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"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" - or, why is Shibboleth good for us?
2 May 08:
This year's UKSG Conference in Torquay once again raised the issue of the HE community's move towards using Shibboleth as the primary authentication method for electronic resources. It set Steven Sharp thinking about the frustrations expressed by many struggling to access electronic resources over the last few years.
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Breakout session: Agents, publishers, and added value: how do libraries view the performance of subscription agents and journal publishers?
2 May 08:
Rick Anderson, University of Utah, & Jill Emery, University of Texas at Austin, presented data from a US survey asking respondents to rate subscription agents and publishers on a variety of customer service measures. In general, respondents tended to favour using agents over direct subscription arrangements with publishers.
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Breakout session: How to make your IR effective as a publishing platform for grey literature
2 May 08:
Is a post-and-hope strategy good enough for IRs? Or might it damage your institution's reputation and fail your stakeholders? Based on OECD's experience, this breakout session tried to establish what might be a check-list of things to do to make an institutional IR a success for all stakeholders: authors, readers, funders, administrators and librarians.
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Future of the academic library explored in Education Guardian
22 Apr 08:
An eight-page special supplement was published in the Education Guardian in association with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) on 22 April 2008 examining the achievements of academic libraries in the UK, assessing current challenges and looking at how these might shape the future of university libraries.
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Oxford Online and MLA broker further four year agreement
23 Apr 08:
A total of 144 out of 149 public library authorities across England have signed up to a new four-year National Agreement between Oxford University Press and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Partnership (MLA).
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CANS Trust to supply online legal information to libraries
25 Apr 08:
CANS Trust, the legal publishing charity, has been successful in its bid to the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) to supply online legal information at agreed prices to library authorities in England.
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PLS Open Meeting & Annual Review 2008
9 Apr 08:
The Publishers Licensing Society Open Meeting is taking place at 2 pm on 4 July 2008 at The Institute of Physics in London.
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Hiroshi Kawamura of the Daisy Consortium at the Joint ITU and G3ict Forum
21 Apr 08:
At the Joint ITU and G3ict Forum 2008 on "The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Challenges and Opportunities for ICT Standards", held in Geneva on April 21, Hiroshi Kawamura, President of the DAISY Consortium, gave a presentation.
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Dow Jones acquire Generate
24 Apr 08:
On 17 April 2008, Dow Jones & Company announced it had acquired Generate for an undisclosed price. Generate's content and technology will be integrated across all Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group products.
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Thieme updates institutional repositories policy
25 Apr 08:
Thieme Publishers has announced that it has updated its policy regarding institutional repositories. The publisher is now a SHERPA RoMEO Blue publisher.
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EBSCO expands Shibboleth authentication service into Germany
28 Apr 08:
EBSCO Publishing has expanded its Shibboleth authentication service to Germany. EBSCO worked with the German Research Network (DFN) to enable universities to access their EBSCOhost research databases through Shibboleth authentication.
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Coutts Information Services e4books accreditation
29 Apr 08:
Coutts Information Services obtained BIC's e4books accreditation four months ahead of schedule in January 2008.
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EMpact forms partnerships with Royal Society of Medicine and Royal Society of Chemistry
18 Apr 08:
EMpact Sales, the publisher representation group of the EBSCO Information Services division, has recently entered into agreements with The Royal Society of Medicine Press and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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dawsonera reaches 50,000 titles
25 Apr 08:
Having launched with 30,000 titles, dawsonera now has 50,000 titles with more on the way. Most are new and recently published titles, with only a minority back list.
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Nature announces publishing initiatives in Asia-Pacific region
18 Apr 08:
Nature Publishing Group has announced five new co-publishing agreements for 2009 in Japan and China and the launch of the NPG Asia Materials website with the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
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BooksoniX signs Sandstone Press
11 Apr 08:
Headfast, an electronic publishing and software services company, has announced that Sandstone Press, Highland-based publishers of contemporary non-fiction and educational books, has signed up to their BooksoniX service.
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eHarlequin.com
24 Apr 08:
Harlequin sold more than 130 million books in 2007. Its writers generates more than 120 titles each month in 29 languages. From April, Harlequin is offering a few of its most popular series online and ready for browsing.
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Thomson Innovation with added business and news content
22 Apr 08:
Thomson Reuters has announced the addition of business and news content to Thomson Innovation, which now combines business and news information with comprehensive patent data and scientific literature.
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OCLC offers Digital Archive service for long-term storage
15 Apr 08:
OCLC is now providing a Digital Archive service for long-term storage of originals and master files from libraries' digital collections. OCLC has integrated the service to fit typical workflows for building and managing digital collections. The service will provide automated monitoring and reports on stored digital collections.
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OECD adds new features and functionality to OECD.Stat
24 Apr 08:
As part of the continuing programme of work to make OECD databases more accessible and user friendly, OECD.Stat now incorporates new features. This is part of a larger project to improve the services around OECD statistics in the OECD iLibrary which is replacing SourceOECD later this year.
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New database available from EBSCO
23 Apr 08:
The aim of a new database from EBSCO Publishing, Canadian Points of View Reference Centre, is to provide Canadian students and researchers with a source of balanced information about an array of current social and political issues.
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British Library Direct Plus: a new service
16 Apr 08:
TDNet and the British Library have developed a subscription-based service, the British Library Direct Plus, combining TDNet's federated search and post search analysis with article level data that allows the British Library to provide enhanced online item selection and ordering to document supply customers.
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Cambridge University Library to use WebFeat federated search service
1 May 08:
Cambridge University Library has launched the WebFeat federated search service to improve access to the University's collection of electronic resources.
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University of Pittsburgh chooses AquaBrowser
25 Apr 08:
AquaBrowser, the independent discovery platforms for libraries, has been selected by the University of Pittsburgh's University Library System.
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Southampton Solent University to use Ex Libris products
23 Apr 08:
Southampton Solent University has chosen the Aleph integrated library system and the Primo discovery and delivery solution and also plans to implement the SFX Open URL link resolver, the MetaLib gateway and metasearch solution, and the Verde e-resource management system, all from Ex Libris.
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Stanford and Deep Web Technologies partner on federated search
16 Apr 08:
Stanford University Libraries has selected Deep Web Technologies to create a federated search solution that will simplify access to the Libraries' online resources and create a new access point for the university's own digitised content.
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NPG biomedical journals available in INASP partner countries
22 Apr 08:
Nature Publishing Group and the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications are to provide free access to more than 65 Nature journals for a number of developing world countries.
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SAGE to launch ICAN: Infant, Child, & Adolescent Nutrition
25 Apr 08:
SAGE will be launching ICAN: Infant, Child, & Adolescent Nutrition, a multidisciplinary journal for clinicians in paediatric nutrition, in January 2009.
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Launch of the International Encyclopedia of Communication
18 Apr 08:
Wiley-Blackwell and the International Communication Association have announced the publication of the new International Encyclopedia of Communication, a 12-volume work containing more than 1,300 newly-commissioned entries covering the scholarship, evidence, and methodology of communication research.
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American Astronomical Society to archive journals with Portico
22 Apr 08:
Portico has signed an agreement with the American Astronomical Society to preserve its four online journals.
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Emerald acquires Journal of Applied Accounting Research
21 Apr 08:
Emerald Group Publishing Limited has recently acquired the Journal of Applied Accounting Research.
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New appointments
2 May 08:
Charles B Lowry, Vanaja Ramarao, Jennifer Capshaw, Helen Cooke, Hazel Woodward and Sue McKnight have all taken on new responsibilities.
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Bradford Libraries win the CILIP / LiS Libraries Change Lives Award
28 Apr 08:
Bradford Libraries is the winner of the CILIP / LiS Libraries Change Lives Award. Shortlisted from 37 library-based projects across the UK, their project aim was to bring people with learning disabilities closer to the wider community.
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Emerald and EFMD awards
24 Apr 08:
Emerald Group Publishing Limited and the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) are sponsoring the annual Emerald / EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards.
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