Ex Libris Group announced the beginning of the beta test phase for Primo Central, the company's upcoming scholarly e-content aggregator.
Posted Jan 19, 2010
Innovative and EBSCO Publishing announced a new technology partnership between the two companies that will offer integrated access to a library's own EBSCOhost subscriptions through the Innovative Encore Discovery platform.
Posted Jan 19, 2010
It's no secret that "cloud computing" is fast becoming one of 2010's hottest buzzwords. With this in mind, Alfresco, an open source enterprise content management system provider, announced on Tuesday, January 12, the company the availability of Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.2 - the new features of which focus largely on cloud capability.
Posted Jan 15, 2010
SAGE expanded the list of titles available through its SAGE Open service.
Posted Jan 15, 2010
Cengage Learning premiered a new website, CengageBrain.com, which functions as a retail outlet for students.
Posted Jan 15, 2010
Bookseller Barnes & Noble moved to expand its pilot program for textbook rentals through its prolific college bookstores.
Posted Jan 15, 2010
ProQuest announced that it has acquired the International Bibliography of Social Sciences (IBSS), a database for indexing interdisciplinary research founded in 1951 and produced by the London School of Economics.
Posted Jan 15, 2010
Digital content provider ebrary has announced a new data sharing feature for its Academic Complete subscribers.
Posted Jan 12, 2010
EBSCO announced the completion of the beta and feedback portions of its development for EBSCONET ERM Essentials, an upcoming product designed to help librarians manage e-resources.
Posted Jan 08, 2010
Serials Solutions added the ability to search resources by Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to KnowledgeWorks and the 360 Core E-Journal Portal.
Posted Jan 08, 2010
Serials Solutions has released a new version of its 360 Search federated search device.
Posted Jan 05, 2010
Information giant Thomson Reuters got a little bit bigger with its acquisition of Discovery Logic, Inc, an analytics and decision support company with roots in scientific research.
Posted Jan 05, 2010
West announced that it has made close to 500 law publications available for purchase in PDF format through its website and online store.
Posted Dec 29, 2009
The Peace Corps announced a new digital library featuring electronic material documenting the Peace Corps between 1961 and the present.
Posted Dec 29, 2009
Serials Solutions 360 services have had their Japanese-language search capabilities modified.
Posted Dec 22, 2009
Emerald Group Publishing Limited has announced an agreement with Knovel under which 11 titles from Emerald's Transport portfolio will be accessible through Knovel's online database.
Posted Dec 22, 2009
Credo Reference announced an agreement with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to integrate that organization's Factbook 2010 into the Credo online collection.
Posted Dec 18, 2009
Thomson Reuters Foundation launched the Emergency Information Service, a new program designed to respond to major national disasters around the world by deploying expert "Action-Units" of journalists to the scenes of major catastrophes to seek out, collect, and disseminate life-saving information.
Posted Dec 18, 2009
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, announced the launch of an iPhone application for its AccessMyLibrary library advocacy program.
Posted Dec 18, 2009
Photo-hosting site Photobucket and wireless imaging services provider Ontela announced that they reached an agreement whereby the two companies will merge operations
Posted Dec 18, 2009
Ex Libris Group has announced a new group of partners, the first academic institutions to collaborate with the company on its Primo Central index of scholarly materials.
Posted Dec 15, 2009
Wiley-Blackwell announced the launch of Essential Evidence, an online addition to its evidence-based content resource Essential Evidence Plus.
Posted Dec 15, 2009
Springer Science+Business Media is under new ownership.
Posted Dec 15, 2009
Symyx Technologies and the Royal Society of Chemistry announced a collaborative effort to enhance the usability and accessibility of public scientific databases.
Posted Dec 11, 2009
Kluwer Law International announced the relaunch of its KluwerArbitration search engine, with improvements to the user interface and a new and improved search engine.
Posted Dec 08, 2009