Chongqing Library in China has chosen the ALEPH 500 integrated library system from Ex Libris.
Patrick Sommers is resigning from his position of chief executive officer of library-management system company SirsiDynix.
Libraries with a database on the ProQuest platform can now use it for access to full text of the electronic content in its collection, from ProQuest or from another content provider.
Knowledge management has become a well-used term but people disagree on what it actually means and what is required to achieve it, as Iain Dunbar of Softlink Europe reveals
Talis and Medialab Solutions, creator of the AquaBrowser application, have announced a platform partnership agreement, allowing Medialab to take advantage of the Talis’s open software platform’s APIs.
A partnership between Thomson Scientific and Australia’s University of Melbourne has resulted in the launch of Journal Use Reports, a new research assessment and collections management tool.
Innovative Interfaces is developing a unified search-and-access tool called Encore, planned for general release in mid-2007. This discovery-services platform uses Web 2.0 technologies and builds on the company’s Millennium integrated-library technology
VTLS has announced that Version 48 of its Virtua product supports Oracle XE, Oracle's free starter edition of its database software.
The changing nature of research resources and the demands of its users are having a knock-on effect on the companies that help libraries to manage this information. Siân Harris discovers OCLC PICA's perspective on the library-management sector
RFID is becoming a popular way to monitor materials in libraries and elsewhere but the use of this wireless technology has prompted questions about users' privacy. Dr Christian Kern, the head of systems development at Switzerland's Bibliotheca RFID Library Systems does not believe there is any cause for concern
Interviews for this article have been adapted from recent PhaidraCon roundtable events and from upcoming 2023 editions of EpistemiCast
Patrick Hargitt explains why 2022 became the year that accessibility got serious
Joseph Koivisto and Jordan Sly from the University of Maryland discuss the implications of the publications-as-data model
Despite the collective and decisive step changes in enabling the transition to open access this year, we should not be complacent, writes Susie Winter
Thomas Shaw and Andrew Barker from Lancaster University Library discuss the realities, challenges and future impact of open access in the research community
It’s not a question of if, but how. The future of scholarly publishing is open, yet the debate on how to accelerate the growth of open access continues
