MORE 'EBSCO' POSTS
Roundup (May 16, 2019)
| EBSCO, Ex Libris, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries, Reports, Roundup
A One Page Introduction to ISSN-L; the Cluster Identifier For Periodical Titles COUNTER 5 Reports Now Available on Brill.com EBSCO Information Services Partners with The Carroll Center for the Blind to Advance User Research and Design Ex Libris Hosts Its First Research Management Advisory Council Meeting Infobase Selects LibLynx to provide COUNTER Reporting & Analytics […]
Roundup (April 29, 2019)
| Associations and Organizations, Awards, EBSCO, Ex Libris, Libraries, News, Open Access, Roundup
2019 ALISE Election Results Announced, Sandy Hirsch Elected President Elect EBSCO Information Services and the American Library Association Awards Ten Librarians with Scholarships to Attend ALA Annual Conference Ex Libris to Upgrade Its Primo and Summon Indexes, Consolidating Them into a Unified Central Discovery Index CBLDF Defends Students’ Right to Read in NJ! Open Access […]
Roundup (March 21, 2019)
| Data Files, EBSCO, Ex Libris, Libraries, News, Publishing, Roundup, Video Recordings
Data Curation/Publishing: California State University – East Bay and Montana State University Join Dryad The Ohio State University Libraries Makes Some Design Changes to Discovery Search Database Reprints Desk Inc. Integrates with EBSCO Discovery Service University of Houston Libraries Announces Opening of New “One Button” Video Recording Studio University of Technology Sydney Selects Ex Libris Alma And Leganto
EBSCO Announces Acquisition of Stacks Inc. Emerald Publishing Becomes First Publisher to Adopt F1000’s Open Research Publishing Model, Focusing on Social Sciences A National ORCID Consortium Launches in Greece
Research Article: “Academic E-book Usability From the Student’s Perspective”
| EBSCO, Libraries, News, Publishing
The following article was recently published by Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP). Title Academic E-book Usability From the Student’s Perspective Authors Esta Tovstiadi SUNY Potsdam Natalia Tingle University of Colorado Boulder Gabrielle Wiersma University of Colorado Boulder Source Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP) Vol 13 No 4 DOI: 10.18438/eblip29457 Abstract Objective This article […]
Closing the Gap Between University Presses and Libraries
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), EBSCO, Libraries, News, Publishing
From Lindsey McKenzie at Inside Higher Ed: MIT Press and the University of Michigan Press have both announced plans to start selling their ebook collections directly to libraries by creating their own distribution platforms. The publishers previously did not have a mechanism for selling to institutions directly. Instead, access to ebooks was largely brokered through […]
Open Access Scholarly Research: CORE, An OA Aggregator/Search Tool Partners with NAVER, South Korea’s Leading Search Engine
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, EBSCO, Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users
Ed. Note: If you’ve never used CORE to discover/find open access content, it’s most worthy of your time and attention. As of October 8, 2018 it provides access to over 135 million open access articles. Also, NAVER Academic is available with an English-language user interface. They also offer a research trends feature (beta). From JISC: World’s largest […]
News Roundup (October 3, 2018)
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), EBSCO, Libraries, News, Open Access, Roundup
1. EBSCO Books Reaches More Than 120,000 DRM-Free E-Books 2. ProQuest: New Videos Prepare Incoming Students for College Life 3. Wikipedia Bans Right Wing Site Breitbart as a Source for Facts (via Motherboard) 4. OCLC Signs Agreements with Publishers Worldwide 5. Monitoring Open Access in the Netherlands: Analysing the Content Of the National Portal NARCIS 6. Wi-Fi Alliance […]
EBSCO Releases Serials Price Projection Report for 2019
| Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, EBSCO, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Reports
From an EBSCO Announcement: The 2019 Serials Price Projection Report from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is now available. The report projects that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic medical libraries are expected to be in the range of five to six percent (before currency impact). EBSCO releases the Serials Price Projection Report based on […]
News Roundup (August 7, 2018)
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), EBSCO, Libraries, News, Open Access, Reports, Roundup
1. Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) to Require Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Listing For Single-Journal Publishers 2. GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO and ByWater Solutions Partner to Improve Koha Workflows 3. Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Releases 2017 Annual Report to the Community 4. The OA2020-DE and Knowledge Unlatched are Committed to the Quality of Open Access Books ||| […]
