templates in ONIX-PL
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the National Information Standards Organization a grant to support the encoding of a collection of template licenses for eResources into the ONIX for Publications Licenses (ONIX-PL) format. The encodings will be deposited into the GOKb and KB+ knowledgebase for free distribution to the library, publishing, and library systems…
Making research easier to track
(15 April 2013) This month sees the UK’s Research Councils’ (RCUK) revised policy on open access (OA) come into force for publicly-funded research to be disseminated through OA routes. A new metadata application profile called RIOXX has been developed by Jisc and UKOLN to ensure that university Institutional Repositories can start to comply with this policy.…
TERI and IOS Press sign hosting agreement for three journals
(17 April 2013 Amsterdam) IOS Press and TERI Press have reached an agreement to make TERI Press journals available through IOS Press. Metapress, IOS Press’ online journal platform, now hosts three of the TERI Press journals. These journals are the International Journal of Regulation and Governance, the Journal of Resource, Energy and Development and World…
World Scientific Publishing signs eBook agreement with YBP Library Services
(Singapore – 17 April 2013) World Scientific Publishing (www.worldscientific.com), an international independent STM publisher, announced today that they have signed a new agreement with YBP Library Services (YBP), the academic division of Baker & Taylor. Customers will be able to access the publisher’s 2012-2013 Front List Full Collection of eBooks that will be available for…
Elsevier has a Japanese user interface for Scopus
(Amsterdam, 17 April 2013) Elsevier has launched a Japanese user interface to Scopus.The interface provides Japanese users with the ability to find their way through the product in their language. Japanese users are now able to find the research information they are looking for more efficiently – expanding beyond Scopus’ basic search functionalities to utilizing…
Why libraries are essential to Myanmar’s development plans
A team from Beyond Access visited Myanmar recently to gain an understanding of the potential for the country’s 5,000 libraries to contribute to development goals. A country brief is the result of that visit. Beyond Access examines key elements of Myanmar’s rapid development and highlights the essential role of public libraries in the development process.…
Leiden Ranking 2013 reveals world’s top universities
(17 April 2013) Today, CWTS Leiden University launches the Leiden Ranking 2013. The ranking measures the scientific performance of 500 major universities worldwide, using a sophisticated set of bibliometric indicators. It is presented via an intuitive and user-friendly website interface: www.leidenranking.com. Source normalization is a new CWTS-developed approach that has the advantage of being independent…
Take the database licensing survey
Primary Research Group, publisher of research reports and surveys about libraries, is surveying public, academic and special libraries worldwide for a report on their database licensing practices. Participants receive a free PDF copy of the report generated from the survey data. Participants are listed in the report but answers are confidential. To take the survey…
New SPARC community resource on article-level metrics
(April 16, 2013) Today, SPARC released a new community resource, Article-Level Metrics — A SPARC Primer, delving into Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) an emerging hot topic in the scholarly publishing arena. Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how individual articles are being discussed, shared, and used. This new SPARC primer is designed to…
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