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    June 29th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    6/28/2013
    CONTACT:
    Nathan Curulla
    (888) 900-8944
    sales@bywatersolutions.com

    175 Libraries Choose Koha Support from ByWater Solutions in 2013

    ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America’s forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that at a little more than 6 months in to 2013, 175 libraries have chosen to switch to the Koha open source ILS with support from ByWater Solutions.

    Libraries choosing Koha support from ByWater Solutions often cite quality of the product and proven reputation for reliable and friendly support as their main reasons for switching. Of the 38 contracts signed this year that make up the 175 libraries, many are either live on their Koha installation or in the process of testing their newly migrated data.

    CEO, Brendan Gallagher commented on the influx of libraries interested in Koha, “We’re extremely excited to welcome so many new partners in open source this year. More and more libraries are approaching us not just because they want a new system, but because they believe in supporting and promoting openness in libraries, and that’s what we’re all about. We are also taking great efforts to ensure that our quality of support and implementation remains the same regardless of our growth. We do this by growing internally as well, and continue adding some of the highest quality Koha experts in the world to our team.”

    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/

    About ByWater Solutions:

    ByWater Solutions is a full service, high quality support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their ILS than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in first rate Koha implementation and support with library systems of all sizes. Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions to support Koha not only lowers the cost of implementing and maintaining an ILS, but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit: http://bywatersolutions.com/

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    June 28th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    EBSCO has released EBSCONET Analytics, making decision support metrics and analysis tools available directly in the e-journal and e-package subscription management workflow. All EBSCONET users will be able to analyze the content of their e-journal and e=package collection but EBSCONET Usage Consolidation customers will benefit from additional metrics and reporting options.

    The release is below and is also available online at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/iii/EBSCO/prweb10880838.htm and on the EBSCO website at: http://www.ebscohost.com/newsroom/stories/ebsco-releases-ebsconet-analyt....

    Thank you.

    Lisa

    EBSCO Releases EBSCONET® Analytics™ — Free to EBSCONET Users and a Powerful Complement to EBSCONET® Usage Consolidation™
    ~ Subscription Management Improvements for all EBSCONET® Customers and More Collection Management Tools for EBSCONET® Usage Consolidation Customers ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — June 28, 2013 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has released EBSCONET® Analytics™ — the first phase of a multi-tiered upgrade for EBSCONET®. With the release of EBSCONET Analytics, EBSCO now offers the only decision support metrics and analysis tools available directly in the e-journal & e-package subscription management workflow. EBSCO makes collecting and evaluating usage data simple and direct so librarians can make the most efficient, informed collection development decisions.

    While all EBSCONET users will be able to analyze the content of their e-journal and e-package collections, EBSCONET® Usage Consolidation™ customers will benefit from additional metrics and reporting options. Through a combination of EBSCONET Usage Consolidation and Analytics, librarians can take advantage of real-time insights into critical usage data, including cost-per-use, in a dashboard that provides easy-to-read data enabling rapid analysis of e-journals and e-packages.

    In the first phase of the release, the combination of EBSCONET Usage Consolidation and Analytics provides customers data focused on e-packages and individual order analysis. For packages, the in-context dashboard of analytics — fully integrated within the EBSCONET workflow — provides instant access to average cost per use; percentage of titles with use; usage from the 20% of titles with most use; trends from prior years and much more. For individual orders, the cost and usage are supplemented by cost per use, prior-year trends and comparative averages by subject, fund code and more.

    Subsequent releases will include additional reporting such as analyzing cost, title and usage by subject, fund code, publisher, format and purchase type for one or more years. Reports can be presented as pie charts, bar charts or detailed reports that can highlight the entire collection to individual elements. Ultimately, an overall order dashboard will be available to provide a single, overarching view that graphically represents analyses of subscriptions, costs and usage by subject, fund code and more.

    About EBSCO Information Services
    EBSCO Information Services (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 420,000 e-books plus subscription management services for more than 360,000 unique titles including more than 57,000 online titles. 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
    Vice President of Communications
    EBSCO Information Services
    (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
    kmcevoy@ebsco.com

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    June 28th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    An expanded partnership between EBSCO and Innovative Interfaces is designed to improve access to library resources by incorporating catalog functionality within EBSCO Discovery Service. The partnership also allows Innovative to sell EBSCO A-to-Z™ with LinkSource®, which will be known as Full Text Finder™ and builds upon the existing agreement that has provided for joint development designed to enable more tightly integrated access between EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and Innovative’s Encore discovery platform.

    The release can also be found at http://www.prweb.com/releases/iii/EBSCO/prweb10880838.htm and http://www.ebscohost.com/newsroom/stories/ebsco-information-services-and....

    Please let me know if you have any questions.

    Lisa

    EBSCO Information Services and Innovative Interfaces
    Announce Expanded Strategic Partnership
    ~Discovery/ILS Partnership Leads to Greater Integration
    of Electronic Resource Discovery and Delivery ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — June 28, 2013 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (Innovative) have expanded their strategic partnership designed to improve access to library resources. The expanded partnership will incorporate catalog functionality within the EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) experience including real-time circulation status checking, enabling end users to place holds via EDS, providing libraries with single sign-on authentication and displaying patron account status within EDS. The partnership also allows Innovative to sell EBSCO A-to-Z™ with LinkSource®, which will be known as Full Text Finder™.

    Innovative Chief Executive Officer, Kim Massana, says the expanded agreement came out of the success of the existing working arrangement. “As we have developed our current Encore/EDS integration, we saw opportunities for a closer working relationship in other areas that will benefit our library customers and their end users.”

    EBSCO Information Services President Tim Collins say the expanded partnership with Innovative is a great example of two library vendors working together to benefit customers. “We know our customers are looking for a variety of solutions for improving access to library collections and that is what we want to provide. The continuing success of our partnership with Innovative is a testament to what two vendors can accomplish when they decide it is in their collective best interests to develop solutions that leverage their strengths and, most importantly, serve the needs of their customers.”

    The existing agreement has provided for joint development designed to enable more tightly integrated access between EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and Innovative’s Encore discovery platform in addition to facilitating access between EDS and Innovative’s Sierra Services Platform. Having access to EDS’s unified index expands the quality and amount of content available for Encore users while adding the enhanced features and functionality available from EDS. Encore users are also able to search their EBSCOhost databases via the Encore interface—providing a uniquely powerful article search experience.

    The partnership has also lead to the development of the newly released Encore with EBSCO Discovery Service which brings the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles available into Encore. The robust metadata offered by EDS is culled from thousands of major journal publishers and information providers, providing the deepest possible indexing for the majority of journals and magazines. In addition, users of Encore with EBSCO Discovery Service benefit from more full-text resources than with any other option.

    About EBSCO Information Services
    EBSCO Information Services (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 420,000 e-books plus subscription management services for more than 360,000 unique titles including more than 57,000 online titles. 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.

    About Innovative Interfaces
    Innovative creates cutting-edge products that allow libraries to succeed in a modern technology environment and the freedom to implement solutions that best meet their specific needs. The company’s versatile and market-leading solutions include: the Sierra Services Platform, the Millennium ILS, the Encore Synergy discovery application, Electronic Resource Management, and INN-Reach resource sharing. An established company with a vision for the future, Innovative connects with thousands of libraries of all types in over 50 countries. Innovative’s commitment to service is reflected by its 24/7/365 Help Desk, Innovative University, and the CSDirect Web support center. The company is located in Emeryville, California with offices around the world.
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    For more information, please contact:
    Kathleen McEvoy
    Vice President of Communications
    EBSCO Information Services
    (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
    kmcevoy@ebsco.com

    Gene Shimshock
    SVP, Product and Marketing Management
    Innovative Interfaces
    genes@iii.com
    (510) 655-6200

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    June 28th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    Award-Winning Academic Solution Now Integrated with OCLC’s Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Fee Management Service

    Five New Publishers Added

    Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization creating global licensing and content solutions that make copyright work for everyone, announces enhancements to its award-winning Get It Now academic solution, including the integration of OCLC’s ILL Fee Management (IFM) Service and the addition of five new publishers: ME Sharpe Inc., Human Kinetics, Akademiai Kiado, Cognizant Communication and World Scientific Publishers. This brings the total number of publishers participating in the service to 55.

    Used at over 175 institutions, Get It Now complements ILL services by providing library patrons with immediate fulfillment of full-text articles from unsubscribed journals – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Through a year-long cooperative effort between CCC, OCLC and Atlas Systems, this highly requested new feature gives academic libraries that have adopted Get It Now the option to pay for article purchases using their IFM account.

    OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to furthering access to the world’s information and reducing library costs. The OCLC IFM service helps libraries reduce administrative costs by allowing users to pay – and be paid for – ILL lending charges through their OCLC invoices. The service reduces the workload and time spent generating invoices and writing checks. It also supports reciprocal ILL agreements among libraries. The Get It Now/IFM integration requires ILLiad v8.4, the mediated workflow of Get It Now, and the Get It Now add-on for ILLiad v2.0.

    “This integration further demonstrates CCC, OCLC, and Atlas Systems’ commitment to academic libraries and improving content acquisition,” said Tim Bowen, CCC Director, Academic Products & Services. “Our mutual customers asked for the ability to pay for Get It Now articles via IFM in ILLiad, and through the hard work and persistence of all three organizations, I’m pleased to say it can now be done.”

    “This new delivery option originated with input from OCLC members, many of whom already benefit from the workflow efficiencies and savings of time and money that result from using IFM to manage payment of fees related to interlibrary loan,” said Katie Birch, OCLC Director of Delivery Services. “The new option extends the convenience of IFM to purchasing through CCC’s Get It Now service and through other partner sites in the future. This functionality is an example of OCLC’s strategy to broaden its delivery services to include expanded options for buying needed resources instead of borrowing them. “

    Institutions are participating in CCC’s pilot program, including Murray State University, I.U.P.U.I., SUNY Geneseo and SUNY Brockport. The pilot program is scheduled to conclude on July 31 with general availability of the new feature scheduled for August 1.

    To encourage the use of IFM with Get It Now, CCC and OCLC are offering a promotional campaign for ILLiad libraries. For each Get It Now article request placed and paid for through IFM between August 1 and November 30, 2013, institutions will automatically be entered into a raffle to win one of two $250 “Vernon Bucks” gift certificates from Vernon Library Supplies.

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    June 27th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    The Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004 and British Newspapers, Part III: 1780-1950 Now Available

    Farmington Hills, Mich., June 27, 2013 — Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced the launch of the Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004 and British Newspapers, Part III: 1780-1950, bringing more than 200 years of celebrated journalism online to the Gale NewsVault platform. Offering an unparalleled window to the past, these new archives join Gale’s extensive list of historical newspaper and periodical collections, bringing the total number of available collections to 17.

    “Newspapers not only capture the sentiment of the times, they provide detailed accounts of a myriad of events, both big and small, that have got into shaping our current environment,” said Jim Draper, vice president and general manager, Gale. “By making these historical collections of newspapers available digitally and fully-searchable, we are opening up a world of research opportunities for students, faculty and even the curious genealogist.”

    Described by The New Yorker as “the newspaper that rules Britain,” the Daily Mail has been a key opinion former and driver of social change since its first issue in 1896. It currently boasts a circulation of over 2 million, and its website is the most visited news site in the world. The Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004 provides students, researchers and public libraries with unprecedented digital access to one of Britain’s most influential papers and its views. In more than a million pages of content from the paper, including all of the major news stories, features, advertisements and images, the archive captures the development of 20th century culture and society in a fully searchable and browse-able digital format. As well as the regular edition of the newspaper, uniquely the Daily Mail Historical Archive also includes the Daily Mail Atlantic Edition, which was published on board the transatlantic liners that sailed between New York and Southampton, UK between 1923 and 1931. Issues are extremely rare and are not available digitally from any other source.

    Gale’s British Newspapers, Part III: 1780-1950 features regional and local newspapers that range in coverage from the late eighteenth century to early 20th century. The archive features new content and sources such as the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Leeds Intelligencer, Evening Telegraph, Yorkshire Gazette, Nottingham Evening Post, Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury. Sourced from the British Library, Gale’s complete collection of British Newspapers 1600-1950, including Parts I and II, has over 1 million pages of newspaper content from the UK published from the late 1700s into the early 1900s. The collection also includes the 17th & 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers which provides rare content for scholarly research into political, educational, economic or journalistic study. Overall, this collection will allow researchers to examine the publishing landscape of certain provincial cities and counties outside of London in great depth.

    For more information on these archives or the Gale NewsVault platform, please visit http://gdc.gale.com/ or stop by the Gale booth (#600) at the American Library Association annual meeting in Chicago, June 28 – July 1. For questions or to request a free trial, please contact Kristina Massari at kristina.massari@cengage.com.

    About Cengage Learning and Gale
    Cengage Learning is a leading educational content, software and services company, empowering educators and driving learner engagement through personalized services and course-driven digital solutions that bridge from the library to the classroom. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world's information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs – from homework help to health questions to business profiles – in a variety of formats. For more information, visit www.cengage.com or www.gale.cengage.com.

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