ProQuest to Acquire Coutts Information Services and MyiLibrary from Ingram Content Group; EBSCO Information Services continues collaboration with OASIS; BDS Partners with PTFS Europe; Max Planck Digital Library study calculates redeployment of funds in Open Access; UK’s first collaborative publishing consortium makes open access transition easier; Penn Libraries Launches ‘OPenn’ Digital Resources Online Platform; 11,000 New Items Available Online From The World’s Largest Archive of British Art; New Gold Standard Established For Open And Reproducible Research; Landmark partnership between Total Boox and BlueInk Review offers notable self-published books to libraries; Elsevier collaborates with Friedrich-Althoff Consortium to create digital scientific literature infrastructure, ‘Archive of Berlin'; Ex Libris Acquires oMbiel, Establishes Mobile Campus Solutions Division
ProQuest to Acquire Coutts Information Services and MyiLibrary from Ingram Content Group
“ProQuest has signed an agreement to acquire Coutts Information Services from Ingram Content Group, adding Coutts’ … expertise in collection development, broad catalog of print and digital titles, and platforms MyiLibrary and OASIS to ProQuest’s vast selection of ebooks and innovative technology framework. The move paves the way to combine Coutts’ acquisitions strengths with ProQuest’s inventive digital tools to deliver a superior end-to-end workflow across print and electronic. Ingram will play a continuing role in print fulfillment in North America, supporting ProQuest with its extensive print inventory, fast on-demand print capabilities and delivery network. The acquisition is expected to close within weeks…”
EBSCO Information Services continues collaboration with OASIS
Library Technology Guides reports that “following the upcoming acquisition of Coutts by ProQuest, EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) plans to continue its relationship with OASIS, enabling libraries to purchase its selection of more than 700,000 e-books through the OASIS platform. The company’s approach is for EBSCO titles to continue to be offered through all applicable purchase models, and for customer contracts with EBSCO to remain unaffected by the anticipated change in ownership of OASIS.
BDS Partners with PTFS Europe
Library Technology Guides also notes that “BDS and open source library management systems supplier PTFS Europe have struck a metadata supply deal that will see libraries working with PTFS Europe also able to benefit from BDS’s … metadata.
PTFSPTFS Europe was formed in 2007 and provides implementation, hosting and support services for the open source library systems Koha and Evergreen, Rebus:list for list management, WordPress for Libraries and the ArchivalWare digital repository. Its services are used by many academic, public, NHS, special and government libraries across the UK and the rest of Europe…”
Max Planck Digital Library study calculates redeployment of funds in Open Access
According to KnowledgeSpeak “the Max Planck Digital Library has put forward a study on the transformation of the subscription-driven system for scientific publications to an Open Access model. For the first time, quantitative parameters are presented showing that the liberation of scholarly literature is possible at no extra costs. The study is investigating the question whether the previously used subscription budgets would be sufficient to fund the Open Access publication charges and thus bring about a complete transition of academic publishing…”
UK’s first collaborative publishing consortium makes open access transition easier
KnowledgeSpeak also reports that “humanities scholars will now be able to benefit from a collaborative open access (OA) consortium agreement which means that authors will not have to pay to make their research open access. The publishing model – the first of its type in the UK – is being offered by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) following negotiations with Jisc.
Penn Libraries Launches ‘OPenn’ Digital Resources Online Platform
According to InfoDOCKET “some rare books and manuscripts from Penn Libraries can now be accessed online through the new OPenn digital resources website, http:/openn.library.upenn.edu.
The site provides digitized cultural heritage materials available as free cultural works that are accessible for use by anyone. The launch of OPenn is a major step in the Libraries’ strategic initiative to embrace open data and democratize access to information…”
11,000 New Items Available Online From The World’s Largest Archive of British Art
InfoDOCKET also reports that “audiences world-wide can now view Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s unpublished sketchbooks as the second wave of items for the Archives and Access project is made available on Tate’s website.
The project draws on the world’s largest archive of British Art – Tate Archive – and brings it together online with Tate’s art collection, making this one of the richest and most comprehensive digital art and archival resources in Europe…”
Open Access: New Gold Standard Established For Open And Reproducible Research
In addition, InfoDOCKET notes that “a group of Cambridge computer scientists have set a new gold standard for openness and reproducibility in research by sharing the more than 200GB of data and 20,000 lines of code behind their latest results – an unprecedented degree of openness in a peer-reviewed publication. The researchers hope that this new gold standard will be adopted by other fields, increasing the reliability of research results, especially for work which is publicly funded…”
Landmark partnership between Total Boox and BlueInk Review offers notable self-published books to libraries
No Shelf Required reports that “BlueInk Review has entered into a groundbreaking partnership with Total Boox, an ebook distributor to libraries, to offer select self-published titles for inclusion in library catalogs nationwide. This represents one of the first serious attempts at integrating vetted self-published titles into the mainstream operations of libraries across the county…
Elsevier collaborates with Friedrich-Althoff Consortium to create digital scientific literature infrastructure, ‘Archive of Berlin’
According to KnowledgeSpeak, “Elsevier has announced its collaboration with Berlin’s Charité, the Humboldt University (Humboldt-Universität), the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität) and the Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität), all part of the Friedrich-Althoff Consortium, to create a comprehensive digital scientific literature infrastructure, ‘Archive of Berlin’, aimed to further strengthen Berlin as a central location for research…”
Ex Libris Acquires oMbiel, Establishes Mobile Campus Solutions Division
Digital Shift reports that “Ex Libris has announced the acquisition of Wolverhampton, U.K.-based oMbiel, developer of the campusM and governmentM cloud-based mobile app solutions for universities and local government services, respectively. The company will be incorporated into Ex Libris as a new business unit, Ex Libris Mobile Campus Solutions, led by oMbiel founder and CEO Hugh Griffiths. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.