(29 February 2016, Farmington Hills, Mich.) Gale, a leading provider of library resources and part of Cengage Learning, has reached a major milestone in its quest to improve discoverability and researcher workflow, completing indexing work with Google. Researchers can now easily discover scholarly content from Gale and its partners on Google or Google Scholar, through…
(26 February 2016, Alexandria, VA) Alexander Street today announced the launch of two Patron-driven Acquisition (PDA) specialty collections: PDA: Feature Film and PDA: Select. PDA: Feature Film is an innovative collection that gives users access to hundreds of feature films, silent films, and world cinema titles. Many are exclusive to Alexander Street. Top content providers…
(23 February 2016) In October 2015, the open access infrastructure project INTACT started its work. Funded by DFG, INTACT brings together three already existing initiatives which will now collaborate under one roof: The Open APC platform at Bielefeld University Library collects cost information for open access article charges from university and research institutions. The constantly…
(22 February 2016) TrendMD, the leading scholarly content discoverability recommendation platform, shows it increased weekly article pageviews by 49% in a controlled study across 500 articles, offering an effective post-publication dissemination strategy for research and professional news articles in a study now published in Learned Publishing. Unlike publicity, social media, and paid advertising, such as…
(19 February 2016) The Chinese government has issued new rules that ban any foreign-invested company from publishing anything online in China, effective next month. The directive by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which will come into effect on 10 March, states: “Sino-foreign joint ventures, Sino-foreign cooperative ventures and foreign business units shall not…
(21 February 2016) Legal deposit legislation has ensured that the National Library of Australia has collected Australia’s print publications for more than 100 years. Digital history was made on 17 February 2016 as amendments to the legal deposit provisions in the Copyright Act 1968 came into effect, extending the legislation to capture the online publishing…
(16 February 2016) February 15 saw the official launch of the Australian ORCID consortium, at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. The establishment of the consortium was collaboratively facilitated by Universities Australia (UA), the Australian Research Council (ARC), the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS), the Council…
(15 February 2016) IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, and IP.com, a global leader in intellectual property solutions, have collaborated to launch InnovationQ Plus. This new, easy-to-use discovery and analytics platform combines deep engineering knowledge from the vast library of IEEE content with IP.com’s global patent and non-patent literature…
(9 February 2016) BMJ is offering free online resources to support researchers, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to understand and respond to the global health emergency linked to the Zika virus. The online resources are aimed at healthcare professionals located in the affected regions of Latin America, and those across the world, to help…
(1 February 2016, Dubai) Al Manhal has collated eBook titles from the Arab and Muslim world in Arabic, English and French for two new collections: Contemporary References and Media & Communications. Contemporary References collection contains works from the entire Arab region, in a variety of forms, such as dictionaries, glossaries, thesauri, and encyclopedic material, and…
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