Blog 2017

JISC Collections and Serials Solutions are employing the ONIX for Publications Licenses (ONIX-PL) format to facilitate the exchange of data between their respective systems. Through this collaboration, licenses will be added to 360 Resource Manager, marking the first time JISC Collections’ licenses have been included in an ERM service.

Serials Solutions welcomes Kevin Stehr as Vice President of Global Sales. In this role, he will drive business growth through customer acquisition, retention and overall client satisfaction.

The article touches on the great hope amongst librarians and content providers that discovery products will help promote information literacy. Libraries using the Summon service are finding this is more than a promise.

Our comments on our recent survey of libraries continues this week, as we delve more into libraries’ attitudes toward their current ILS and what they desire in a new collection management system. One issue came through loud and clear – integrated management of all collections, whether print or electronic.

The goal of Intota and the new Knowledgebase is to make library staff more productive, so that the library staff can use their talents and creativity to focus on the new mission of the academic library. Libraries need to showcase their relevance in new ways.

Peter is the Manager of the Documentation and Training Team within Global Client Support Services. His team’s primary concern is providing great educational services to our clients on how to use our software.

Serials Solutions supported The South Dakota Library Association (SDLA) Annual Conference (October 3-5) and made it possible for Joe Raiola to attend as a keynote speaker. He brought the first amendment to life and discussed the most debated issues of freedom of speech in his workshop, “The Joy of Censorship.”

Serials Solutions® has announced the addition of Hyweb Technology content to the Summon® web-scale discovery service. Hyweb has more than 900 journals which represent 90% of Taiwanese journal published.

Content from Scopus, an abstract and citation database from Elsevier, will be indexed in the Serials Solutions® Summon® discovery service.

Serials Solutions announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair content from AskZad, ciando GmbH, the European Patent Office (EPO) and Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA will be indexed in the Summon discovery service.