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    December 29th, 2016LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    12/29/2016
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    Mercy College of Health Sciences Library Goes Live on Koha with ByWater Solutions

    ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America's forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that the Library at the Mercy College of Health Sciences, of Des Moines, Iowa is now live on Koha. ByWater Solutions completed the migration of the library's holdings from Library.Solution earlier this year and is providing ongoing Koha support and hosting services to them. The library's customized online Koha catalog can be viewed at: http://mchs.bywatersolutions.com/. ByWater has expressed their excitement regarding this partnership and is happy to assist another health science library in taking advantage of the benefits found in using an open source ILS.

    About the Mercy College of Health Sciences Library:
    The mission of Mercy College Library is to facilitate student success, to provide access to resources for the academic, professional and personal development of the Mercy College community and its affiliates, and to promote life-long learning and information literacy. In addition to the five core values of Mercy College of Health Sciences, the Library values:

    • Service - The Library is service-oriented first and foremost.
    • Collaboration - The Library values collaboration among its own staff, across the entire MCHS community, and with local, state and national libraries, associations and consortia to advance the Library’s mission of serving others.
    • Access - The Library values free and open access to its services and collections.
    • Information Literacy - The Library values teaching users how to gather, critically evaluate, and use information.

    The Mercy College Library is a dynamic member of the MCHS community and provides equitable access to information for those on campus and those engaged in online education. The Library embraces and promotes change in its organization, collections, and services to meet current demands and anticipate future needs, and encourages and supports both independent and collaborative learning at all levels within the community. For more information please visit: http://www.mchs.edu/Academics/Library

    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, HTML5, 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 Koha 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 for Koha support 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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    December 20th, 2016LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    IPSWICH, Mass. — December 20, 2016 — Pediatric content in the evidence-based clinical reference tool DynaMed Plus® from EBSCO Health will benefit from the appointment of Scott Barron, M.D. as the Deputy Editor of Pediatrics. Dr. Barron brings with him over 20 years of experience in General and Emergency Pediatric Medicine to this new position.

    A graduate of the University of South Florida College of Medicine, Dr. Barron completed his Pediatric Residency at Loma Linda University Medical Center. He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University Of Central Florida College Of Medicine and a Pediatric Emergency Physician at the Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando, Florida. Board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, he also served as the Director of Evidence-Based Pathways for the Pediatric Emergency Department at Nemours Children’s Hospital and as a leader in medical student education.

    As a deputy editor, Dr. Barron oversees the integration of pediatric content for DynaMed Plus. He supervises medical writers and editors along with external peer reviewers to ensure that physicians and healthcare professionals have access to the most current, relevant, evidence-based clinical information available. EBSCO Health maintains a rigorous editorial process that includes subject-specific experts reviewing topics using a proprietary, evidence-based methodology and quality assurance process.

    Senior Vice President of Medical Product Management Betsy Jones says the addition of Dr. Barron will improve the pediatric content already available in DynaMed Plus. “Dr. Barron’s experience and expertise will enhance an already solid foundation of pediatric evidence available in DynaMed Plus so that medical professionals have the information they need in their pediatric clinical practice.”

    For more information about DynaMed Plus and its editorial team, visit: http://www.dynamed.com/home/

    About EBSCO Health
    EBSCO Health, part of EBSCO Information Services, is a leading provider of clinical decision support solutions, healthcare business intelligence, and medical research information for the healthcare industry. EBSCO Health users include professionals in medicine, nursing, and allied health. Flagship products include CINAHL®, DynaMed Plus™, Nursing Reference Center™, clinical e-books and e-journals, EBSCO Discovery Service™, licensed databases (such as MEDLINE®), plus EBSCONET®. EBSCO databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the electronic resource favored by libraries around the world.

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    Kathleen McEvoy
    Vice President of Communications
    (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
    kmcevoy@ebsco.com

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    December 20th, 2016LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    Leiden, 20 December 2016

    Following an earlier announcement Brill, the international scholarly publisher, today has completed the acquisition of Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink, including the imprint Konstanz University Press.

    The Germany based publishing houses have an annual turnover of more than € 3 million. The acquisition is accretive and will strengthen Brill’s program in History, Theology, Literature and Cultural Studies, Media Studies and Philosophy. The publishing list comprises of a catalogue of 5,500 books and over 300 new titles per year as well as 7 journals.

    Owner and Managing Director of the companies, Ms Voßhans-Schöningh, says: “The business has been family owned since 1847. It was not an easy decision for us to sell, but we are happy to have found the right partner to take our publishing houses into the future. The program of Brill, Schöningh and Fink are complementary and Brill has the right publishing environment and a big international network that will serve our customers, authors and the foundations we work with.”

    Brill has appointed Jörg Persch as Managing Director of Schöningh and Fink. He will be responsible for the publishing program and local management. After 13 years Persch is leaving Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, where he was Publishing Director for Theology and Religion as well as Managing Director of their US subsidiary in Bristol, Connecticut. Herman Pabbruwe, CEO of Brill, is very pleased with the appointment: “With his vast knowledge of the German academic market and long international experience, Jörg Persch is the right candidate to facilitate the future development of Schöningh and Fink.”

    Brill has its headquarters in Leiden and will maintain the office location in Paderborn, Germany, in addition to the offices in Boston and Singapore. Ordering and customer service of Ferdinand Schöningh, Wilhelm Fink and Konstanz University Press will continue as usual through their distributor Brockhaus Commission in Stuttgart, Germany. For a complete title list and ordering information please visit www.schöningh.de, www.fink.de and www.kup.de.

    For questions about this press release please contact Jasmin Lange, Director Business Development at Brill (+31 (0)6-21282145 or langej@brill.com).

    About Brill
    Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in 20 main subject areas, including Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, History, Biblical and Religious Studies, Language & Linguistics, Biology, and International Law. With offices in Leiden, Boston and Singapore, Brill today publishes 265 journals and about 900 new books and reference works each year, available in both print and electronic form. Brill also markets a large number of primary source research collections and databases. The company’s key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information, please visit www.brill.com.

    About Ferdinand Schöningh
    Founded in 1847 in Paderborn, Ferdinand Schöningh specializes in History, Catholic Theology, Pedagogy, Linguistics and Literary Studies. The program comprises of highly esteemed book series published under the auspices of foundations such as Stiftung Konrad Adenauer Haus, Otto von Bismarck Stiftung and Kommission für Zeitgeschichte. It also includes the Handbook of the History of Religion, Handbook of Pedagogy and monographs on Ancient History, History of Synods, Modern History, National Socialism as well as Violence and Perpetrator History. The family-owned company publishes several journals and around 170 new titles per year. They are a member and shareholder of UTB, a successful German based marketing and sales organization for textbooks and academic literature.


    About Wilhelm Fink
    In 1962 Wilhelm Fink, previous editor of Deutsche Verlags Anstalt DVA, founded his own publishing company. Starting with a number of philological works the program, which was acquired by Ferdinand Schöningh in 1973, expanded into Philosophy, Art and Cultural Studies. Amongst others the publisher established the field Media Studies in the intellectual debate in Germany and oversaw the editing of important collected works of Johan Huizinga, Susan Taubes and Friedrich Kittler. With the University of Konstanz, Wilhelm Fink established hermeneutics as a theory in modern intellectual history. The cooperation with the university led to the foundation of Konstanz University Press as an imprint of Wilhelm Fink. The company publishes well-known journals and around 160 new titles per year and is also a member and shareholder of UTB.

    View this Media Alert online: http://www.brill.com/news/brill-completes-acquisition-ferdinand-schoning...

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    December 15th, 2016LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    ~ BIOSIS Previews and Zoological Record Will Be Available via EBSCOhost® Platform ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — December 15, 2016 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) will be adding two new resources, BIOSIS Previews™ and Zoological Record™, to the EBSCOhost® platform. EBSCO and Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, have expanded their partnership to make these two resources available via EBSCOhost, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world.

    BIOSIS Previews, a bibliographic database covering life sciences and biomedical sciences, combines journal content from Biological Abstracts® with supplemental, non-journal coverage from Biological Abstracts/RRM® (Reports, Reviews, Meetings). With backfiles to 1926, researchers can access current or retrospective literature in areas such as pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and environmental and consumer issues.

    Zoological Record is an index of zoological literature, and is the world's oldest continuing database of animal biology. The broad scope of content ranges from biodiversity and the environment to taxonomy and veterinary sciences and coverage extends back to 1864.

    Head of Research and Discovery at Clarivate Analytics Joelle Masciulli says, “We are excited to make this valuable content available to customers through the EBSCOhost platform, joining our long-time partnership with EBSCO for Biological Abstracts and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts. This partnership represents our commitment to serving our customers’ needs and integrating our data into their critical workflows wherever possible.”

    Making these resource available via the EBSCOhost platform and in EBSCO Discovery Service™ will further extend its reach to users. EBSCOhost is a customizable, intuitive search experience designed to cater to user needs and preferences at every level of research. EBSCO Discovery Service brings together the most comprehensive collection of content—including superior indexing from top subject indexes, high-end full text and the entire library collection—all within an unparalleled full-featured, customizable discovery layer experience.

    About Clarivate Analytics
    Clarivate™Analytics accelerates the pace of innovation by providing trusted insights and analytics to customers around the world, enabling them to discover, protect and commercialize new ideas, faster. Formerly the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, we’ve been assisting our customers for over 60 years. Now as an independent company with over 4,000 employees, operating in more than 100 countries around the world, we remain expert, objective and agile. For more information, please visit us at Clarivate.com

    About EBSCO Information Services
    EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the leading discovery service provider for libraries worldwide with more than 10,000 discovery customers in over 100 countries. EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) provides each institution with a comprehensive, single search box for its entire collection, offering unparalleled relevance ranking quality and extensive customization. EBSCO is also the preeminent provider of online research content for libraries, including hundreds of research databases, historical archives, point-of-care medical reference, and corporate learning tools serving millions of end users at tens of thousands of institutions. EBSCO is the leading provider of electronic journals & books for libraries, with subscription management for more than 360,000 serials, including more than 57,000 e-journals, as well as online access to more than 900,000 e-books. For more information, visit the EBSCO website at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a family owned company since 1944.

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    Kathleen McEvoy
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    December 15th, 2016LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    12/15/2016
    CONTACT:
    Nathan Curulla
    (888) 900-8944
    sales@bywatersolutions.com

    The Public Library of Anniston-Calhoun County Goes Live on ByWater Solutions Koha Support

    ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America's forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that The Public Library of Anniston-Calhoun County of Anniston, Alabama is now live on their Koha open source integrated library system.

    ByWater Solutions has completed the migration of the Libraries' more than 130,000 titles earlier this year and is providing ongoing hosting and support services to the library. The library's customized online catalog can be viewed at: http://anniston.bywatersolutions.com/

    Brendan Gallagher, CEO of ByWater also commented on the Library's move to Koha:

    "We are thrilled to have the opportunity to partner with the staff of the Anniston-Calhoun Library for their implementation and ongoing Koha support. We are excited to see such a high level of interest for open source in Alabama! The team at the library have been a real pleasure to work with and we look forward to a long a productive relationship together. "

    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,HTML5, 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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