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ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2002
Donald T. Hawkins |
Electronic Books: Reports of Their Death Have Been Exaggerated It is now apparent that the e-book shot missed its mark, and the e-book revolution has fizzled. Indeed, it never really got off the ground. But despite all the gloom and doom surrounding them, e-books are not dead. Indeed, some e-book market segments appear to be stirring to life.   |
D-Lib
July 2001
Lucia Snowhill |
E-books and Their Future in Academic Libraries: An Overview This article briefly summarizes task force findings, and outlines issues and recommendations for making e-books viable over the long term in the academic environment, based on the long-term goals of building strong research collections and providing high level services to its users... |
Information Today
July 29, 2010 |
U.S. Public Libraries Can Provide High Schools with Free Credo Reference Access Recognizing the increasing burden on public libraries to support the research needs of students at local schools, Credo Reference will be made available to a library's local public high school(s). |
Information Today
September 30, 2002
Barbara Quint |
Gale Launches E-Books with OCLC's netLibrary Gale Group, a business unit of Thomson Corp., has launched an e-book program that will make a large collection of its reference material available to online library patrons through netLibrary. |
Salon.com
July 5, 2000
Janelle Brown |
The Napster library Does the San Francisco Public Library's plan to lend out e-books portend the death of the publishing industry? |
D-Lib
October 2004
John Cox |
E-Books: Challenges and Opportunities Where content matches need, e-books can support the academic mission effectively, saving time and adding value as a collective online reference resource rather than a set of individual titles. |
Information Today
June 26, 2006
Paula J. Hane |
Enhanced SpringerLink Offers eBook Collection Springer, which claims to be the world's largest scientific, technical and medical book publisher, has announced it will offer its complete publishing program online and on one integrated platform. |
Information Today
September 13, 2010 |
Ebook Collections Coming to Project MUSE Platform Project MUSE, a provider of humanities and social science periodical content for libraries, announced a new initiative to incorporate scholarly book content into its research platform and product offerings. |
Information Today
November 2000 |
Baker & Taylor Announces E-Book Partnerships Baker & Taylor, Inc. has announced the selection of two key technology partners by Informata.com, its new business-to-business e-commerce venture... |
Information Today
May 16, 2013 |
Credo Releases 12 New Perpetual Access and Subscription Collections Libraries now have even more options for enhancing their Literati solution or Credo Online Reference Service with essential titles. |
Information Today
May 17, 2012 |
Wolper to Distribute Gale Products to Special Library Market Wolper, the first subscription agency to sell Gale products, will expand distribution of key resources by offering them to libraries and individuals within corporations, medical and healthcare facilities, government agencies, and nonprofit institutions. |
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
February 2001
Paula J. Hane |
IT Interview Questia Provides Digital Library, Research Tools... |
Information Today
December 4, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Ingenta Releases New Subscription Management Service... Wolters Kluwer Health Launches PubFusion 2.0... ProQuest Adds Oxford University Press Titles to Literature Online... |
Information Today
December 17, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
xrefer Launches xreferplus Digital Reference Service for Libraries xreferplus is a giant online reference library that provides access to an aggregated and integrated collection of 100 reference books from 21 leading publishers, including Oxford University Press, Penguin, Grove, Houghton Mifflin, Columbia, and Macmillan... |
Information Today
June 3, 2010
Barbara Quint |
Public Library Complete (PLC) from ebrary Offers Ebooks and More This includes includes more than 20,000 ebooks from leading publishers with more ebooks coming into the package every day-at no additional cost to subscribing libraries. |
Information Today
November 2000 |
SIRSI Announces iBistro Alliances, Implementation of Unicorn System SIRSI Corp. has announced an alliance with netLibrary to integrate the latter's e-book infrastructure into SIRSI's new iBistro Internet Access Center... |
Information Today
December 2000 |
Wiley Partners with netLibrary, Lightning Source John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has announced that it has signed agreements with netLibrary and Lightning Source to provide the online distribution of about 750 new frontlist titles per year... |
Information Today
February 7, 2013 |
EBSCO Adds New Ebook Subscription Collections EBSCO Publishing released EngineeringCore and ITCore, two ebook subscription collections designed to support the learning and reference needs of engineering and technology professionals. |
Information Today
May 10, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases Ebook Subscription Collection for Business Professionals BusinessCore is designed to support the learning and research needs of business professionals. The collection is available as an annual subscription with unlimited access to the content. |
Searcher
May 2012
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Percentages The arrival of ebooks has left pbooks the last man standing when it comes to library collections. Now books are going the way of full-text journals and reference works. A library's primary collection is no longer primarily print. |
Information Today
December 2003
Paula J. Hane |
The Latest on Enterprise Search Products, E-Books, and More There should be a steady supply of news to report, as vendors continue to announce new products and services through the end of the year. Here's a wrap-up of some of the news from the past month. |
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
February 2001
Paula J. Hane |
E-Publishing Competition Heats Up Traditional book publishers have had a tough time lately... |
PC World
November 2002
Brad Grimes |
Read Any Good E-Books Lately? Me neither, but here are some reasons you might want to try one. |
Information Today
June 5, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest ebrary Launches New Corporate E-Book Databases... ProQuest Introduces Newspaper Printing Service for Libraries... EOS Upgrades... etc. |
Information Today
December 2003
Paula Hane |
Stable and Poised for Growth Ingenta is marking its 5-year anniversary of serving the scholarly publishing community. Founded in 1998 through a public/private partnership with the University of Bath, the U.K.-based Ingenta has grown quickly and is now close to profitability. An interview with Ingenta CEO Mark Rowse. |
Information Today
January 12, 2009 |
ebrary Announces On-Demand MARC Records ebrary announced that customers can now immediately upload free MARC records for individual titles they purchase as well as e-books and other documents added to the company's subscription databases. |
Information Today
July 12, 2010 |
Credo Reference Adds More Titles From SAGE Reference Now, all SAGE Reference titles published between 2000 and 2010 as well as all titles to be published in 2011 will be available through the Credo Reference platform. |
D-Lib
April 2002
Adam Hodgkin |
Integrated and Aggregated Reference Services: The Automation of Drudgery Few books are large enough to justify an annual subscription for online access. One way round this problem is to develop an aggregation service through which a collection of books can be given additional weight and visibility, sufficient to warrant active web distribution... |
Information Today
November 1, 2004
Barbara Quint |
netLibrary to Offer Audio Books Over the Web Patrons of libraries subscribing to the program will be eligible to download the books to a wide and expanding range of portable electronic devices. Libraries will pay a fixed annual subscription fee based on their size and expectation of usage. |
Information Today
November 4, 2010 |
ebrary Launches Ebook Ordering System To help libraries more affordably and efficiently acquire, manage, and distribute e-books from leading publishers, ebrary announced it has launched a new ordering system with instant fulfillment and real-time collection management. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 5, 2010
Julia Hanna |
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing Book publishing is changing before our very eyes, even if the industry itself is fighting the transition with every comma it can muster. |
CIO
September 15, 2002
Carol Zarrow |
E-Pilogue for E-Publishing Two years ago, e-book evangelists were warning traditional book publishers that they'd better get on the e-book wagon fast, since the next two years were going to make or break them. But despite the tenacity of promoters, the future is uncertain. |
Information Today
June 28, 2010 |
Reference Universe now links to CQ Researcher and to CREDO Reference Reference Universe is an information service designed specifically to unlock a library's reference collection. |
Information Today
June 4, 2015 |
Credo Updates Its Collections Credo added content to its new Essentials Collections of curated, award-winning reference titles in subjects such as criminal justice, nursing, and psychology. |
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... |
D-Lib
October 2000
Carol Hansen Montgomery |
Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations... |
D-Lib
February 2003
Abby A. Goodrum |
Visual Resource Reference: Collaboration Between Digital Museums and Digital Libraries The question faced by libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions in this world of visual information is how to respond to a growing public demand for 'round-the-clock' networked accessibility to multimedia, images and image collections. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
Oyster, The "Spotify For Books," Is Taking On Amazon With E-Book Sales On Wednesday, Oyster announced it is heading into the general e-book sales market. This pits it against the e-book titans Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple. |
Information Today
December 19, 2011 |
Oxford Digital Reference Shelf to Re-Launch in 2012 This will be the essential hub to all Oxford University Press reference content, re-launching with improved functionality and design. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2003
Mick O'Leary |
QuestionPoint Fortifies Libraries in Internet Age QuestionPoint puts the collective expertise of libraries around the world at the service of an individual reference question. It promises to help libraries regain "information market share" from the public Web. |
Information Today
March 2003 |
Product News and Reviews ITI Publishes New Book, Renames Journal... The Accidental Systems Librarian... ISTA... ProQuest Enhances Information Products... Historical Newspapers... etc. |
Information Today
June 17, 2010 |
ABC-CLIO eBooks Available Through Gale Virtual Reference Library "By adding these titles to Gale Virtual Reference Library, we are expanding our reach and are providing librarians, students, and researchers with greater access to our ebooks," says Tom Fitzgerald, ABC-CLIO's vice president of sales. |
Information Today
August 12, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Wiley Online Library Replaces Wiley InterScience The year 2010 may go down in history for the most new platform launches in the information industry. |
Information Today
November 2006
Mick O'Leary |
Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works. |
Information Today
October 27, 2003 |
NewsBreaks MuseGlobal Launches MuseSeek for Consumers... LexisNexis to Provide Legal Research to Microsoft Office... OverDrive Adds New Publishers to Its Digital Library... |
Information Today
January 12, 2012 |
Credo Reference and Swets Announce New Partnership Under the agreement, Swets will incorporate Credo Reference with more than 1,500 reference works from more than 80 of the world's best reference publishers into the SwetsWise eBook catalog. |
Information Today
September 2002
Paula J. Hane |
Open eBook Forum Releases Industry Report In late July, the Open eBook Forum released a report that provides industry statistics, which the organization says show solid growth in electronic publishing and a positive significant shift in the perception of electronic book publishing. |
Information Today
September 17, 2012
Barbara Quint |
Literary Scholarship and More From Oxford Authoritative sourcing is critical in humanities scholarship, and few institutions in the world are more respected than Oxford University. Now the Oxford University Press has launched a new service, Oxford Scholarly Editions Online. |
