(Ann Arbor, MI, 16 January 2014) – ProQuest today announced four of its content and technology solutions are finalists for the 2014 SIIA CODiE Award. Representing the information industry’s best products and technologies, the following are among 91 finalists across 26 categories. Best Search Technology Solution: ProQuest® Dialog® Best Scholarly Publishing Information Solution: ProQuest® ETD…
(8 January 2014) Libraries and universities with proprietary audio and video collections can now preserve and provide access to these information resources through a new service from ProQuest. ProQuest Video Preservation and Discovery Service (VPDS) is a continuum of services designed to make video and audio content (to which the library has rights) fully discoverable. VPDS…
(6 January 2014) In 2013, NCL revised its assessment criteria and methods and then conducted assessments of 502 public libraries in Taiwan. The process encompassed self assessment and external assessment. Top performing libraries were honoured with awards. Read about the assessment process here.
(13 December 2013) LISU and UKSG are pleased to announce the publication of the report for the project investigating the impact of Library Discovery Technologies on usage of academic content. The research was commissioned by UKSG with the support of Jisc, and was conducted in collaboration with the Centre for Information Management (Loughborough University) and…
(13 December 2013) The Australian National University Library has published two new online guides, Bibliometrics and citation tracking and How to use NVivo, that have been produced with the ANU research community in mind. Bibliometrics and citation tracking explains citation tracking, and introduces a range of tools to measure the impact of research and journals.…
(22 November 2013) Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, is working with IHS Inc. to expand IHS content indexed in the Summon® discovery service to include IHS Jane’s modules and databases. With the inclusion of metadata and full text from the following IHS Jane’s content sets in the Summon index, researchers will now be able to…
(18 November 2013) IEEE recently issued a statement on the appropriate use of bibliometric indicators in journal citations to emphasize the importance of providing accurate citation counts and other indicators when evaluating the quality and impact of scientific publications. The IEEE recognizes the increasing importance of bibliometric indicators as independent measures of quality or impact…
ProQuest Research Companion is a new, intuitive, and self-guided product that supports information literacy, writing, and research skills instruction occurring in today’s libraries, classrooms, and online learning environments. It provides a new foundation and companion to “one-shot” sessions, allowing librarians and educators to focus on teaching the more complex research and writing principles. More here.
(Birmingham, UK, 6 November 2013) Elsevier and the University of Birmingham, UK, have announced the launch of an Investigation of the Discourse of Interdisciplinary Research (IDRD). It is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK). Research is increasingly bringing together scientists from different fields and this investigation aims to analyse how this development…
(7 November 2013) ARL invites libraries to join the global assessment community of LibQUAL+ by registering for the 2014 LibQUAL+ survey, which will feature several enhancements. When the LibQUAL+ survey year opens in January, the team will introduce a mobile version of the survey. LibQUAL+ survey respondents will be automatically directed to the appropriate version…
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