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    April 11th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    Credo Announces New Technology to Enhance and Streamline Research through EBSCO Discovery Service™
    ~ Mutual Customers to Benefit from Continued Integration of Library Vendors ~

    BOSTON / OXFORD, England — April 11, 2013 — Research just got easier and more efficient for end-users whose libraries subscribe to Credo solutions and EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) from EBSCO.

    Credo, the industry leader for information skills solutions, today announced it has deployed new technology that integrates its growing library of Topic Pages with EBSCO Discovery Service. Students who search EDS will now see Topic Pages, which provide a gateway through Credo’s trusted multimedia-rich reference content to other library resources, alongside their search results, providing a highly targeted starting point for deeper research. Soon these searches will also retrieve Credo full-text reference entries, high resolution images and videos.

    EBSCO Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer Michael Gorrell says as a provider of discovery services for libraries EBSCO is always working to improve the end-user experience. “By leveraging this new technology from Credo we are able to offer a new reference layer that sets the context for information discovery and make further use of existing library resources within the discovery environment. This agreement expands upon our partnership with Credo to further address the research needs of libraries and the end user.”

    “One of Credo’s primary goals is to inform users’ research process, giving them not only the answers they seek for their immediate information need but providing them with the skills they need to conduct effective research in the future,” said Carol Helton, Credo’s Executive Vice President of Customer Solutions and Marketing. “By partnering with EBSCO, an established world leader in information discovery and delivery, we are able to leverage our content, technologies and services to meet users at their point of need.”

    Credo’s new technology is available at no cost to libraries that subscribe to both Credo and EBSCO Discovery Service. For additional information please email learnmore@credoreference.com.
    About EBSCO
    EBSCO is the leading provider of resources for libraries including EBSCONET®, EBSCO’s total e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost®, the world's premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives and e-books. EBSCO provides more than 375 research databases and more than 380,000 e-books plus subscription management services for 355,000 e-journals and e-journal packages. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of journals and magazines than any other discovery service. For more information, visit the EBSCO website at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.

    About Credo
    A 2013 SIIA CODiE Award winner, Credo believes that everyone deserves the ability to learn and the opportunity to succeed.

    To help people achieve their academic, professional and personal goals, Credo partners with libraries, educators, publishers and technology providers to deliver solutions for developing information skills. Founded in 1999, Credo has offices in Boston and the UK. For additional information about Credo and its Literati solutions please visit http://corp.credoreference.com.

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    For more information, please contact:
    Kathleen McEvoy
    Public Relations Director
    EBSCO
    (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
    kmcevoy@ebsco.com

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    April 11th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    Primary Source content from five new Accessible Archives databases is now available through EBSCO Discovery Service. The details are below or can be read at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10622233.htm. Please let me know if you have any questions.

    Lisa

    Five New Databases from Accessible Archives Inc. Available in EBSCO Discovery Service™
    ~ Partnership Between EBSCO Publishing and Accessible Archives Inc. Brings Archived Historical Information to EBSCO Discovery Service™ Users ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. / BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — April 11, 2013 — A new agreement between EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and Accessible Archives, Inc. will enable additional primary source content to be discoverable within EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). Metadata from five new Accessible Archives’ databases will be added to EDS, the most comprehensive and robust collection of metadata from the best content sources. The addition of this content will serve as a valuable resource for EBSCO Discovery Service users with an interest in American history and culture.

    The new databases from Accessible Archives include:
    • Frank Leslie’s Weekly
    • The National Anti-Slavery Standard
    • National Citizen and Ballot Box
    • The Revolution
    • American County Histories IV: West

    Frank Leslie’s Weekly is an illustrated literary and news publication that ran from 1852 until 1922. Frank Leslie’s Weekly provided reports of wars from John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry and the Civil War until the Spanish-American War and the First World War. It also included extensive coverage of events such as the Klondike gold rush of 1897, the laying of the 1858 Atlantic Cable and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

    The National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Established in 1840, the Standard sought to extend the rights of slaves across the country and also advocated suffrage for women.

    The National Citizen and Ballot Box was a monthly journal edited by American women’s rights advocate, Matilda Joslyn Gage that published essays on a wide range of issues, including regular columns about prominent women in history and female inventors.

    The women’s suffrage movement was also the subject of The Revolution, a weekly women’s rights newspaper that was the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Published between 1868 and 1872, The Revolution’s influence on the national woman’s rights movement was enormous and it confronted subjects not discussed in most mainstream publications of the time.

    American County Histories IV: West is one of four geographic groupings of American County Histories an essential resource for local historical and genealogical research. American County Histories IV: West includes county histories with regional overviews and general community conditions for Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

    Accessible Archives, Inc. is an electronic publisher of primary source full-text historical databases encompassing rich, comprehensive material found in leading historical periodicals, books and newspapers. Accessible Archives content also provides unique historical elements reflecting broad views of American history and culture. Information includes: eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements and genealogical records.

    EBSCO Discovery Service users will have the ability to search the full text of Accessible Archives resources bringing an extended list of results alongside additional library resources. EDS creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box—searching made even more powerful because of the quality of metadata and depth and breadth of coverage.

    Accessible Archives, Inc. is part of a growing list of publishers and other content partners that are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. Partners include the world’s largest scholarly journal & book publishers including Elsevier, Wiley Blackwell, Springer Science & Business Media, Taylor & Francis Informa, Sage Publications, and thousands of others. Partners also include content providers, such as LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), JSTOR, ARTstor, Credo Reference, World Book, ABC-CLIO, and many others.

    EBSCO Discovery Service is quickly becoming the discovery selection for many libraries (www.ebscohost.com/discovery/eds-news), and an obvious partner for content providers. Because the service builds on the foundation provided by the EBSCOhost® platform, libraries gain a full user experience for discovering their collections/OPAC—which is not typical in the discovery space. Further still, in the many universities and other libraries where EBSCOhost is the most-used platform for premium research, users are not asked to change their pathways or habits for searching. There’s simply more to discover on the familiar EBSCOhost platform, and the same can be said for library administrators who can leverage their previous work with EBSCOadmin™.

    About Accessible Archives, Inc.
    Founded in 1990, Accessible Archives utilizes computer technology and a large team of conversion specialists to provide vast quantities of archived historical information previously available only in microformat or hard copy form or as images only. Diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture have been assembled into comprehensive databases. Developed by dedicated instructors and students of Americana, these databases allow access to the rich store of materials from leading books, newspapers and periodicals then current. Accessible Archives will continue to add titles covering important topics and time periods to assist scholars and students at all academic levels. Unlimited Priorities LLC is the exclusive sales & marketing agent for Accessible Archives and also facilitated the negotiations for this agreement.

    About EBSCO Publishing
    EBSCO is the leading provider of resources for libraries including EBSCONET®, EBSCO’s total e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost®, the world's premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives and e-books. EBSCO provides more than 375 research databases and more than 380,000 e-books plus subscription management services for 355,000 e-journals and e-journal packages. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of journals and magazines than any other discovery service. For more information, visit the EBSCO Web site at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.

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    April 10th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    4/10/2013
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    Nathan Curulla
    (888) 900-8944
    sales@bywatersolutions.com

    ByWater Solutions Welcomes David Noe as a Koha Migrations Specialist

    ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha support, is happy to welcome David Noe as Migrations Specialist. David will join our expert Koha migrations team in assisting new partners in the transition to the Koha open source ILS.

    David received his BA in American Studies and MLIS from the University of Alabama. After graduate school he moved back to his home town (Huntsville, Alabama) for a position with SirsiDynix. Since then David has served as Technical Services Librarian at the University of Saint Thomas in Houston, Texas and Digital Services Librarian at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.

    David commented on his recent decision to join the ByWater Solutions team:

    “Whether working for a library or a library vendor, I see myself as a librarian. Knowing the challenges with resources and technologies many, if not most, libraries face, I believe ByWater’s model of supporting open source is one that works well for library world. I have been following ByWater’s growth over the last four years, and I am impressed with their record of service. I hope I can contribute to that work. An opportunity to join an organization in ByWater’s stage of growth is rare, indeed. I am genuinely excited to have such an opportunity.”

    “David brings years of expertise in academic libraries, systems support, integration, and development to ByWater Solutions. We are thrilled to have him join us on the migration team!” commented Joy Nelson, Director of Migrations.

    About ByWater Solutions:

    With over 10 years of experience, ByWater Solutions offers customized hosting, data migration, configuration, installation, training, support options and development of the enterprise class open source library system, Koha. Offering a 24/7 technical helpline, ByWater Solutions’ clients have the support system they need to make their software work for them. ByWater Solutions pledges to share 100% of all developed code to the Koha community for the strengthening and advancement of the Koha ILS. For more information about ByWater Solutions, please visit: http://www.bywatersolutions.com

    About Koha:

    Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. It includes modules for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, and more.

    Koha’s OPAC, circulation, management and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies–XHTML, CSS and Javascript–making Koha a truly platform-independent solution. Koha is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL). For more information about Koha, please visit: http://koha-community.org

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    April 10th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    The American Theological Library Association and EBSCO announce a new produce that allows alumnie to search teh valuable resources they used as students. Please let me know if you have any questions.

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    ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index® now available for Alumni
    ~ New Product from ATLA and EBSCO Allows Alumni to Search the Valuable Resources They Used as Students ~

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. / IPSWICH, Mass. — April 10, 2013 — The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) and EBSCO are announcing a new product offering aimed at alumni interested in searching the valuable resources they used as students. The ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index® (ATLA CPLI®) for ALUM may be purchased by any institution that subscribes to the ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index® (ATLA CPLI®).

    “We are delighted to offer ATLA CPLI for ALUM. With this product, institutions can directly support their alumni by providing them access to the premier index of periodicals, essay collections, church documents, papal documents and electronic resources expressly addressing the practice and intellectual tradition of Roman Catholicism,” commented Margot Lyon, ATLA’s Director of Business Development.

    “This offering builds on the success of other alumni products offered by ATLA and EBSCO, including ATLASerials® for ALUM, which provides full-text access to key journals in religion and theology,” said EBSCO Director of Sales, Licensed Databases, Ryan Bernier.

    For information about subscriptions, contact EBSCO at information@EBSCOhost.com.

    About ATLA
    Established in 1946, the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) is a professional association of nearly one thousand individual, institutional, and affiliate members providing programs, products and services for theological and religious studies libraries and librarians. ATLA offers a prestigious product line of electronic resources to support the scholarly study of religion and theology, including the ATLA Religion Database® (ATLA RDB®), ATLASerials® (ATLAS®) and ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index® (ATLA CPLI®). For more information, visit http://www.atla.com.

    About EBSCO
    EBSCO is the leading provider of resources for libraries including EBSCONET®, EBSCO’s total e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost®, the world's premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives and e-books. EBSCO provides more than 375 research databases and more than 380,000 e-books plus subscription management services for 355,000 e-journals and e-journal packages. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of journals and magazines than any other discovery service. For more information, visit the EBSCO Web site at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.

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    For more information, please contact:
    Kathleen McEvoy
    Public Relations Director
    EBSCO
    (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
    kmcevoy@ebsco.com

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    April 6th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    North Bethesda, MD, April 5, 2013 – LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces the public release of LibLime Koha 4.14.

    LibLime Koha 4.14 has been in beta production release among sponsoring libraries since the fall of 2012. After completing a rigorous beta testing phase, the application is now publicly available for all as a download at http://www.liblime.com/demos as well as http://www.koha.org/liblime-koha. Release Notes are available at each site. The source code is also available for public access in the LibLime unified git repository located at https://github.com/liblime/LibLime-Koha.

    The latest version of LibLime Koha continues to add deeper support for consortia and enhanced performance for larger and larger collections with increased circulation traffic. With all LibLime Koha versions since 4.8, the entire codebase continues to run in the Plack environment for increased performance. LibLime Koha 4.14 continues to provide libraries with the most advanced functionality and performance available in the open development ILS arena.

    Some of the new functionality in LibLime Koha 4.14 includes many features designed by and for librarians to allow for local customizations in OPAC design and some additional SIP2 messages. New features in LibLime Koha 4.14 include:
    • The addition of Solr
    • Full faceted support in the OPAC
    • An embedded New Titles list
    • Additional functionality for new and expired holds

    About LibLime - PTFS
    LibLime – PTFS is the global leader in providing support for the Koha open source ILS. Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, the PTFS LibLime Division educates libraries about the benefits of open source, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. The PTFS LibLime Division then facilitates deployment of Koha in libraries by providing outstanding consulting, development, implementation, and support/hosting for libraries of all types and sizes. PTFS is also the developer of the world’s leading content management software, ArchivalWare, and specializes in meeting library personnel staffing requirements, digitization, and metadata keying services. For more information, see http://liblime.com or http://ptfs.com or http://archivalware.net.

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