From an OCLC Press Release: OCLC has signed agreements with leading publishers and other content providers from around the world to add more databases and collections to WorldCat Local, the OCLC discovery service that offers users integrated access to more than 800 million items in libraries worldwide. Libraries using WorldCat Local can offer users access [...]

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More publishers add content to the world of discovery.  World Book and ReferenceUSA content will be searchable via Summon in the near future.  More from the press release: Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, today announced that researchers will soon be able to discover reliable reference content from World Book and Infogroup’s ReferenceUSA [...]

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On Sunday I met with Matt Barnes, Vice President of Marketing, for ebrary. Matt and I discussed ebrary’s new patron driven acquisition model, searching ebrary content through the ProQuest interface, and the results of an ebrary mobility study on the need for downloadable ebooks.  Matt shares a few of the results, which are not yet [...]

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The news many have awaited since ProQuest’s acquisition of ebrary – ebrary content is now discoverable through ProQuest databases.  In fact, the databases are interlinked. The Academic Complete collection will launch first, with additional titles available by fall. More from the press release:  Just over five months after acquiring e-book innovator ebrary®, ProQuest launched technology [...]

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As you prepare your ALA Annual schedule, please consider the following two programs sponsored by the RUSA Reference Publishing Advisory Committee and the Reference Books Bulletin Advisory Board. RUSA Reference Publishing Advisory Committee Program: Reference Publishing: Preservation Trends & Issues – June 25 Sat 1:30-3:30 As electronic reference products transform to electronic formats, often with [...]

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Another discover service has secured the Elsevier ScienceDirect content, this time EBSCO Publishing’s Discovery Service.  Great to see this cooperation to provide library content in a centralized discovery tool. More from the press release:  Full text from SciVerse ScienceDirect is being added to EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) thanks to a new agreement from Elsevier and [...]

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Big news from Serials Solutions today – they will index Elsevier content from ScienceDirect! More from the press release: Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, and Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products, today announced their intention that the full-text of SciVerse ScienceDirect® content will be indexed within the [...]

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After 2 years of research and usability studies, WorldCat Local discovery tool now offers a mobile-optimized site.  Any library with WorldCat Local or visibility on WorldCat.org can claim their unique URL and use it to support their mobile users. More from the press release:  A production version of mobile-optimized WorldCat Local is now available to [...]

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Credo continues to expand it’s subject collections with the new addition of Elsevier titles.  There was no indication in the press release of the date these titles will be available. More from the press release:  Credo Reference (www.credoreference.com), the award-winning online reference service, and Elsevier, an international provider of scientific, technical and medical information products [...]

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Great news from Ohio today – the Ohio Metro Library Directors and OverDrive met to discuss various eBook challenges.  OverDrive will launch Overdrive WIN, a series of platform enhancements this June. More from the press release: As a result of unprecedented demand for eBooks, library directors, advocacy groups, and readers challenged leading eBook supplier OverDrive [...]

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