(May 2013) The volume of freely available online resources continues to grow exponentially. Taylor & Francis have conducted a research programme to help explore the issues relating to free content discoverability from the perspective of librarians. It’s aim was to understand what role librarians see free content having within their institutions; its relative importance compared…
Serials Solutions、Summon ディスカバリサービスが、ネットアドバンスのコンテンツを搭載 (6 June 2013, Seattle, WA) Serials Solutions®, a ProQuest® business, is working with NetAdvance to make content in JapanKnowledge discoverable via the Summon discovery service. Metadata for 13 reference titles from the largest and most reliable provider of Japanese-language content, including encyclopedias, dictionaries and citation indexes will be indexed and available to…
(3 June 2013/PRNewswire/) Elsevier is collaborating with Kasetsart University in Thailand by providing access to Elsevier’s strategic planning solution SciVal Spotlight beginning June 2013. SciVal Spotlight, part of Elsevier’s SciVal suite of research management tools, provides institutions and countries with an interdisciplinary view of their unique research strengths, helping them to define and execute their…
(15 May 2013, Boston, Oxford) – Credo, the industry leader for information skills solutions, today announced that it has launched 12 new and updated Subject and Publisher Collections, adding to the more than 75 collections currently available for perpetual purchase or subscription. Read more about the collections here: http://corp.credoreference.com/about-credo/press-releases/325-15may-content-pr.html
(23 May 2013) Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, is working with Teton Data Systems (TDS) to make STAT!Ref® discoverable via the Summon service. Metadata for more than 400 resources in STAT!Ref from a wide variety of respected publishers and societies covering more than 60 healthcare-related disciplines will be indexed in the Summon service. STAT!Ref includes full text…
How can the funders of research and the researchers themselves prove that the results of their work are publicly available and more, that they are being used? Altmetrics could be the answer. Not sure what Altmetrics is? This paper from the Australian Open Access Support Group provides a brief and succinct summary: http://aoasg.org.au/2013/05/23/altmetrics-and-open-access-a-measure-of-public-interest/
(20 May 2013) John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has launched a trial of Altmetric, a service that tracks and measures the impact of scholarly articles and datasets on both traditional and social media. The six month trial will run on a number of subscription and open access journals published by Wiley including Advanced Materials, Angewandte…
(21 May 2013) On Friday 17th May 2013 DORA, the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, launched. DORA, initiated by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) together with a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals, is about the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scientific research are evaluated,…
The QR based revision tool for innovative on-the-go learning (Los Angeles, CA, 13 May 2013) SAGE today announced the launch of its highly innovative digital revision tool, MobileStudy to aid student learning on the go. As one of the first revision tools to use a QR reader, SAGE’s MobileStudy is a significant step in supporting…
Summon 2.0 was announced recently offering many new features. ACCESS emailed John Law, Vice President of Discovery Solutions, Serials Solutions to find out more. What’s unique for this update? Summon 2.0 offers new features and a new modern, streamlined interface for the Summon® discovery service. Streamlined navigation and contextual guidance provide a rich research experience…
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