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Information Today December 2000 |
XanEdu, McGraw-Hill Sign New, Comprehensive Agreement Bell & Howell Co. and its newest division, XanEdu, have announced the signing of a comprehensive licensing and distribution agreement with McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies... |
Information Today April 7, 2003 Barbara Quint |
Thomson Learning Moves into Coursepack Market Two subsidiaries of Thomson Learning, Gale Group and South-Western, have announced a marketing launch of electronic coursepacks for the academic market. |
Information Today November 19, 2001 Paula J. Hane |
OCLC Offers to Purchase netLibrary's Assets OCLC announced that it has made an offer to purchase "substantially all the assets of netLibrary and assume certain netLibrary liabilities"... |
Information Today May 23, 2011 Nancy Herther |
McGraw-Hill eBook Library Debuts As Its Etextbook Platform Company officials plan appearances at library-related conferences throughout the coming year to demo the new ebook service, geared to the needs of professional and academic markets. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2001 |
Textbooks to Become Interactive Houghton Mifflin and netLibrary have launched a digital textbook initiative to create electronic versions of Houghton Mifflin College Division texts. By the fall of 2001, electronic textbooks will be available on a Web-based learning platform called MetaText... |
Information Today September 14, 2009 |
Private Equity Firm Acquires National Archive Publishing Co. NA Publishing, Inc. provides microform archiving of periodicals and journals for the library, higher education, and healthcare markets. |
Information Today April 1, 2014 |
XanEdu and SharedBook Agree to Merge Custom course materials provider XanEdu will merge with the SharedBook publishing and compilation platform. |
Information Today February 2001 Paula J. Hane |
E-Publishing Competition Heats Up Traditional book publishers have had a tough time lately... |
Information Today November 7, 2005 Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Sells Periodical Microfilm and Coursepack Businesses to Newly Formed Company ProQuest Company has sold three parts of its Information and Learning business to a start-up company led by former ProQuest executives. |
Information Today June 4, 2007 |
XanEdu Introduces Multimedia Content in Course Packs In partnership with Harvard Business School Publishing and Darden Business Publishing, XanEdu will provide digital video supplements and other multimedia case content to college and university business faculty and programs. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2000 |
Create Customized Course Materials The Bell & Howell Company announced the debut of XanEdu, its newest unit of products serving the higher education market. The product's portfolio offers CoursePacks, CasePacks, LitPacks online, a ReSearch Engine and an MBA ReSearch Engine... |
CIO September 1, 2001 Joe Kendall |
No More Paper, No More Books As technology continues to pervade the classroom, even the classic textbook is in danger of being relegated to the shelves of historical artifacts... |
Information Today November 11, 2002 Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Co. Announces Management Shake-Up On October 29, ProQuest Co. announced a change in management and a reorganization that creates a new business unit within the company. |
Information Today November 2008 Miriam A. Drake |
OCLC: An Enterprise With a Global Perspective In the 10 years since Robert "Jay" Jordan became president of OCLC, he has transformed the company into a global enterprise and created greater value for libraries and the public. |
Information Today May 28, 2002 Barbara Quint |
OCLC, Olive Software Ally to Digitize Library Newspaper Archives OCLC Digital and Preservation Resources has signed an agreement with Olive Software to supply libraries with the tools to digitize historical newspaper archives. |
Information Today November 24, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
CCC Integrates Rights Licensing Within Vendor Applications The Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is on a mission to increase the likelihood of copyright compliance. The latest CCC strategy consists of integration deals with third party vendors that extend CCC's rights licensing capabilities to the point of content, making it easier for users to gain copyright permissions. |
Information Today July 30, 2001 Barbara Quint |
OCLC Abandons Proprietary Software for Oracle Standard, Institutes Web Document Archiving Service OCLC, the leading library vendor, continues building for its future as a master player in the emerging virtual library world. Getting down to basics, it has announced that it will substitute the market-standard Oracle software as its basic platform... |
Information Today March 6, 2008 |
National Library of China to Add Its Records to OCLC WorldCat The National Library of China, the largest library in Asia, will add its bibliographic records to the OCLC WorldCat database, making those records available to researchers worldwide. |
Information Today April 22, 2002 Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Announces Q1 Results, Secondary Stock Offering ProQuest Co. has announced its company results for the first quarter of its 2002 fiscal year (ending March 31) as well as its projections for the rest of the year. The company has also filed a registration with the SEC to offer additional shares of its common stock. |
Information Today May 22, 2008 Barbara Quint |
OCLC Tightens Links to Google Book Search This week, OCLC signed an agreement confirming and increasing the links between OCLC's WorldCat.org free web service and Google Book Search. |
Information Today October 30, 2000 Barbara Quint |
With OCLC's New Strategy, Is the Earth's Largest Library in Sight? OCLC, the largest library online cooperative, is setting a new strategy that could move it as well as public and academic libraries across the country and the world into an emerging, unified, virtual library service on the Web... |
Searcher January 2001 Barbara Quint |
Breach of Precedent Is Earth's largest library now in sight? |
Searcher May 2001 Nicholas Tomaiuolo |
Playing Twenty Questions to Test Low-Cost, Free, or Subscription Databases for End-User Online Service A survey of some low-cost article search engines. |
Information Today January 9, 2006 Barbara Quint |
OCLC Expands Linking Resources with Acquisition of Openly Informatics OCLC, the leading library vendor, has acquired Openly Informatics, a service that supplies linking software and services to libraries through direct arrangements and, especially, through platform services provided to library vendors. |
Information Today December 15, 2011 Marshall Breeding |
OCLC WorldShare Platform: OCLC Brands and Strengthens Its Webscale Strategy It has been no secret that OCLC has been hard at work developing a new global technology platform to support the automation needs of libraries. |