VIVA Announcements

New Products for Spring 2013 - Elsevier & Springer STEM-H E-Book Collections

The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) now offers two premier collections of e-books in STEM-H – Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Health – fields from Elsevier and Springer.

SciVerse Science Direct eBooks from Elsevier and four subject-based e-book collections from Springer will provide VIVA libraries with extensive new resources to support government, business, and educational leaders in their efforts to increase the number of college graduates in STEM-H related fields.

Further information on each product is available on their respective product pages:

http://www.vivalib.org/vendors/vendinfo.php?vendabbrev=ELSV

http://www.vivalib.org/vendors/vendinfo.php?vendabbrev=Springer

The full announcement can be found here:

http://www.vivalib.org/outreach/releases/Elsevier_Springer_e-books.html

Agenda set for Vendor Fair regarding VIVA's DDA for ebooks.

The agenda has been set for VIVA’s Vendor Fair coming up on November 13th at VCU.  Registration is required and open, so please do so HERE if interested.   Details are also available on VENDOR FAIR page on the viva website.

VIVA
Vendor Demo Day for the Demand Driven Acquisitions RFP
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Virginia Room C/D of the University Student Commons Building
Virginia Commonwealth University
907 Floyd Avenue, Richmond, Virginia 23284

AGENDA

8:30 AM: Coffee
9:00 AM: Welcome and Introductions
9:15 AM: YBP (40 minutes for presentation, 30 minutes for Q&A)
10:25 AM: Break
10:40 AM: Ingram/Coutts (40 minutes for presentation, 30 minutes for Q&A)
11:50 – 12:35 Lunch
12:35 PM EBSCO (40 minutes for presentation, 30 minutes for Q&A)
1:45 PM Break
2:00 PM EBL (40 minutes for presentation, 30 minutes for Q&A)
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM Wrap-Up
3:45 PM ADJOURN

Press Releases for New Products Available for Local Distribution

Press releases for recently available products are now available on the VIVA site. Dissertations and Theses–Full Text, Contemporary Women’s Issues and the American History in Video Collection press releases are available in PDF, RTF and HTML. Customize the text by including your own quotes, add your URL, etc, and distribute the press releases to your campus newspaper, faculty, students, staff and anywhere else the communities you serve acquire information.

VIVA Press Releases