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The first scientific literature AI agent from a publisher on AWS to debut at the 7th annual AWS Life Sciences Symposium
Posted 3 June 2025
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) partners with ChronosHub to provide a centralized portal in which researchers will manage their publishing activities with IEEE,?simplifying the publishing journey?through?a user-first experience while?also?optimizing operations.
Posted 3 June 2025
It will now redirect from ccTLDs to Google.com.
Posted 6 May 2025
A new AI tool to identify irrelevant references in submitted manuscripts has been launched for use across Springer Nature's journals and books.
Posted 6 May 2025
New tool enhancements offer greater personalisation, transparency and new avenues for digital humanities research as Colleges increasingly prioritise essential skills
Posted 6 May 2025
It will become a new legal entity, the DOAJ Foundation, a Danish nonprofit foundation.
Posted 1 April 2025
This new generative AI tool saves half of literature research time, supports better outcomes.
Posted 1 April 2025
Taylor & Francis announced plans to use AI translation tools to publish books that would otherwise be unavailable to English-language readers.
Posted 1 April 2025
Portico has signed an agreement with Clarivate to preserve books available to academic libraries through Ebook Central.
Posted 1 April 2025
Silverchair partnered with the Publications division of the American Chemical Society (ACS Publications) to develop a new content hosting platform that will deliver ACS's indispensable chemistry-related resources to the global research community.
Posted 4 March 2025
Researchers using the GetFTR Browser Extension will immediately benefit from the update
Posted 4 March 2025
Pilot aims to inform a more equitable approach to pricing, based on World Bank economic data.
Posted 4 March 2025
New modular analytics solution empowers commercial teams to optimize strategies and improve patient outcomes
Posted 4 February 2025
Ai2 ScholarQA is an experimental tool for researchers who need to compare and summarize multiple papers to understand the complex relationships among them when doing literature reviews.
Posted 4 February 2025
The European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH), a pioneering initiative to advance Diamond Open Access publishing across Europe, was officially launched on 15th January 2025, in Madrid.
Posted 4 February 2025
Coherent Digital launched Applied Science Commons, a groundbreaking initiative to make high-impact, real-world STEM content more accessible to academic and other research institutions through a faster, more comprehensive approach.
Posted 7 January 2025
Sage grows through key acquisitions ahead of its 60th year
Posted 7 January 2025
Altmetric now tracks research influence across Bluesky's 23+ million - and growing - social media accounts
Posted 7 January 2025
An AI neural network has unearthed a long-debated truth about Raphael's Madonna della Rosa, a painting historically attributed to this Italian Renaissance master.
Posted 2 January 2025
The new venture, European Search Perspective, is based in Paris with ownership split equally between Ecosia and Qwant.
Posted 3 December 2024
Calling it a groundbreaking suite of comparative library analytics, nest allows libraries to analyze their collections and produce dynamic dashboards for comparisons with peer institutions.
Posted 3 December 2024
Dow Jones announces GenAI content licensing agreements with thousands of sources worldwide.
Posted 3 December 2024
ProQuest One Sustainability offers a transdisciplinary research experience and features AI-powered ProQuest Research Assistant
Posted 3 December 2024
DataSeer is helping AAAS boost reporting standards, collaborating with Taylor & Francis for compliance checks and open science metrics, and at KnowledgeWorks Global integrating open science checks into smart reviews.
Posted 5 November 2024
A Major Digitization Project Has Been Completed Thanks to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
Posted 5 November 2024
The new Passport AI is designed to supercharge the power of Euromonitor International's market intelligence expertise, combining cutting-edge AI with human intelligence.
Posted 5 November 2024
The Internet Archives announces the ability to access archived webpages directly through Google search.
Posted 1 October 2024
Clarivate Plc launched its first Pulse of the Library report on 9 September 2024, revealing that libraries are in the early days of Artificial Intelligence (AI) implementation and on 25 September 2024 unveiled its Comprehensive Framework to Evaluate the Societal Impact of Research.
Posted 1 October 2024
The new article type is now available at PLOS Climate, PLOS Global Public Health, PLOS Mental Health and PLOS Water.
Posted 1 October 2024
The partnership of Recollect and SirsiDynix to bring Recollect's Digital Collection Management and Community Engagement solution to SirsiDynix customers worldwide.
Posted 3 September 2024
Dewey linked data creates connections between broad classification numbers and specific subject topics.
Posted 3 September 2024
Developed as an internal tool within Deloitte, Moonlit offers a comprehensive AI-driven legal research platform that continuously monitors legal activities across EU member states.
Posted 3 September 2024
Clarivate acquired Rowan TELS to enhance support for patent ractitioners and launched the IP Collaboration Hub
Posted 6 August 2024
Inclusion of a growing collection of harmonized rights for the internal use of content within AI Systems drives value for companies with CCC's Annual Copyright Licenses
Posted 6 August 2024
An initiative to strengthen the European repository network began with a comprehensive survey of the repository landscape. The next step is preparing a position paper.
Posted 6 August 2024
All three awards are open to individuals or groups from anywhere in the world.
Posted 6 August 2024
The new database provides access to millions of pages of key UK Parliamentary materials.
Posted 2 July 2024
In a groundbreaking move, augmented reality technology will be incorporated into Karger's scientific journal, offering authors new options to visualize their research.
Posted 2 July 2024
Based on feedback from the academic community, Scopus AI has added new functionalties, such as concept map improvements, SML reranking, more transparency, and exporting to SciVal.
Posted 2 July 2024
Wolters Kluwer unveiled its dedicated AI center on 6 May 2024. The launch marks the company's ongoing commitment to combining deep domain knowledge with cutting-edge technology such as artificial intelligence (AI), which Wolters Kluwer has been incorporating into its products for the last 10 years.
Posted 4 June 2024
Transformative new scientific information capabilities combine an unparalleled collection of curated science data with advanced predictive models to accelerate early-stage drug discovery innovation
Posted 4 June 2024
SciBite Chat combines the strength of semantic search for accurate and traceable information retrieval with Large Language Models (LLMs) to interpret natural language questions and generate answers.
Posted 4 June 2024
Global legal intelligence innovator vLex added litigation and transactional GenAI tools for analysis and summarisation of legal documents.
Posted 7 May 2024
OCLC acquires digital content provider from Bibliotheca to meet the needs of public library communities,
Posted 7 May 2024
The policy marks the latest move by the publisher in integrating open research practice into its journal and book workflow, making it easier for authors to benefit from open science
Posted 2 April 2024
From metadata harvesters, to research institutions, to bibliometricians, everyone is welcome to use the DataCite public data file.
Posted 2 April 2024
New OCLC Leaders Council to be phased in over the next year
Posted 2 April 2024
A new agreement with The Wikipedia Library allows volunteer editors to use the latest peer-reviewed research to enhance the quality and reliability of Wikipedia articles.
Posted 5 March 2024
Over 70 knowledge domains are available for licence to content producers who can use them as they deploy AI systems in their organizations. The knowledge domains cover a wide range of topics, including medicine, engineering, humanities, biology, and chemistry, among others.
Posted 5 March 2024
The two new titles in its collection of case studies are Animal Science Cases and Food Science and Nutrition Cases. The titles have been launched to answer the need for practical, educational resources in these subject areas. CABI Cases are backed by CABI's longstanding expertise in research and publishing in agriculture, the environment, and the applied life sciences.
Posted 5 March 2024
Paper mills are a real threat to the integrity of the scholarly record. Collective effort is needed because no individual stakeholder can solve this problem alone.
Posted 6 February 2024
Cactus Communications has partnered with Elsevier to make over 19 million research article abstracts available on R Discovery. This collaboration will allow the global research community to access all of Elsevier's high-quality content in one place.
Posted 6 February 2024
December was a busy month for Taylor & Francis. On 4 December, it announced it was adding publisher Future Science Group to its portfolio and on 15 December that it would offer streamlined access to cited articles by integrating with GetFTR (Get Full Text Research).
Posted 2 January 2024
This latest strategic collaboration with Dimensions—it already has an integration with EndNote—increases the discoverability of research seminars and further connects them to the scholarly ecosystem.
Posted 2 January 2024
Enhanced Publications integrates multimedia assets with select journals, augmenting the learning experience
Posted 2 January 2024
The strategy update coincides with generative AI enhancements to its flagship product, Westlaw Precision
Posted 5 December 2023
Technology from Sage has released its third Librarian Futures report exploring the current librarian skills landscape and identifying areas for further development.
Posted 5 December 2023
Elsevier's Datasets help accelerate digital transformation at scale in a variety of applications, including generative AI and predictive modeling
Posted 5 December 2023
The acquisition of scite further enhances Research Solutions' product offerings and provides cross-selling opportunities to scite's consistently growing B2C customer base of approximately 21,000 active subscribers, as well as its diverse B2B customer base of corporate entities, leading academic institutions, and government agencies.
Posted 5 December 2023
Launched as a pilot in January 2023, Path to Open is a delayed OA model where new books are made available to supporting libraries upon publication and become OA after 3 years.
Posted 7 November 2023
Sage has unveiled a literary resource hub aimed at countering the rise of online misinformation, disinformation, and deceptive content.
Posted 7 November 2023
The new division is designed to enhance professional development and educational skills for businesses, organizations and individuals
Posted 7 November 2023
IFLA has been informed of the decision to withdraw the invitation to hold the 2024 World Library and Information Congress in Dubai.
Posted 3 October 2023
Trained on Getty Images' world-class creative content, Generative AI by Getty Images allows customers to explore the power of generative AI with full protection and usage rights.
Posted 3 October 2023
Company embarks on projects to determine how GenAI can enhance search discovery and content creation while avoiding "hallucinations" and spurious information.
Posted 3 October 2023
The agreement means Crossref and Retraction Watch will combine to publicly distribute data about tens of thousands of retracted research papers and grow the service together. It also provides sustainability to Retraction Watch's work.
Posted 3 October 2023
STM have joined 26 organizations representing thousands of creative professionals around the world, including the academic publishing sector, news, entertainment, magazine, and book publishing companies released Global Principles for Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Posted 3 October 2023
This is it! The last Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp this year. On 11 October, you can brush up on taxonomies in SharePoint, see taxonomies in action and learn more about SKOS taxonomies.
Posted 3 October 2023
The rebranding will start with Refinitiv Workspace becoming LSEG Workspace.
Posted 5 September 2023
Paramount Global and private equity firm KKR signed a definitive agreement for KKR to acquire Simon & Schuster for $1.62 billion in an all-cash transaction.
Posted 5 September 2023
Acquisition will accelerate the adoption of Patron Point Software as the go-to marketing automation platform for libraries
Posted 5 September 2023
All three awards are open to individuals or groups from anywhere in the world. Nominations for all three 2023 awards must reach UKeiG by 6 pm GMT on Friday 29 September 2023.
Posted 1 August 2023
"Pledge to Open" Aims to Publish 70 Open Access Books on Global Issues Through Innovative Collective Funding Pilot
Posted 1 August 2023
Responding to growing call for regulation of AI technologies, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI formed the Frontier Model Forum
Posted 1 August 2023
Open Advances will encompass a range of disciplines, focus on global challenges, and unlock Open Access by never charging authors a fee to publish
Posted 4 July 2023
Using the same infrastructure that powers ITHAKA's nonprofit services JSTOR and Portico, institutions can now increase the reach and usefulness of their local digital collections, secure access for generations to come and further the mission they share with one another and ITHAKA to improve access to knowledge worldwide.
Posted 4 July 2023
Embedding generative AI will enable new possibilities for academic conversational discovery
Posted 4 July 2023
IFLA's World Library & Information Congress will be held in Dubai, UAE, 19-23 August 2024
Posted 20 June 2023
System Pro is a new AI-powered search engine designed to be the most trustworthy, transparent way for researchers and doctors to quickly find, synthesize and contextualize scientific literature
Posted 6 June 2023
New tools gather, analyze, compare and deliver insights from more than 140 million trademark records and more than 6.2 million trademark office and court decisions.
Posted 6 June 2023
Wiley extended its partnership with online library Perlego to offer higher education students around the world access to digital books. The partnership, which began in 2019, will extend for four years, through February 2027.
Posted 6 June 2023
In Boston, bus riders can now access free digital 'pop-up' libraries in Boston and there's no card required.
Posted 15 May 2023
The browser extension is designed to encourage library usage by users who start their research with a web search engine
Posted 2 May 2023
Clarivate names three new business leaders and Wiley adds an OA supporter
Posted 2 May 2023
Oakley Capital and Bain Capital Credit are investing in the combined business
Posted 2 May 2023
Adding international news media content extends and deepens the existing, decade-long cooperation between WELT and Bloomberg, as well as Insider and Bloomberg.
Posted 4 April 2023
Legal researchers now have access to real-time updates on Westlaw, which replaces the time-consuming taks of scouring the UK Supreme Cpirt website and adds expert editorial case analysis and content sets unique to Westlaw UK.
Posted 4 April 2023
Recognizing that some papers can have hundreds, and in rare cases, thousands of authors, PubMed is now streamlining the display of lengthy author lists in search results.
Posted 4 April 2023
The Company of Biologists will be planting a tree for each Research Article and Review article published in its five journals, as well as preserving ancient woodland to recognise the important work of all peer reviewers.
Posted 4 April 2023
Join taxonomy experts for a half-day virtual boot camp covering the basics of taxonomy creation on 26 April 2023.
Posted 4 April 2023
The acquisition further enhances PatentSight, LexisNexis flagship IP analytics solution.
Posted 7 March 2023
The Sustainable Development Knowledge Cooperative is being launched in partnership with Impact Science, a brand of Cactus Communications (CACTUS).
Posted 7 March 2023
The Global Access Program (GAP) is designed to increase access to and adoption of PID services and infrastructure for communities beyond the Global North.
Posted 7 March 2023
The next virtual Boot Camp is 22 March 2023
Posted 7 March 2023
The King Salman Center for Disability Research (KSCDR) joined ScienceOpen in January 2023, increasing the content available in disability studies by adding hundreds of articles, books, and book chapters on its new collection.
Posted 7 February 2023
JSTOR, part of the non-profit ITHAKA, and a cohort of leading university presses announced Path to Open, a program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that bring diverse perspectives and research to millions of people.
Posted 7 February 2023
IFLA, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, have published the latest update of the IFLA Trend Report, co-authored by the emerging leaders who attended IFLA's 2022 World Library and Information Congress.
Posted 7 February 2023
The American Psychological Association (APA) and edX, a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc., announced APA as the newest member of the global edX partner network and the launch of its first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
Posted 3 January 2023
In the "Patents4Science" project, four Leibniz institutes joined forces to build an information infrastructure for the easy use of patent knowledge in science.
Posted 3 January 2023
ChatGPT has taken the world by storm and excited the imaginations of its millions of users, who find innovative applications from which ChatGPT learns. Educators and librarians worry that text generated by ChatGPT and similar programs will encourage plagiarism and make it more difficult to detect.
Posted 3 January 2023
The UK electronic information Group (UKeiG) is delighted to announce its online CPD course programme for the first quarter of 2023.
Posted 14 December 2022
Ford's new online Heritage Vault now offers a more comprehensive digital archive collection following the addition of more than 1,600 new photos showing every car produced in the U.K.
Posted 9 December 2022
Health Open Research expands the former AMRC publishing platform to open up medical research globally
Posted 6 December 2022
On 7 November 2022, OCLC and Clarivate issued separate press releases announcing the settlement of OCLC's lawsuit against Clarivate, originally filed in June 2022.
Posted 6 December 2022
CHORUS announced on 21 November 2022 that it will create a Preprint Dashboard and Reporting Service to identify related funders, datasets, reuse licenses, ORCID identifiers, and links to published articles on publisher sites and government public access repositories.
Posted 6 December 2022
The capability for scite users to ask research questions in plain language and get answers directly from the full text of research articles is the premise of scite's new "Ask a Question" feature.
Posted 6 December 2022
Publishing houses plan to cooperate to help accelerate the transformation towards open access and research
Posted 1 November 2022
The two tertiary education sector bodies officially join forces from 4 October 2022.
Posted 1 November 2022
The new interface for Gale Business: Insights provides increases access to tools and databases on one platform, improving research outcomes for students, researhers and faculty.
Posted 1 November 2022
eLife decided to end accept/reject decisions following peer review, opting to emphasise the public peer review of preprints, restoring author autonomy and promoting the assessment of scientists based on what rather than where they publish.
Posted 1 November 2022
This massive open dataset now brings the entirety of the Archive's international television news holdings to selections from 98 channels across 50 countries and territories, in 35 languages and dialects, spanning 20 years of content.
Posted 4 October 2022
The reference manager was built for collaborative research teams looking to drive organization and collaboration at scale.
Posted 4 October 2022
Virtual Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp takes place on Wednesday 12 October 2022.
Posted 4 October 2022
Metadata and the metadata services that describe library collections are critical in supporting content discovery, knowledge creation, and libraries' public missions. Metadata describing library collections is not typically copyrightable, and should be considered freely shareable and reusable under most circumstances. However, some industry players restrict libraries' rights to use such metadata through contractual terms and market influence. Such restrictive activity is out of alignment with libraries' needs and public, not-for-profit/educational missions.
Posted 15 September 2022
The Getty Trust commits $30 million to digitize the Johnson Publishing Company archive, which features more than 4 million prints and negatives that chronicle 20th-century Black life.
Posted 6 September 2022
Oxford University Press announced the migration of its book content to Oxford Academic—the online platform for its academic research—and, separately, announced the expansion of its agreement with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) to make its content more accessible.
Posted 6 September 2022
In an 8 page memo titled "Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research", issued on 25 August 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy directed federal agencies to begin adopting policies that would make taxpayer-funded research free and accessible to the general public.
Posted 6 September 2022
The tribute is in 3 languages, authored by marie lebert and illustrated by Denis Renard
Posted 26 August 2022
The IFLA/UNESCO Public Library Manifesto proclaims UNESCO's belief in the public library as a living force for education, culture and information, and as an essential agent for the fostering of peace and welfare through the minds of all people.
Posted 2 August 2022
In recognition of the challenges around information contract management, user access and entitlements, data licensing and copyright compliance, Couranto and CCC (Copyright Clearance Center) are partnering to further advance the working knowledge related to copyright compliance through practical information solutions.
Posted 2 August 2022
Springshare and PowerNotes announced that the LibChat library chat is now seamlessly integrated with PowerNotes, a tool designed specifically to manage the entire academic research process from discovery through writing.
Posted 2 August 2022
Bloomsbury Publishing, which acquired ABC-Clio and Libraries Unlimited in January 2022, has relaunched its Cite Them Right site.
Posted 5 July 2022
On June 13, 2022, OCLC filed suit against Clarivate PLC and its subsidiaries, Clarivate Analytics (US) LLP, Ex Libris, and ProQuest in the United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio.
Posted 16 June 2022
The database will offer equitable perspectives on U.K. and Ireland current events.
Posted 7 June 2022
Google now links search results directly to records of print books in hundreds of libraries using WorldCat data
Posted 3 May 2022
Recognizing that information these days comes to us from an enormous number of sources and different directions, Google's new fact checking features helps searchers sort out what information is credible and what isn't.
Posted 5 April 2022
Bite-sized ILI is back for 2022! Save the date of Wednesday, 11 May 2022, for Internet Librarian International's latest half day of learning and knowledge exchange.
Posted 5 April 2022
The integration of Scopus data will support the monitoring and evaluation of Germany's transition towards open access.
Posted 5 April 2022
CASRAI (Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information), founded in 2006 as an international, non-profit membership organisation with the main aim to reduce the administrative burden associated with, the process of collecting information from researchers during the research lifecycle ceased operations in 2020. . The future of its resources are now secured through arrangements with CODATA, euroCRIS and NISO.
Posted 5 April 2022
A new partnership between IOP Publishing and Get Full Text Research aims to make access to information easier for researchers.
Posted 5 April 2022
The Open Preservation Foundation published, on 4 April 2022, a new resource that enables users to compare accepted and preferred file formats at a high level across different types of cultural and scientific institutions across the world.
Posted 4 April 2022
EthicsFinder, hosted by Australian Catholic University, features expertly curated information on topics of interest to researchers in the field of ethics.
Posted 1 March 2022
The acquisition includes Informa's full portfolio of specialist brands which includes the Citeline suite of products, Trialtrove, Sitetrove, Pharmaprojects and Citeline branded products, as well as Biomedtracker, Clinerion, Datamonitor Healthcare, Pink Sheet, Scrip, Skipta, and TrialScope. The acquisition is expected to complete within the first half of 2022, subject to any relevant regulatory clearances. Its publications and data are well represented in Dow Jones Factiva and LexisNexis
Posted 1 March 2022
For the foodies and food researchers among us, EBSCO now has extensive full-text coverage of food and nutrition resources available
Posted 1 March 2022
The updated Trend Report 2021 is based on ideas submitted by emerging library leaders ahead of the 2021 World Library and Information Congress to be held in Dublin, Ireland, in July 2022 and features 20 suggested trends.
Posted 1 February 2022
The new report provides new insights for building a successful AI ecosystem, based on data from Clarivate databases.
Posted 5 January 2022
VR experience demonstrates benefits of immersive learning for soft skills training in higher education.
Posted 5 January 2022
In its latest list, Clarivate identifies the one in 1,000 "citation elite". Although researchers based in the USA dominate, China has nearly doubled its share of highly cited researchers in four years.
Posted 7 December 2021
The features are designed to help conference organizers around the globe provide advanced audience engagement, combat digital fatigue, and improve the marketability of their event.
Posted 7 December 2021
Lean Library, a browser extension from SAGE Publishing that delivers library services into the patron's workflow, is partnering with TDNet, provider of TDNet Discover, a unified library discovery and content management solution. Together, Lean Library and TDNet will provide libraries with the ability to deliver their library search results to patrons ‘in their workflow' on academic resources and websites such as Google and Wikipedia.
Posted 2 November 2021
COPIM funding pilot for OA monographs gathers steam
Posted 2 November 2021
The latest MUSE in Focus: Humanity's "Code Red" on Climate Change is now available
Posted 5 October 2021
Smart academic seminar platform creates an accelerated and early route to communicating scholarly research
Posted 7 September 2021
In a year of exceptional growth of the ISSN Network, the ISSN International Centre is delighted to announce the opening of the 93rd ISSN National Centre in Lima, Peru, on August 24th, 2021, almost exactly 200 years after the founding of the National Library of Peru, which houses the Centre.
Posted 7 September 2021
Even if you know nothing about the topic of "Adjacent Cell Marker Lateral Spillover Compensation and Reinforcement for Multiplexed Images", this research article from Front. Immunol., 05 July 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.652631 authored by Yunhao Bai1,2†, Bokai Zhu1,3†, Xavier Rovira-Clave1, Han Chen1, Maxim Markovic1, Chi Ngai Chan4, Tung-Hung Su1,5, David R. McIlwain1, Jacob D. Estes4, Leeat Keren1,6, Garry P. Nolan1*‡ and Sizun Jiang1,7*‡ will make you laugh if you ready only the note about author contributions:
Posted 12 August 2021
In relation to Clarivate's previously announced acquisition (the "Acquisition") of ProQuest ("ProQuest"), on July 28, 2021, Clarivate received a second request for documents and other information from the Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC"), which is reviewing the Acquisition pursuant to authority under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976. In view of the FTC's second request, on July 28, 2021, Clarivate and the equity holders of ProQuest (collectively, the "Seller Group") entered into an amendment (the "Amendment") to their Transaction Agreement dated May 15, 2021, extending the outside date for completion of the Acquisition from November 8, 2021 to December 31, 2021, subject to further extension. Although the Company hopes to be in a position to complete the proposed Acquisition in the second half of 2021, the Company and the Seller Group each have the option to extend the new outside date to April 29, 2022. (https://ir.clarivate.com/news-events/press-releases/news-details/2021/Clarivate-Announces-Private-Exchange-Offers-for-Two-Series-of-Notes-Open-to-Certain-Investors/default.aspx)
Posted 10 August 2021
As part of a long-term strategy by Clarivate to remove friction from IP management processes by connecting the IP ecosystem, Clavivate Plc plans to integrate its trademark portfolio databases. It says this will reduce manual data entry efforts to help customers save time and increase data quality.
Posted 3 August 2021
Two Google initiatives over the past few months resonate particularly well with information professionals. Google Scholar added a "Public access" section to track and manage public access mandates and Google Search can now detect when a topic is rapidly evolving and warn people to check back late.
Posted 6 July 2021
Web Audio API enables the creation and manipulation of music and sounds, directly in the browser
Posted 6 July 2021
CLIR has become the administrative home of the International Internet Preservation Consortium with the move of its senior program officer, Olga Holownia, to the CLIR staff. Founded in 2003, the IIPC is an international organization of member institutions from more than 35 countries that work to collect, preserve, and make accessible knowledge from the global web. Its activities include providing a forum for the sharing of knowledge about web archiving, collaborating on research and development projects, funding technical, curatorial, and educational projects, managing working groups, and convening the annual Web Archiving Conference and General Assembly.
Posted 1 June 2021
Quartex, an Adam Matthew Digital SaaS platform, announced the launch of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) Transcription, which creates automated, fully searchable transcriptions of manuscript assets with a single click.
Posted 1 June 2021
DeepDyve announced the availability of the DeepDyve Digital Library, a fully integrated platform aimed at helping research organisations discover, access and manage research papers. The Digital Library is a one-stop platform designed for small to medium-sized teams and organizations needing easy and affordable solutions for reading and organizing scientific papers. Although the press release states that this product doesn't need information professionals or IT staff, it should be on the radar screen of librarians, particularly those in smaller, poorly-funded institutions and companies.
Posted 4 May 2021
An April 2021 Working Paper (2021-6), published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, details some results of investing in public libraries. Researchers from Montana State University, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Miami University investigated outcomes of local government spending on public libraries in regard to library resources, patron usage, student achievement and local housing prices.
Posted 4 May 2021
The goal of Google News Initiative is to support news organizations around the world to not only ensure that quality journalism endures but also to fight against misinformation and disinformation. It provides training and funding towards that end. Three recent projects benefit not only journalism but also the essential need for access to information that is trustworthy, reliable and complete.
Posted 6 April 2021
An unprecedented digitization program makes out-of-print works by George L. Hersey, Richard Freedman, Mark Jarzombek, Moshe Safdie, Peter Rowe, Galen Cranz, Arthur Pulos, Gilbert Hubert, and others now available as ebooks for the first time.
Posted 6 April 2021
The European Commission launched Open Research Europe, a publishing platform for scientific papers that will be accessible to everyone. The platform will present the results of research funded by Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme for 2021-2027, and its predecessor, Horizon 2020.
Posted 6 April 2021
The first module of Gale's new Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence explores the history of British Intelligence during an era of global conflict and careful diplomacy, of the rise and fall of political extremes, of great strides in technology and of vast change in the everyday lives of people around the world.
Posted 6 April 2021
The United Nations SDG Publishers Compact, established at the end of 2020, encourages scholarly publishers in their activities to speed up progress towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Posted 1 March 2021
RBmedia, the largest audiobook producer in the world, has expanded its Spanish-language content by acquiring Booka's audiobook publishing business and its full catalog of Spanish language titles.
Posted 1 March 2021
Need to take a bite out of your taxonomy efforts? Taxonomy Bootcamp London, a sister conference to Internet Librarian International, is hosting a Bite-sized version on 2 March 2021.
Posted 2 February 2021
ProQuest announced in mild-January the launch of ProQuest One Business, which it describes as a new solution designed to support the unique teaching and learning needs of business faculty and students, both at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Posted 2 February 2021
Yewno, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence solutions, announced the enhancement of the Yewno Discover research platform to include news content.
Posted 5 January 2021
Suite of solutions designed to improve patient-centered outcomes, increase patient engagement and support value-based care
Posted 5 January 2021
IFLA's Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (CPDWL) Section and New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) announced the winners of their library meme contest.
Posted 12 December 2020
Partnership Offers Libraries in Germany More Options when Considering Adopting the FOLIO Library Services Platform
Posted 1 December 2020
The Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) Inspec database has reached over 20 million indexed records throughout its 50-year history.
Posted 1 December 2020
The London Book Fair Moves to June 2021, with Andy Ventris Announced as New Director, with the aim of bringing the publishing industry together in person for first time since the outbreak of Covid-19.
Posted 16 November 2020
Law firms around the world can now expand their legal research by uploading their own documents to vLex Cloud and combine their knowledge with vLex's global collection of legal information to create a research resource personalised to the needs of the firm and their clients.
Posted 3 November 2020
The Yewno Discover platform now integrates with the Ex Libris Primo discovery service to offer libraries the opportunity to create additional exploration paths for their students.
Posted 3 November 2020
The Next Generation Library Publishing project has published a report that seeks to improve the publishing pathways and choices available to authors, editors and readers
Posted 3 November 2020
WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organization) launched WIPO Lex-Judgments, a new database that provides free access to leading judicial decisions related to intellectual property law, worldwide.
Posted 6 October 2020
Elsevier published a landmark report on The Power of Research to Advance the SDGs. It strengthens the understanding of the global SDG efforts and identifies the lack of sex and gender dimension across SDG research.
Posted 6 October 2020
The Educational Publishers Enforcement Group (EPEG) publishers, consisting of Cengage, Elsevier, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill and Pearson, have obtained a Preliminary Injunction from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against 63 eBook websites that sell illegal, unlicensed eBooks using the functionalities of Google and Microsoft.
Posted 6 October 2020
A freely available toolkit helps academic book authors to better understand open access book publishing.
Posted 6 October 2020
Clarivate Plc launched the Arabic Citation Index (ARCI), the world's first local language citation index.
Posted 1 September 2020
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and Stanford Libraries have released a public, open platform for the Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME). It will be one of the world's largest online archives of Middle Eastern and North African artifacts. The DLME aggregates, through an ongoing program, digital records of published materials, documents, maps, artifacts, audiovisual recordings, and more from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Posted 1 September 2020
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) and OpenAPC are expanding the OpenAPC dataset to support the inclusion of Book Processing Charges (BPCs)
Posted 4 August 2020
Clarivate Plc , known in library circules for the Web of Science, Cortellis, Derwent, CompuMark, MarkMonitor and Techstreet, signed a definitive agreement to combine with CPA Global, a global leader in intellectual property software and tech-enabled services.
Posted 4 August 2020
Elsevier released the 2019 CiteScore values, its latest assessment of thousands of peer-reviewed research journals, book series, conference proceedings and trade publications covered in Scopus.
Posted 7 July 2020
The UK electronic information Group (UKeiG) is now publishing its eLucidate journal on a new web platform, using the Public Knowledge Project's Open Journal Systems (OJS) hosted by the University of Alberta.
Posted 7 July 2020
Library innovation conference highlights 2020 theme of ‘Strategies, solutions, stories, and strength'
Posted 9 March 2020
Get it Loud in Libraries brings live music to local libraries, large and small.
Posted 19 September 2018
A Storify of Tweets using the #ILI2017 hashtag on Day 2 of Internet Librarian International.
Posted 20 October 2017
A Storify of Tweets using the #ILI2017 hashtag on Day 1 of Internet Librarian International.
Posted 19 October 2017
Speaker submissions sought for the Library Innovation Conference, with the theme of 'Super-Powered Libraries: innovation, influence, impact'.
Posted 24 February 2017
Streaming videos illustrate social science research methods and statistics
Posted 5 November 2016
Stuart Hamilton, Mia Ridge and Jan Holmquist to speak at Internet Librarian International, the library innovation conference.
Posted 18 July 2016
New conference covering all aspects of taxonomy to take place alongside ILI.
Posted 18 April 2016
Free access to a range of resources to help fight Zika virus.
Posted 11 March 2016
Education delivered via inexpensive smartphones can support new students, ensure lifelong learning, and transform the lives of girls and women.
Posted 10 March 2016
Full-text articles on nature.com will continue to be made available to read and share as content sharing initiative becomes permanent
Posted 21 December 2015
Integration aims to enrich current products and innovate new services
Posted 21 December 2015
Harvard teams up with Ravel Law to provide free access to digitised US case law.
Posted 21 December 2015
WSJ City will be free at launch.
Posted 10 October 2015
New platform will help devices connect via the cloud.
Posted 10 October 2015
Deal expected to be finalised later in 2015.
Posted 10 October 2015
The growth of connected devices is already bringing organisational and public economic benefits in the UK, according to a new report from Cisco.
Posted 21 April 2014
Find out more about speakers and sessions developed to help you understand how your users search, and how to respond by building and implementing an effective search strategy in your organisation.
Posted 3 April 2014
AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel drive industry ecosystem to accelerate more reliable access to big data, and drive the development of the Internet of Things
Posted 3 April 2014
The New York Times digital subscription model has been announced, and widely debated.
Posted 18 March 2011
Copyright law in Europe is evolving at a 'dazzling pace' and more change is expected.
Posted 18 March 2011
French authors and publishers have failed to reach an agreement regarding electronic rights.
Posted 17 March 2011
The European Information Association has announced the winners of its awards for Excellence in European Information Provision.
Posted 16 March 2011
The microblogging service celebrates its birthday by blogging some boggling statistics.
Posted 15 March 2011
Metadata from ECONIS—the online catalogue for the German National Library of Economics—will be searchable through EBSCO Discovery Service
Posted 9 December 2010
ProQuest and Hatfield House team up to bring private and political documents gathered by Elizabeth I's advisors to the web
Posted 8 December 2010
Library Systems Manager from University of Huddersfield selected for honour
Posted 1 December 2010
Provides information on investment and acquisition opportunities in China
Posted 1 December 2010
New product line will expand ebook offering on SpringerLink
Posted 1 December 2010
'Instant Previews' provides a graphic overview of search results; 'Refine' is 'a power tool for data wranglers'
Posted 16 November 2010