EBSCO Roadshow - Coming soon to a library near you
(8/1/10) EBSCO has announced a series of dates for its 2010 Roadshow. The main theme of the roadshow is 'Helping to build libraries for the future'. Librarians and other information professionals are encouraged to check the EBSCO website for roadshow dates and to make their booking.
EBSCO Launches ERM EssentialSTM
(6/1/10) EBSCO has launched EBSCONET® ERM EssentialsTM, which offers key features that librarians need to simplify management of their e-resources. ERM Essentials is pre-populated for orders of e-journals and e-packages purchased through EBSCO with daily updates to ensure accuracy. In 2009, 25 library customers partnered with EBSCO to beta-test ERM Essentials in two phases with an initial round during the spring and a second phase which began in mid-October. EBSCO reports that feedback from beta testers has been positive as they discover a new way to manage their e-resources, eliminating the challenge of maintaining multiple e-mail chains, paper files, spreadsheets and other decentralized information spread across multiple departments and staff (full story).
EBSCO Publishing First Aggregator to Implement Ringgold Identifier
(1/12/09) A new agreement between EBSCO Publishing and Ringgold announces the implementation of the Ringgold Institutional Identifier within EBSCOhost® databases, supplying the Identifier to publishers with their usage reports. By implementing the Ringgold Identifier, EBSCO will be able to provide their publisher clients with accurate and timely reporting, and immediate integration of this information into their internal systems (full story).
New Release of IngentaConnect
(30/11/09) Publishing Technology has announced the latest release of its flagship research platform, IngentaConnect. The release integrates a number of site enhancements to improve user experience and offer greater discoverability of content. IngentaConnect users will benefit from improved content discoverability through the SummonTM service, driving user traffic to IngentaConnect via a trusted partner for access to reliable and credible content with increased efficiency. The release also marks the introduction of WorldPay e-commerce, enabling wider methods of payment, including PayPal, and affords users complete peace of mind when purchasing articles online. Further enhancements include improved social bookmarking, COUNTER 3 compliance and Shibboleth integration (more details).
Swetswise Adds Major New Functionalities with Release 5.4
(30/11/09) Swets have announced the successful launch and implementation of SwetsWise Release 5.4, the latest technical update to its pioneering portfolio of products and services. This latest update introduces a wave of further reporting, charting and claiming functionalities into a number of SwetsWise services, amongst a host of other technical updates and improvements (full details).
Swets Launches ERM as a Service
(26/11/09) Swets has announced the launch of ERM as a Service, powered by SwetsWise. ERM as a Service is a unique solution combining specially selected SwetsWise modules, designed to aid a librarian with the management, evaluation and access of their electronic resources. The package provides librarians with a single, clear and comprehensive overview of their collection, showing what content they own, where their users can access it and what licensing and rights options apply to it. Information professionals can also analyze the cost per use of their electronic resources, which particularly supports the decision process during the renewal season and allows comparisons down to title level (full press release).
SwetsWise places eBooks Procurement Portal into Beta Testing
(19/11/09) Swets has announced that its newly developed eBooks procurement portal has entered into Beta Testing. The portal integrates a comprehensive eBook catalog and procurement options into existing SwetsWise services, most notably SwetsWise Subscriptions. These features will provide customers with a single source for purchasing eBooks and a means to select the desired access route to their acquired content, be it by publishers directly or through an aggregator (full details).
LM Information Delivery Partners Technical Research Centre
(13/11/09) VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has selected LM Information Delivery as it's partner for the delivery and support of SummonTM Service by Serials Solutions. The Summon service is world's first and only available web-scale discovery service designed for libraries. Built with entirely new technology and based on extensive end-user studies, its simple library-branded search box eliminates the confusion users have in finding a starting point for their research (more information).
SwetsWise provides COUNTER 3 compliant usage data
(12/11/09) Swets has announced that SwetsWise Online Content has been successfully audited for compliancy with Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice (full details).
LM Information Expands Business
(10/11/09) Finland-based ASA Member LM Information Delivery is pleased to announce an expansion of its business operations. Building on its established operations in Estonia and Norway, LM will be serving a new customer in Norway, Bodø University College, which has selected LM Information Delivery as its partner providing all publications, print and e-format, beginning January 2010. For more information contact Heli Isoaho Account Manager for Nordic Countries.
CrossRef Renews Relationship with Atypon
(9/11/09) CrossRef has selected Atypon to develop and support a new query system for its reference linking service, continuing a relationship that began eight years ago. CrossRef's query system allows publishers, libraries, and affiliates such as abstracting and indexing organizations to submit metadata representing scholarly content and retrieve CrossRef Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to be used for building persistent links to important scholarly content (full details).
Kinokuniya First Agent to Implement Ringgold Identifier
Kinokuniya Company Ltd is pleased to announce an agreement withwith Ringgold to work together to enhance the accuracy of the entries of the Japanese institutions within Ringgold's OpenIdentify database, and to implement the Ringgold Institutional Identifier within Kinokuniya systems and supply the Identifier to publishers in the future. The Ringgold database uniquely identifies 154,000 institutional entities that subscribe to academic journals and over 7,000 of these are in Japan. The associated metadata includes Japanese and English names, locations, URLs, sizes and subject categories, and Kinokuniya will be using their local knowledge to keep this metadata up to date in the rapidly changing Japanese markets, including corporations, government departments and academia (full details).
EMPACT Partners with IWA
(30/10/09) EMpact SalesTM (EMpact), the publisher representation group of EBSCO, has entered into an agreement with the publisher International Water Association (IWA) in which EMpact will serve as their sales agent. The agreement grants EMpact the rights to sell IWA's electronic and print journals in Italy, Greece, Eastern Europe, United Kingdom, Nordics, Benelux, Ireland and Latin America. For more information, contact Ashley McDuffie.
EBSCO Australia Appoints New Regional Sales Manager
(16/10/09) EBSCO Australia has announced the appointment of Julie Boyd-Reynolds as its new regional sales manager, based in the company's Melbourne office. Boyd-Reynolds, who recently returned from the UK, has 30 years of industry experience, including the last 17 with EBSCO, both in the UK and Australia. In her new role, she is responsible for managing and growing the company's customer base in Victoria, South Australia, ACT and Tasmania. For more information contact Brian McDermott.
Harrassowitz unveils its E-Stats for Libraries service
(9/10/09) Long-term ASA member Harrassowitz has announced the availability of its E-Stats for Libraries service, providing consolidated usage statistics from COUNTER-compliant online providers. This new service harvests usage statistics from publishers' websites and consolidates them into a single COUNTER-style report adding acquisitions information, including cost, for each subscription managed by Harrassowitz. Cost data, both the base price and the amount invoiced, are also added, along with annotations indicating when a title has been ordered as part of a package or combination, giving the library the best possible picture of the cost per resource, even when the resource is part of a package or combination. The consolidated report also helps libraries identify overlapping subscriptions that can occur when an organization subscribes to multiple packages. For more information contact Tina Feick.
OpenURL report from EDINA
(19/9/09) EDINA's Shared OpenURL Data Infrastructure Investigation project explores the potential for services based on aggregated usage data from OpenURL resolvers and the national OpenURL router service. A report on findings is available here.
EBSCO Selected by Victoria Department of Health
(25/9/09) EBSCO is pleased to announce that the Department of Health, Victoria, Australia has selected EBSCO as its managing agent for the next phase of the Clinicians Health Channel contract, providing a web-based portal for all departmental employees to access world-class clinical health and decision-support resources. This opportunity further extends the Clinician's Health Channel information service to healthcare practitioners, clinicians, doctors, nurses and health librarians throughout Victoria's metropolitan and rural areas. Full details of this story can be found here.
EBSCO reveals RapidRenewal service
(18/09/09) EBSCO and a number of library consortia are working together to help consortia members reduce the cost and burden of processing e-journal package renewals. EBSCO's RapidRenewal, available via EBSCONET®, is an online tool for managing the renewal of licensed e-journal collections, and is designed to ease the administrative burdens associated with renewing e-journal packages (see Press Release).
East View database launch
(17/9/09) Arabia Inform and East View Information Services are pleased to announce the AskZad database has launched in North America. AskZad is a digital library of Arabic and English content emanating from the countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and containing over 500 million pages of content. For more information, contact East View or view a recorded webinar on East View products from the Middle East.
Another deal for EMPact
(1/9/09) EMpact SalesTM, the publisher representation group of EBSCO, and AHC Media LLC have signed an agreement in which EMpact will serve as sales and marketing representative for AHC's biotechnology and medical device publications. According to the agreement, EMpact will promote BioWorld Today, Medical Device Daily and several other online titles in China, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Hong Kong, Macau, Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean and Africa (full story).