New funded shared service will help universities manage their e-resources
Knowledge Base+ is a new shared service from JISC Collections that aims to help UK libraries manage their e-resources more efficiently.
KB+ is being established...
Wolters Kluwer’s Member Executive Board Jack Lynch Resigns
Wolters Kluwer, announced today that Mr. J.J. Lynch, Jr., Member of the Executive Board, has accepted an offer to become CEO of a company...
Association of American Publishers and Google announce settlement agreement
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google today announced a settlement agreement that will provide access to publishers’ in-copyright books and journals digitized...
RLPC-Springer Science set for sale or refinancing-bankers
Private equity firms EQT and GIC Special Investments of Singapore are considering options to either sell or refinance the debt of their German academic...
Publishers announce roadblocks to CA’s Open Road to Free College Textbooks
Today, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) released a "knee-jerk" national press release announcing in panicky fashion their challenge to the notion that historic...
Wolters Kluwer Health and the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Expand Partnership
Wolters Kluwer Health is pleased to announce an expanded partnership with the University of Adelaide’s Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), a leading international producer of...
Comment available Oct. 10 on 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
To assist with coverage of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society, will issue a...
Sustainability Exchange – a new ground-breaking knowledge bank
Leading organisations from across the further and higher education sectors have joined forces to create the a single hub for sharing best practice in...
HathiTrust Research Center inaugurates first annual UnCamp
On September 10-11, 2012, the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) hosted its first annual HTRC UnCamp at Indiana University in Bloomington. The two-day event featured...
IE Library selects OCLC WorldShare Management Services
The IE Library serving IE Business School in Madrid and IE University Library in Segovia, Spain, has selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services as its...
Cengage Learning Appoints Julian Drinkall as President of Europe, Middle East, Africa and India...
Cengage Learning, a leading educational content, software and services company, today announces the appointment of Julian Drinkall to President and CEO, Europe, Middle East,...
Italian public library records added to WorldCat
OCLC has added the records of a group of more than 100 public libraries in the province of Trento, Italy, to WorldCat. This addition...