(April 23, 2024). Robert L. Maxwell has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Margaret Mann Citation, sponsored by OCLC and Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures. Maxwell is currently Special Collections and Ancient Studies Catalog Librarian at the Brigham Young University Library. The Margaret Mann Citation recognizes outstanding professional achievement in cataloging or classification for notable publications; outstanding contributions to professional cataloging associations; outstanding contribution to the technical improvement of cataloging and classification; and outstanding cont ..read more

(April 23, 2024). Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, announced that it has acquired Global QMS, Inc., known as Global Q, a provider of cloud-based solutions that enable life sciences clients to automate regulatory reporting and compliance management. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Global Q supports leading pharma, medtech and biotech companies by providing comprehensive access to linked and standardized workflow-ready data via its SaaS platform, Optiqs360 Digital. The platform includes MediGPT - WorkCenter™ and MediGPT - IntelliWriter ..read more

(April 22, 2024). Today's students are increasingly using swiftly advancing technologies such as generative AI, and at Clarivate we believe it's a priority to help them learn how to use these technologies responsibly. Alethea, our innovative content engagement solution, flips the script on the misuse of AI tools, so rather than depend on a machine to do their work for them, students can harness its power to improve their learning and critical thinking skills. Alethea doesn't provide ready-made answers, it nurtures meaningful engagement with academic texts, class readings, and assignments throu ..read more

(April 22, 2024). Digital Science has today launched its Open Principles, a new initiative that commits its research information solutions to open science now and into the future. The Principles are the first step in Digital Science's journey to align more closely with the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information from a global research consortium headed by Leiden University, announced earlier today. They are also a concrete articulation of Digital Science's long-held, core vision of a trusted, frictionless, collaborative research ecosystem that drives progress for all. Open research ..read more

(April 16, 2024). The National Endowment for the Humanities announced $26.2 million in grants for 238 humanities projects across the country. Grants awarded today will underwrite a new permanent exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh on how the Nile River shaped ancient Egyptians' ideas of life and death; provide for treatment and digitization of photo collections at Appalshop documenting Appalachia's social, cultural, and economic history that were damaged by catastrophic flooding in Kentucky; and support archaeological research at the sites of two former boarding ..read more

(April 16, 2024). Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate, announced that it will host a special conversation with Dr. Safiya Noble, from the University of California, Los Angeles in an online talk on April 30 at 11:00 am EDT: “A Conversation with Dr. Safiya Noble: New challenges in DEI, Technology, and Libraries ..read more

(April 16, 2024). Noted author Anthony Reibel will headline a virtual event Tuesday, June 4 exploring the definitions of relational teaching and its impact on student learning. Follett Content Solutions and the McHenry County Regional Office of Education are co-sponsoring “Book Talk: Embracing Relational Teaching by Anthony Reibel,” which will be held from 8 to 9 p.m. EDT ..read more

(April 16, 2024). Dataly Tech and BibLibre announced that the ILSAS network has chosen Koha and Vufind as their new ILS and discovery software. In the next 18 months, 20 universities will migrate to Koha, using it both as a union catalog and local ILS. Each university will also propose a public interface using Vufind, and the ILSAS network will also provide a global public interface with the Union Catalog ..read more

(April 16, 2024). Five prominent National Laboratories in the United States have secured transformative agreements with IOP Publishing, advancing open access to research at scale. Argonne National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory join a growing number of academic institutions that drive the growth of OA through the adoption of transformative agreements ..read more

(April 17, 2024). Although Aspen has had the ability to support children's catalogs for close to a decade, scoping econtent by age group for audience-specific interfaces wasn't available for every econtent provider. Now that econtent vendors are reliably providing data on age appropriateness, we've added controls so that all econtent can be included in children's catalogs ..read more