EBSCO Information Services Releases Communication Source™ – the Most Comprehensive Resource for Communication Research Available
~ New Communication Database Includes Unique Sources Never Previously Available ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — January 24, 2014 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) continues to expand coverage in the field of communication with the release of Communication Source™. Communication Source is the most comprehensive resource for communication research available today. The resource was developed from a merger of high-quality EBSCO databases, Communication and Mass Media Complete™ and Communication Abstracts ™ (formerly published by SAGE), and includes many unique sources never previously available.

Communication Source includes coverage of more than 1,000 core titles and features full text for more than 600 active periodicals, including 150 full-text titles not found in other EBSCO academic databases. The database offers abstracts and indexing as well as full-text content from publications worldwide pertaining to communication, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, media studies and related fields. Back file coverage includes top titles in communication reaching deep into the 20th century.

Communication Source also features a subject-specific thesaurus with more than 4,500 preferred and 8,500 non-preferred terms, as well as searchable cited references to help researchers identify material relevant to their search results.

Communication Source is part of a growing collection of subject-specific resources offered by EBSCO including: Library & Information Science Source™, Art Source™, Education Source™, Applied Science & Technology Source™ and Humanities Source™.

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 500,000 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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1/24/2014
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Birmingham Museum of Art Chooses ByWater Solutions’ Koha Support

ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America’s forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that the Birmingham Museum of Art, of Birmingham, Alabama, is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.

ByWater Solutions completed the migration for the Birmingham Museum of Art last year and will be providing ongoing Koha support and hosting services to them. Their custom mobile-friendly OPAC can be viewed at http://bma.bywatersolutions.com

Tatum Preston, Librarian at Birmingham Museum of Art, spoke of her decision to move to Koha:

“I have long been a fan of both the flexibility and value offered by open source products like Koha. I chose to go with ByWater Solutions as my support and hosting provider due to their excellent customer service, automatic software upgrades, and competitively-priced hosting options.”

About Birmingham Museum of Art:

Founded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art has one of the finest collections in the Southeast. More than 24,000 objects displayed and housed within the Museum represent a rich panorama of cultures, including Asian, European, American, African, Pre-Columbian, and Native American. Highlights include the Museum’s collection of Asian art, Vietnamese ceramics, the Kress collection of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the late 13th century to the 1750s, and the Museum’s world-renowned collection of Wedgwood, the largest outside of England. For more information about Birmingham Museum of Art, please visit: http://www.artsbma.org

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/

Atlanta, GA - January 23, 2014 - LYRASIS has developed an exclusive new eBook program, in partnership with ProQuest, to offer demand-driven eBook content to our members in an easy-to-manage, pay-as-you-go format. The program, entitled, Easy DDA, gives LYRASIS members access to thousands of books, with the ease of getting started and managing the collection, all while showing the value of actual monograph budget expenditure

With very little setup cost and minimal implementation time, LYRASIS members can begin to use Easy DDA to enhance their collections and improve their users' experience. Easy DDA is a great solution for libraries that have been reluctant to try eBooks and are skeptical of demand-driven acquisition (DDA). The Easy DDA program is straightforward and simple to administer, helps relieve space issues, and will prove popular with academic administrators. Members can also decide along the way, based on actual usage data, how much to expand access to the content and to which subject packages.

Easy DDA is easy to setup and manage, and provides a measurable return on investment. What makes Easy DDA so easy are the combined benefits of pre-set subject packages, pre-established DDA settings, space and cost savings, and the ease of managing eBook collections.

Pre-Set Subject Packages
The subject packages are built on the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) system. Each of the 18 subject packages can be parsed according to publication dates or used as a whole, based on need and budget. And, LYRASIS and ProQuest have eliminated very high priced books that can be budget busters.

Pre-Established DDA Settings
The default settings for purchase triggers, short-term rentals and other parameters are pre-set, yet adjustable per preferences or firsthand experiences with Easy DDA, supported by comprehensive real-time usage data. The settings are based on analysis of hundreds of DDA programs from around the world that EBL, the ProQuest company whose technology governs the program, has collected since 2005. LYRASIS and EBL staff will work with libraries to select collections and parameters that will come in within 5 percent of the specified budget.

Space and Cost Savings
Easy DDA is valuable for libraries that face space and monograph budget constraints. The analytic reports provide tangible data that demonstrate to library directors, provosts or university presidents the wise way in which libraries are using their monograph budgets.

eBook Benefits
Because eBooks are cost-effective in providing users access to current books on a continuous basis, the desired content is available to patrons anywhere, anytime. Every book in the Easy DDA program (more than 300,000 to start) allows multiple users at the same time. The books' full text is searchable, and notes can be taken, persist online for each user and are easily exported. And, the eBooks are downloadable to almost all devices.

"We are thrilled to be able to offer increased online access to eBook content that has never been easier, more efficient or more cost-effective," stated Kate Nevins, Executive Director of LYRASIS. "Easy DDA brings a wealth of content to our members and their users in a real-time, easy-to-use program that has not been available previously."

According to Kari Paulson, head of ProQuest's eBook division and a founder of EBL, "DDA is past the experimental stage, and eBooks should be a fact of life in academic libraries. DDA makes libraries better. By partnering with LYRASIS, we hope to bring value to libraries as they establish innovative ways to serve their patrons."

LYRASIS is debuting Easy DDA at ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia, PA, from January 24 through January 27, at booth #1261. For more information on Easy DDA, please visit www.lyrasis.org/easyDDA.

About LYRASIS
LYRASIS partners with member libraries and cultural heritage organizations to create, access and manage information with an emphasis on digital content, while building and sustaining collaboration, enhancing operations and technology, and increasing buying power. For more information, please visit www.lyrasis.org.

About ProQuest
ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable information. Key to serious research, the company's products are a gateway to the world's knowledge including dissertations, governmental and cultural archives, news, historical collections and ebooks. ProQuest technologies serve users across the critical points in research, helping them discover, access, share, create and manage information. For more information, please visit www.proquest.com.

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organization, announced today the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society, has selected CCC's RightsLink for Open Access to manage Article Processing Charges (APCs) for its Open Access publications.

ACS will use RightsLink for Open Access to streamline payments from authors by providing easy-to-use tools for paying Open Access charges. The RightsLink solution provides authors with invoices and utilities that ease the process of institutional reimbursement and increases efficiencies for customer service, finance and operations.

“We were looking for an automated solution to capture author payments efficiently,” said Brandon Nordin, Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Web Strategy, ACS. “ACS has a large base of authors and service offerings for them. It was important for us to select a partner that was flexible, could support our Open Access pricing models, including ACS Author Rewards, and grow with us.”

ACS currently offers an Open Access option for all its journals, which are hybrid-OA titles, but plans to offer a fully Open Access journal in 2014.

CCC's RightsLink for Open Access securely manages APCs, as well as page and color charges. Additionally, RightsLink offers 24/7 OA-aware permissions services at the article level; complies with funding agencies' mandates; provides author support, billing, and rapid collection services.

Since RightsLink for Open Access can be integrated with any journal production system and manuscript submission workflow, it helps publishers save time and money and allows their authors to place orders with confidence and ease.

CCC has been helping publishers improve the author experience in collecting APCs for more than six years and welcomes efforts toward standardization and transparency. It recently joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, working with its members on issues such as collecting APCs and Open Access-aware licensing. CCC was named one of “10 to Watch” by information industry analyst Outsell in its 2013 Open Access Market Report, recently endorsed the Research Information Network's call for cooperation among funders, universities and publishers.

CCC, in collaboration with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), recently launched an Open Access Resource Center that links to the latest Open Access news, reports, industry whitepapers, webinars and websites. CCC hosts webinars and podcasts on many aspects of Open Access and works with organizations such as the National Information Standards Organization on creating standards related to Open Access.

About Copyright Clearance Center

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the rights licensing expert, is a global rights broker for the world's most sought-after materials, including in- and out-of-print books, journals, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, images, blogs and ebooks. Founded in 1978 as a not-for-profit organization, CCC provides smart solutions that simplify the access and licensing of content. These solutions let businesses and academic institutions quickly get permission to use copyright-protected materials, while compensating publishers and content creators for using their works. We make copyright work. For more information, visit www.copyright.com.

1/22/2014
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Three New Libraries Join VOKAL With ByWater Solutions’ Koha Support

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha support, is happy to welcome Illsley Public Library, Essex Free Library and Maclure Library to the Vermont Organization of Koha Automated Libraries (VOKAL). All three libraries are now live on the Koha integrated library system through VOKAL.

VOKAL now has nearly 60 libraries using the system which has over 1 million items available to 100,000 patrons. The VOKAL shared catalog can be searched at http://catalog.kohavt.org.

Nicole C. Engard, VP of Education at ByWater Solutions spoke of VOKAL’s growth:

“I have had the pleasure of visiting many VOKAL libraries over the years and am always happy to see new members. The staff at these libraries are eager to learn about and participate in open source and always make great additions to both the Koha and ByWater communities.”

About the Vermont Organization of Koha Automated Libraries (VOKAL):

The Vermont Organization of Koha Automated Libraries (VOKAL), is a project of the Green Mountain Library Consortium dedicated to creating a shared catalog and Integrated Library System.

In 2007, the Stowe Free Library, the Carpenter-Carse Library (Hinesburg), and the Kimball Public Library (Randolph) joined with Sheila Kearns of the Vermont Department of Libraries to explore options for an ILS system to replace Follett. They decided on Koha, and in May of 2008, this team became VOKAL. For more information about VOKAL, please visit: https://sites.google.com/site/vokalvtpublic/home

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:

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