Many of you have already joined our new Library Membership Scheme. Every quarter we will bring additional benefits to all existing members – and any new members joining us. Discounts on Advertising is available. For Spring 2017, GSE Research have generously made some discounts on subscriptions. Read more.
Discounts on Advertising
As you may have noticed we run advertising on the home page of Ingenta Connect. Advertisements are strictly vetted and open ONLY to bona fide educational institutions promoting their courses, to our publishing partners and third parties with whom we have a special relationship, like Kudos and RedLink. Read more.
If you have any ideas for how the Library Membership Scheme could be improved, or any features you would like to see, please contact us – without your help, we can’t make it the service you’d like it to be!
Every quarter we run webinars which are currently free. Our next webinar is on COUNTER5 – on June 27th at 15:00:00 BST, 10:00:00 EDT, 16:00:00 CEST. Guest presenter is Lorraine Estelle.
If you are not a Library Member, you’re welcome to come along but places are limited to 50 and priority will be given to our Members. To pre-register, please mail me direct at Byron.russell@ingenta.com. Read more.
We released the first draft of the COUNTER Code of Practice Release 5 in January, and received great feedback from all our stakeholder, mostly positive. The innovative structure for the Code of Practice, with new Reports and new Metric Types and Attributes will represent usage in a much more accurate way than before. Read more.
On August 25, 2016, the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) approved a new project to modernize library-vendor technical interoperability to improve the access of digital library content and electronic books. Read more.
On the last day of UKSG, I was privileged to go with a group of about 20 other delegates to the British library is facility at Boston spa. We were lucky with the weather, a beautiful sunny April day. Coach transportation was provided, but I took my own car to Wetherby – a short drive from the UKSG conference centre in Harrogate. Read more.
Let us introduce ourselves; we’re Megan and Esther, two Information Assistants at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in Preston. As the two recipients of the first ever George Pitcher Award we were fortunate enough to be sponsored by Ingenta Connect to attend the 2017 Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC). Read more.
We’re delighted to announce that a recent article in Film Studies, issue 14 has been awarded the runner-up prize for best journal article of the year in the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Awards 2017.
Film Studies approaches cinema and the moving image from within the fields of critical, conceptual and historical scholarship. The journal provides a forum for the interdisciplinary, intercultural and intermedial study of film by publishing innovative research of the highest quality. The latest issue can be viewed free of charge and there is also a special 20% discount available for an article. Read more.
The next issue of the Newsletter comes out in September, just after the start of the new academic year. There’ll be news of another webinar, details of more publishers joining us and a report on the ALPSP Conference, celebrating ten years of scholarly publishing, plus news of tow exciting new digitisation initiatives. If you’d like to publish and promote any new ideas you have – or innovations that have worked in your library – then please get in touch!