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News in Brief Ingram acquires CourseSmart Vital Source Technologies, part of Ingram Content Group, has acquired the assets of digital textbook provider CourseSmart. According to Ingram, CourseSmart’s strengths in inventory, instructor sampling and analytics will be integrated with Vital Source’s reader platform and global, scalable distribution network. By combining the two organisations, Vital Source hopes to offer the world’s largest digital content catalogue and provide better digital content solutions for the higher education community.
OpenGrey repository adds French theses OpenGrey, the multidisciplinary repository for European grey literature, has been enriched with nearly 200,000 French doctoral theses records. These records come from the French national theses bibliography and date back to the year 2000. The move, which adds to the documents up to the year 2005 from the SIGLE database, is the result of a partnership between Abes and Inist- CNRS aimed at promoting data from the Sudoc collective catalogue.
Springer shares Altmetric data on SpringerLink
Springer has added altmetrics information to every article available on its online platform SpringerLink. The data is provided by Altmetric, which tracks and analyses the online activity around scholarly literature.
‘Whereas altmetrics were used in the past at Springer for annual journal reports and editorial board meetings, or to track a journal’s performance, now this information is being gathered and shared widely with authors, SpringerLink users and the general public as well,’ commented Martijn Roelandse, senior editor at Springer.
Access to Research initiative begins pilot in UK libraries
Students, independent researchers and small
businesses in the UK can access academic papers through their local libraries thanks to a collaboration between librarians and publishers who have made their journal content available for free to UK libraries. Access to Research will provide licensed online access to over 1.5 million journal articles and conference proceedings through library terminals. Currently, 8,400 journals are included in the initiative, in the fields of health and biological sciences (20 per cent), social
sciences (18 per cent) and engineering (14 per cent). Users will also be able to read a wide variety of articles in the fields of art and architecture; business; environmental science, history, journalism, languages, politics, film, philosophy and religion, mathematics and physics. Access to Research has been launched under the leadership of the Publishers Licensing Society in response to recommendations of the Finch Group to explore how access to publicly funded research could be expanded. Participants in the initiative include: ALPSP, Bloomsbury
Publishing, Cambridge University Press, Dove Press, Elsevier, Emerald, IOP Publishing, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, Portland Press, SAGE Publications, Science Reviews 2000, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Versita, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer Health. In addition, ProQuest has provided, pro bono, its Summon discovery service to improve discoverability of this online journal content.
The service is being rolled out as a two-year pilot, open to all UK local authorities.
ProQuest and Ex Libris work on indexing and integration
ProQuest and Ex Libris Group have announced a collaboration to make their key services work better together. Dozens of ProQuest’s most widely- used content databases will be indexed in the Ex Libris Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic resources. ProQuest’s
ebrary and EBL-Ebook Library collections will also be included. The companies will also work together to identify and investigate additional points of integration with their respective library management software solutions. Users of the Ex Libris Alma unified resource
Partnership helps libraries to manage current awareness
Access to JournalTOCs Premium will be provided free for eligible INASP partner consortia for 17 months from 1 April. This will enable participating libraries to develop and manage effective scholarly journal current awareness services for their researchers. JournalTOCS Premium is the customisable, institutional version of JournalTOCs, which aggregates subscription and open-access journal Tables of Contents. The JournalTOCs Premium customisations for INASP
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consortia, developed as part of the EPSRC-funded JEMO project, will give library users discovery, alerts and access to the full-text of the most current papers published in the electronic journals to which the libraries subscribe. Content from INASP’s Journal Online Projects (Bangladesh Journals Online, Latin America Journals Online, Mongolia Journals Online, Nepal Journals Online and Sri Lanka Journals Online) has been added to JournalTOCs and is included in the service.
management service, and libraries using the Voyager or Aleph integrated library system will be able to deploy ProQuest’s Summon to make their library collections discoverable, just as Primo can be accessed by ProQuest management customers.
IPI-Award 2014 honours Stephen Boyer
The IPI-Award 2014 has been awarded to Stephen Boyer, who was a founding creator of the IBM Intellectual Property Network, which later became known as Delphion (subsequently acquired by Thomson Reuters). According to the IPI team, ‘the apparent ease with which it has become possible to retrieve an international patent document on the internet can be attributed, in large part, to the ground-breaking work of Boyer’.
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