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Information Today
February 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Divine Debacle Rocks Industry RoweCom, a library subscription agency and subsidiary of divine, Inc., has suffered financial collapse. The orders for subscriptions and payments that libraries placed with RoweCom throughout the fall were not passed along to the publishers, leaving both libraries and publishers in limbo.   |
Information Today
January 13, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
NewsBreak Update RoweCom and divine Negotiate with Creditors and Potential Buyers |
Information Today
January 27, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Steps into the RoweCom Deal After Swets Blackwell Backs Out Creditors of divine's RoweCom business have been on pins and needles for weeks waiting for a resolution to the subscription fund fiasco. |
Information Today
March 10, 2003
Barbara Quint |
EBSCO's Takeover of RoweCom Continues Though its bankrupt parent divine reportedly now faces the possibility of criminal charges stemming from a federal grand jury investigation, RoweCom continues to move toward an acquisition by EBSCO. |
Information Today
February 10, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Signs Definitive Agreements for RoweCom's European Business EBSCO Industries, Inc. has now signed definitive agreements to acquire the European operations (France, Spain, and the U.K.) of RoweCom/divine Information Services. |
Information Today
February 3, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
RoweCom Files for Bankruptcy, Then Sues divine for Fraud In a bizarre twist to the continuing saga of the disappearing subscription money, RoweCom, the beleaguered subsidiary of divine, inc., filed for bankruptcy on Monday Jan. 27, then sued its parent company for allegedly looting the company. |
Searcher
September 2003
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Protecting Yourself Against "Rogue" Vendors: Beyond "Divine" Guidance Here's a scary thought. Is divine's RoweCom/Faxon the only loose link in the vendor chain? Does dealing with any other companies put your operation at a similar risk? |
Information Today
February 27, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
divine Seeks Bankruptcy Protection Chicago-based divine, inc. has crumpled, following its two-year run as a tech start-up, aggressively acquiring companies. So, what does this mean for the proposed EBSCO acquisition of divine's RoweCom being negotiated through the bankruptcy court? |
Information Today
March 2007
Phillip Britt |
The New Face of Swets Is a subscription agent still needed in the electronic publishing marketplace? |
Information Today
January 28, 2002
Paula J. Hane |
divine Acquires Northern Light, Announces Premium Content Agreement with Yahoo! Just 2 weeks after Northern Light announced it was refining its business focus and discontinuing free Web searching at northernlight.com, it has been acquired by Chicago-based divine, Inc., a provider of integrated solutions to the enterprise market. |
Information Today
September 17, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases 2013 Serials Price Projections Report This report, based on surveys of a wide range of publishers and reviews of historical serials pricing data, provides serials price projections that will assist information professionals as they make budgeting decisions for the upcoming renewal season. |
Information Today
March 2002
Paula J. Hane |
divine Acquires Northern Light The company adds key search technology and content to its extended enterprise solutions... |
Information Today
December 2000 |
Swets Blackwell Acquires Munksgaard Direct Swets Blackwell and Munksgaard have announced the signing of an agreement stating that Swets Blackwell has acquired Munksgaard Direct, the book and subscription service division of the Munksgaard Group... |
Searcher
January 2004
Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources... |
Information Today
August 26, 2002
Barbara Quint |
divine Launches Virtual Reference Desk Software A new player has entered the burgeoning field of virtual reference support. divine, Inc., a relative newcomer to the information industry, has announced that it will start marketing Virtual Reference Desk software built around NetAgent, its customer interaction management software. |
Information Today
November 2000 |
EBSCO Expands Book Services, Creates E-Journal Licensing Web Site EBSCO Information Services has announced that it will expand access to EBSCO Book Services, its online book searching and ordering service, to libraries and other organizations... |
Information Today
April 2003 |
The Latest on Companies, Search Engines, and Products Once again, the past month's news has been dominated by developments in the RoweCom/divine situation... A series of recent acquisitions reveals the pressures and mounting rivalries in the Web search arena... D&B, Hoover's Update... etc. |
D-Lib
December 1999 |
Editorial As publications become available both online and in print, some groups of users find that they prefer the online versions. But in relinquishing the tradition of print journals, libraries require more than a few assurances from the publisher on whom they must depend... |
D-Lib
July 2001
Steven J. Bell |
The New Digital Divide Dissecting Aggregator Exclusivity Deals... |
Information Today
February 2001
Paula J. Hane |
IT Interview Questia Provides Digital Library, Research Tools... |
Information Today
May 2001
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Publishing Provides Integrated Serials Solutions There may still be folks out there who only associate the name EBSCO with magazine subscriptions for libraries. But EBSCO Subscription Services is just one of two divisions within EBSCO Information Services... |
Information Today
October 6, 2015 |
EBSCO Rolls Out 2016 Serials Price Projections EBSCO Information Services introduced its "Serials Price Projections for 2016," which notes that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and medical libraries is expected to be 4%-6%. |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
Information Today
December 8, 2003
Barbara Quint |
HighWire Press Provides Open Packaging to Online Journal Subscribers Initiated by a group of scholarly society publishers participating in HighWire Press, the librarian-led journal aggregator, a new pricing/subscription model allows librarians to create their own packages using tiered pricing tied to library type. |
Information Today
May 2003
Paula J. Hane |
News on Web Resources, divine/RoweCom, More The war in Iraq and the health crisis spawned by the SARS virus dominated the news over the last month or so. Information industry news seemed a bit subdued in comparison, yet there were still a number of important developments. |
Information Today
September 27, 2004
Rebecca Lenzini |
Swets Financial Crisis Eased by New Capital Swets was bailed by the capital injection of 45 million Euros (about $55.2 million U.S.) from shares placed privately with existing shareholders, primarily two venture capital groups---NPM Capital and Cobepa. |
Information Today
January 2004
Paula Hane |
The Latest Developments in Open Access, E-Books, and More Because of Online Information, it was a busy several weeks for news, despite the lull during the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. |
Information Today
April 4, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Library Ebook Lending Under Attack The options libraries have are poor and our customers are frustrated. There are numerous restrictions on lending, device incompatibilities, proprietary systems, interface issues, privacy issues, and more. |
Information Today
February 11, 2002
Rebecca Lenzini |
Washington's Governor Proposes Closing State Library to Save Money The governor's office in the state of Washington has proposed closing the Washington State Library by this October. This move is part of an effort to reduce overall state spending by more than $500 million to solve a $1.2 billion shortfall in Washington's biennial budget... |
Information Today
July 7, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Ebook Developments Were HOT at ALA At the recent American Library Association Annual conference, it's clear that librarians are focused on embracing the expanding digital world and specifically on providing ebooks as part of library services. |
Information Today
August 15, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program. |
Information Today
July 1, 2002
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Announces Its New Electronic Journals Service EBSCO has announced that it is replacing EBSCO Online, its existing electronic journals service that was first released in January 1999, with a new offering called EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service. |
Information Today
June 2003 |
News Break: The Latest on Google, Market Research, and More Like it or not, news about Google is dominating both the technology and mainstream media... Because of the privacy issues it raises, the USA PATRIOT Act continues to rile librarians and civil libertarians... etc. |
Information Today
April 25, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries. |
Information Today
February 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
Information Today
December 17, 2009
Dan Tonkery |
Baker & Taylor Acquires Blackwell North America and James Bennett--Market Reaction The news of this acquisition has been reported throughout the library media world. |
Information Today
February 6, 2014 |
3M Cloud Library Launches in Canada and Debuts Automation Tool 3M announced that the 3M Cloud Library ebook lending system from 3M Library Systems is now available in Canada. |
D-Lib
December 2007
Karla L. Hahn |
SERU (Shared Electronic Resource Understanding) Opening Up New Possibilities for Electronic Resource Transactions -- Widespread adoption of the SERU model for many electronic resource transactions offers substantial benefits both to publishers and libraries by removing the overhead of bilateral license negotiation. |
Information Today
June 10, 2002
Barbara Quint |
QuestionPoint Marks New Era in Virtual Reference QuestionPoint stems from an arrangement between the Library of Congress' Public Service Collections Directorate and OCLC to provide libraries with access to a growing collaborative network of reference librarians in the U.S. and around the world. |
Information Today
January 2004 |
NewsBytes Librarians Release New Info Pro Web Log... FreePint Publishes Data-Protection Report Online... ProQuest Signs Three New Agreements... IFLA Announces Donation to FAIFE... etc. |
Information Today
January 28, 2010
Barbara Quint |
EBSCO Exclusives Trigger Turmoil Major among the listings were the magazines produced by Time, Inc. as well as Forbes. The contracts for these acquisitions were exclusive to EBSCO for the library "marketspace." |
Information Today
February 21, 2013 |
Impelsys Announces Commercial Launch of New eBook Ordering System The new title acquisitions system for libraries enables library staff to order ebooks for their collections directly from participating publishers. |
Searcher
January 2002
Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today
July 23, 2013 |
Swets Introduces Open Access Management Service Swets has a new open access service to help librarians manage their OA-related workflows. |
Information Today
October 1, 2013
Brandi Scardilli |
Who's Who in Ebooks Just as books don't magically appear on library shelves, ebooks don't automatically pop up in a library's online catalog. Librarians work with ebook vendors to get econtent into the hands, or rather, onto the e-readers, of their patrons. |
Information Today
March 2003
Paula J. Hane |
NewsBreaks Update New developments in content licensing, open-access publishing, and more |
Searcher
December 2009
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Too Close for Comfort It's not just tough times that imperil traditional libraries. The economic crisis is speeding up the cascade of technological and societal tipping points, but those tipping points would happen regardless of the economy. |
Information Today
July 1, 2014
Nancy K. Herther |
Libraries Continue to Battle for Fair Access to Ebooks Academic and special libraries have found comparatively fewer problems in gaining access to ebooks for their clients than school and public libraries. |
Searcher
March 2003
Barbara Quint |
Our Friend, the Taxman Wicked describes the situation facing many library directors these days as the national economy continues to limp. State and local government officials face severe revenue shortfalls and libraries are getting hit hard. |
Information Today
October 2003 |
NewsBytes EBSCO, NPR Renew In-Kind Grant... West's FindLaw, washingtonpost.com Expand Alliance... etc. |
