Charlie Rapple, UKSG Marketing Officer, introduces the new UKSG visual identity, which includes a new logo and is being launched to coincide with the journal's change of name from 'Serials' to 'Insights'.
The CLOCKSS Archive is forming a partnership with UKSG to preserve its e-journal and e-book content in CLOCKSS's network of redundant archive nodes.
UKSG is running a one-day seminar, 'Usage Statistics for Decision Making', on Thursday 2 February 2012 in London. This one-day seminar follows on from the 'Usage Statistics' training seminar, which has now been running successfully for several years.
The UK government has announced a commitment to making all publicly funded scientific research available in open-access journals.
Library and archive groups respond positively to progress on copyright limitations and exceptions at WIPO.
The UK government has announced £31 million for improving “high capacity networks, including JANET”.
AIP Publishing and Publishing Technology have announced a partnership to work on AIP’s Scitation platform, scheduled for launch in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Publishing Technology has announced that it is forming a partnership with the China National Publications Import and Export Corporation to deliver a digital publishing platform to supply content to Chinese libraries.
LM Information Delivery Group has opened a new office in Denmark and launched its LibERM service for e-resource management.
Nature Publishing Group has announced partnerships with Antibodypedia, an online searchable database, and Relay Technology Management.
ORCID has selected Semantico to help build the first phase of their worldwide registry for scholarly authors.
Cambridge Journals has announced a new Article Rental scheme, which will see single academic research articles being made available over a 24-hour period at a lower cost.
Wiley-Blackwell is now a participant in the CrossMark service from CrossRef.
Ex Libris has announced that the Get It Now service from Copyright Clearance Center will be available through Ex Libris discovery and delivery solutions.
EBSCO has released an EBSCOhost Android app ensuring that Android device users can acess EBSCOhost database content from wherever they happen to be.
BioOne has announced the official launch of BioOne Mobile, a website available to smartphone users.
TEMIS and Nuxeo have announced the integration of semantic content enrichment on the Nuxeo platform through TEMIS’ Luxid platform.
Content from the French open access publishing platform OpenEdition will be searchable through EBSCO Discovery Service, and Saarland University and State Library in Germany has selected the service.
JISC Collections has announced that it has agreed the terms of a license to renew access for the next five years to Elsevier’s journal content, via their SciVerse ScienceDirect platform.
Research Libraries UK has welcomed the deals that JISC Collections has secured with Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the UK Higher Education sector.
Research and Markets has published its annual report looking at e-book usage in US libraries.
The m-libraries support project is part of JISC's Mobile Infrastructure for Libraries programme running from November 2011 until September 2012.
OCLC is launching the OCLC WorldShare platform, which is intended to facilitate collaboration and app-sharing across the library community, so that libraries can combine library-built applications, partner-built applications and OCLC-built applications.
The University of Bradford and the Royal Asiatic Society are the latest libraries to have been added to SUNCAT, and users are being encouraged to take part in a SUNCAT user satisfaction survey.
Nine European institutions have recently joined the early adopter programme for the Ex Libris Alma library management service.
ECS Publisher Mary Yess announced that The Electrochemical Society has awarded the hosting of its ECS Digital Library to Stanford University's HighWire Press.
The German National Library of Science and Technology in Hannover has selected Ex Libris Rosetta to preserve its digital collections.
The Maney Publishing journals collections are now available for 2012.
Renew Training will be running its 'Understanding E-Journal Technology' course for publishers and intermediaries under the ALPSP banner from 2012.
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of four new publishers in its digital preservation archive. They are the Association of Research Libraries, Ammons Scientific, The Laser Institute of America, and The Japan Institute of Heterocyclic Chemistry.
Oxford University Press has formed a new partnership with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to publish the 'Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies', and is launching a new title, 'Oxford Journal of Law and Religion', in 2012.
The Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice has chosen SAGE to publish the 'Journal of Drug Issues', beginning in January 2012.
A free pilot issue of 'The Current Digest of the Chinese Press' is available for download now.
'QScience Connect' has published its first articles on topics ranging from linguistics and food science to diabetes and an analysis of the sediments in streams on a Yemeni island.
The 'Journal of Management & Marketing in Healthcare', published by Maney, will be re-launched in 2012 under the new title 'International Journal of Healthcare Management'.
The Wellcome Library’s holdings of rare books related to the history of medicine is now being digitised by ProQuest and, beginning this month, is freely available to all users in the UK.
Portico has announced that Cambridge University Press will preserve its Cambridge Books Online content with Portico.
BioMed Central, which now publishes over 220 open access journals, has introduced a redesigned website.
Deanna Marcum has accepted the position of Managing Director, Ithaka S+R, and Bangor University has appointed Sue Hodges as University Librarian.