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Chemistry World April 9, 2014 Anthony King |
Metrics' role in assessing research reviewed A committee set up by Hefce (Higher Education Funding Council for England) aims to grapple with the thorny issue of using metrics to assess and manage research. Metrics have expanded to altmetrics, which track what people are saying about a paper online. |
Information Today April 8, 2014 |
Associations Team Up for Research-Tracking Service The Association of Research Libraries received a joint $1 million grant from IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which will help ARL develop and launch the SHared Access Research Ecosystem. |
Information Today April 3, 2014 |
Innovative Acquires Polaris Library Systems This will allow the companies to work together to enhance support and services to Innovative and Polaris public library customers around the world. |
Information Today April 3, 2014 |
Factiva Updates Searches and Newsletter Builder The updates, which are in response to customer feedback, are the first in a series of enhancements that will make Factiva faster and more user-friendly. |
Information Today April 3, 2014 |
Gale Adds New Digital Collections Gale, part of Cengage Learning, launched the following Gale Digital Collection archives for academic and special libraries, now available on the Gale Artemis research platform. |
Information Today April 3, 2014 |
OCLC Adds Japanese Metadata to WorldCat OCLC partnered with the Japanese distributor NetAdvance to add Japanese-language metadata to WorldCat from the Japan Knowledge Lib database and the JKBooks ebook platform. |
Information Today April 1, 2014 George H. Pike |
Cengage Learning Emerges From Bankruptcy Cengage filed for bankruptcy in late June 2013, when it became unable to restructure nearly $6 billion in debt. |
Information Today April 1, 2014 |
Thomson Reuters Rolls Out WestlawNext Updates Thomson Reuters added two new features to its WestlawNext online legal research service: Custom Pages and eLibraries. |
Information Today April 1, 2014 |
XanEdu and SharedBook Agree to Merge Custom course materials provider XanEdu will merge with the SharedBook publishing and compilation platform. |
Information Today March 27, 2014 |
Ex Libris Group Offers Voyager Updates Ex Libris Group released version 9 of its Voyager ILS, which includes more than 80 enhancements. Many of the changes were in response to suggestions from the product's user community. |
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