NEWS ProQuest
completes Ex Libris acquisition
ProQuest has completed its acquisition of Ex Libris Group, a leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for higher education.
The businesses’
complementary assets are being integrated, enabling existing services to be enhanced and sparking the creation of all-new solutions that will help libraries seize opportunities in rapidly changing technology, content, and user environments. ‘This is a momentous day for our company as we officially welcome Ex Libris and its talented team to ProQuest,’ said Kurt Sanford, ProQuest CEO. ‘We are bringing together a truly unique, expansive combination of capabilities and assets that will also accelerate innovation of new services to address libraries’ most pressing challenges.’ ProQuest has formed a new business unit – Ex Libris, a ProQuest Company – which will continue to support a selection of products including Alma, Aleph, bX, Intota, Primo, Rosetta, SFX, SIPX, Summon, 360 Link, Voyager, and the newly launched Leganto reading-list solution and campusM mobile campus solution.
The Ex Libris business unit is led by Matti Shem-Tov, reporting to Sanford and supported by a team comprised of both Ex Libris management and ProQuest Workflow Solutions management. ‘Ex Libris has an impressive record of innovation and growth, and throughout its long history has nurtured close relationships with our broad customer community,’ remarked Shem-Tov.
Report highlights structural diversity
Digital Science and the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex have highlighted the importance of structural diversity to enable a sustainable research base. Structural diversity in the academic environment refers to having multiplicity and disparity of subject areas, institutions and support mechanisms in research. Digital Science says the report expands and explains the conceptualisation of structural diversity, and talks about how diversity contributes to a flexible and responsive research base. The main discussion points in the report, The Value Of Structural
Diversity, are: l Structural diversity needs as much attention as research performance when governments assess a ‘strong’ research base;
l Structural diversity not only produces great research today, but provides the flexible capacity and responsive capability that addresses new challenges tomorrow;
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l The report develops the concept of structural diversity the diversity of disciplines, institutions and support mechanisms in the context of research management, and interprets that diversity via new graphical visualisation;
l Analysis, via a new network map of the REF 2014 impact case studies, shows that structural diversity is associated with innovative and impactful research outcomes;
l Structural diversity is also revealed across institutions in a SPRU analysis that suggests conventional evaluations based on bibliometrics have
undervalued the contribution of diversity to fostering interdisciplinary outcomes; and
l Structural diversity across countries enables countries like the UK to maintain many disciplines and then switch resources to them when priorities change. Jonathan Adams, chief scientist at Digital Science, said: ‘Structural diversity in research is a key attribute for leading economies and institutions. It has been criminally understudied and undervalued, but it is the substance that forms our ability to tackle innovation.’
Highwire Press becomes CHORUS affiliate
HighWire Press, the technology platform and strategic partner to scholarly publishers and societies, has announced its participation as an affiliate member of CHORUS (Clearing House for the Open Research of the United States). A not-for-profit membership organisation, CHORUS’ goal is to help publishers comply with mandates from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and to streamline access to the best available version of federally funded research
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articles, using CrossRef Funding Data and other open technology integrations. HighWire has been involved in keeping the dialog about CHORUS and the OSTP access initiative active within the HighWire publisher community, convening an interactive discussion on the topic beginning in the summer of 2013. Susan King, chair of the
CHORUS Board, and Howard Ratner, executive director of CHORUS, have both participated
in HighWire Publishers’ Meetings and webinars, where they shared their enthusiasm for expanding partnerships with funding agencies and publishers. ‘HighWire actively listens to the issues facing the publishing community,’ said Dan Filby, CEO of HighWire Press. ‘Our membership in CHORUS demonstrates our continued investment in innovative technologies to solve the evolving requirements of scholarly communication.’
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