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Newly-created position consolidates R&D efforts of Wicks and Wilson and Mekel Technology manufacturer. Frederick, Maryland (USA) and Basingstoke, Hampshire (UK) (PRWEB) March 16, 2013 Christopher Crowley, president of The Crowley Company, announced today that Kevin Keeler, research and development (R&D) manager at Wicks and Wilson, a division of The Crowley Company, has been named vice president of research and development. “This is a significant move for both our company and...
LOS ANGELES, March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Research Solutions, Inc. (RSSS), a business-to-business information services and software company, announced today the launch of a new single-article content retrieval platform for academic libraries by wholly-owned subsidiary Reprints Desk (www.reprintsdesk.com). The new software service facilitates paid access to copyright-protected literature, commonly known as 'document delivery,' by faculty, graduate students and undergraduate...
The collection-based service supplements interlibrary loan (ILL), providing same day acquisition of scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles LOS ANGELES, March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reprints Desk, Inc., a Research Solutions company, announced today the launch of A-Z Academic Document Delivery Collection, a new single-article document delivery retrieval service for academic libraries that provide literature acquisition services to faculty, graduate students and undergraduate...
Agreement enables libraries to enrich service to family historians and academic researchers ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest is significantly expanding its rich selection of historical news content as the global distributor to libraries and other institutions for NewspaperARCHIVE.com, a 130 million-page database that captures coverage from valuable local newspapers throughout North America, the U.K., and select countries from 1607 to the present. ProQuest...
Seasoned professional brings fresh perspective to customer experience SEATTLE, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In support of delivering a superior customer experience, ProQuest appointed Tiffany Williamson as Vice President of Operations for Marketing, Sales and Customer Experience. In this new role, Williamson will drive strategy and operations excellence across sales and marketing, with a particular focus on aligning ProQuest's businesses creating an integrated approach to the...
Ibercultura required to pay sums owed, fees CHICAGO, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The ICC International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, France, has handed down a ruling in favor of Encyclopaedia Britannica UK, Ltd. in its contractual dispute with the Spanish publisher Ibercultura Ediciones y Publicaciones SL, a former business partner. The arbitration stemmed from allegations by Britannica that Ibercultura failed to pay sums due to it from...
Leading library organizations will exchange data to enrich discovery for users of WorldCat Local, Summon, ProQuest Central, and ebrary e-books ANN ARBOR, Mich. and DUBLIN, Ohio, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest and OCLC are launching a far-reaching data exchange program that will enhance the library discovery experience for users of OCLC's WorldCat Local service, ProQuest's Summon® service, the full-text of ProQuest Central and ebrary e-books. The program shares metadata...
#ideadrop house provides venue for think-tank discussions to advance libraries and librarianship ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Recognizing the insights and knowledge shared at SXSW Interactive (SXSWi), ProQuest, and ER&L are creating the ER&L + ProQuest #ideadrop house at this year's festival, March 8-12. Located in the heart of Austin, (TX) the house will be a premier destination for librarians to gather for salon-style group discussions about the future...
New partnership enables libraries to reach more readers Ipswich, MA (PRWEB) February 21, 2013 NoveList®, a division of EBSCO Publishing is announcing a new ILS integration with NoveList Select™, its catalog enrichment resource. NoveList Select is now integrated into the Evergreen ILS – enabling more libraries to make their library catalog a robust tool full of rich information for the readers. At a recent Evergreen developer ‘Hackfest’ event sponsored by Equinox Software,...
WT Cox can now provide libraries the Cost Of Living Index (COLI) in a variety of formats. Shallotte, North Carolina (PRWEB) February 20, 2013 WT Cox Information Services announces its partnership with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), a membership organization that promotes excellence in community and economic research by working to improve data availability, enhance data quality, and to foster learning about regional economic analytic methods. The Cost of Living...
