News and Announcements 4/13/12

New EBSCOhost Collection Manager to Help Libraries With Ebooks and Audiobooks

According to this report in Information Today EBSO is making it easier for library staff to search for ebooks and audiobooks and add them to their collections with the new EBSCOhost Collection Manager (ECM). ECM can be used to search or browse for ebooks and audiobooks by title, author, publisher, and more or make selections from the Subject Sets or Featured Collections created by EBSCO. ECM can also help libraries create and manage lists of titles they want to expose to patron-driven acquisition (PDA), manage deposits, and determine which ownership models to apply to the various ebooks and audiobooks in their collections.

Directory of Open Access Books is launched

According to TeleRead “OAPEN is pleased to announce the launch of the Directory of Open Access Books (www.doabooks.org), a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository…”

Thomson Reuters Improves Measurement of Universities’ Performance with New Data on Faculty Size, Reputation, Funding and Citation Measures

Resource Shelf quotes a press release from Thomson Reuters that “the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters today announced the availability of 138 percent more performance indicators and nearly 20 percent more university data within Institutional Profiles™, the company’s online resource covering more than 500 of the world’s leading academic research institutions. This new data enables administrators and policy makers to reliably measure their institution’s performance and make international comparisons.

International Library Related Conference Website 

Anyone interested in attending or presenting at a library related conference both in and outside the US may be interested in this website maintained by James Thull, Associate Professor, Reference Librarian Montana State University.  It is a continuation of a list created by Marian Dworaczek at the University of Saskatchewan Library.