Information Today Europe eNews

Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Featured Articles

The ALISS summer conference focused on how innovative uses of social media can support academic research - and ensure that services are promoted effectively.

The current state of LIS research, and the benefits of cross-disciplinary research projects, were discussed at the latest DREaM conference.

How are knowledge and information management roles and responsibilities changing? The latest research from TFPL reveals new trends in role design and skills requirements.

Effective business intelligence can help leaders make performance enhancing decisions. Viet-Hai Phung reviews a report that describes a 'new frontier' for information and knowledge management.

Featured News

The British Library wants to acquire the 7th century St Cuthbert Gospel for the nation.

Yell has plans to move more of its business online.

Kobo's proposed European expansion begins in Germany.

Collaborative and shared services are on the agenda at UKSG's 2011 conference.

Press Releases

JISC calls for all metadata to be openly accessible

Unlocking the descriptive information or metadata about digital content is the key to making it more useful.

A Problem Shared: Understanding shared services and the drive for efficiency in scholarly communications

UKSG's 2011 one-day conference will focus on shared services in scholarly communications

Serials Solutions Summon™ Service Continues to Expand Content with Hoover’s Company Records

Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, today announced it has signed an agreement with Hoover’s, Inc. to enable the discovery of Hoover’s Company Records content from the Summon™ web-scale discovery service.