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Information Today February 4, 2013 |
EBSCO Releases eBook Public Library Collection eBook Public Library Collection includes more than 25,000 general reference ebook titles in a variety of subjects and topics including social sciences, language and literature, and science and technology. |
Information Today August 8, 2013 |
Thieme's Online Platform Adds Primary Source Data Thieme is an international STM publisher specializing in orthopedics, radiology, anatomy, and chemistry that publishes more than 500 books and 140 peer-reviewed journals each year. |
Information Today March 15, 2010 |
Infobase Ebooks Now Available Through Gale Virtual Reference Library This allows libraries to provide access to popular ebooks from Facts On File and Ferguson Publishing along with more than 4,500 existing electronic reference titles, expanding the library's offerings while avoiding duplicated resources. |
Information Today July 19, 2012 |
Elsevier Health Science Titles Now Available via eBooks on EBSCOhost The new agreement adds 965 health science titles to EBSCO's medical ebook collection with more than 580 of the titles representing coverage from 2010 to the present. |
Information Today December 1, 2008 |
Free Resource--Global Library of Women's Medicine The Global Library of Women's Medicine has launched online and is freely available in beta. More than 650 world experts have provided a definitive resource on the latest therapeutic options in women's medicine. |
Information Today September 8, 2008 |
Credo Reference Launches Improved Interface Credo Reference, the online reference library, has completely updated and enhanced its interface. |
Information Today October 7, 2014 |
Semantico Will Build Content Platform for IOS Press The publisher's growing collection of STM books and journals cover topics such as the computer sciences, mathematics, medicine, and the natural sciences. |
Information Today December 19, 2013 |
National Library to Digitize Norway's Books The entire digital collection is available for researchers working on-site at the National Library. The library estimates that it will spend 20-30 years digitizing all titles. |
Information Today December 11, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest H.W. Wilson to Introduce Retrospective Indexes... EBSCO Adds Music and Video Content to Review Resource... New Legal Content for HeinOnline... |
Information Today March 11, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces eBook Clinical Collection eBook Clinical Collection features more than 1,700 titles in medical specialties, nursing, allied health, and general practice. |
Information Today September 8, 2015 |
ProQuest Makes More Early European Books Available ProQuest launched Collection 7, the newest part of its Early European Books database, with 7,450 titles. |
Information Today September 17, 2009 |
Thomson Reuters Launches Century of Social Sciences Culled from more than 300 prestigious journals, information dating from 1900 is now available to researchers, faculty, authors, and students. |
Information Today March 17, 2015 |
TLC Displays Reading Levels in Its ILS Products The Library Corp. added Reading Level Integration to its Library*Solution and Library*Solution for Schools. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2010 Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2002 Mahesh S. Raisinghani |
Wireless Library Aids Student Productivity A wireless network permits a library to give all of its users high-speed access to the Internet as well as to its online resources. Students access the resources using laptops with wireless connections to the Internet and the library's intranet. |
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. |
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. |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2003 Mick O'Leary |
E-Book Scenarios Updated Almost 3 years ago in this column I made sweeping forecasts for the future of e-bookss). Some of them have occurred exactly as predicted, and stand as proof of my prescience and insight. As for others... well, let's not dwell on the past |
Information Today July 2, 2015 |
Thieme Chemistry Updates Synthetic Organic Chemistry Resource Thieme Chemistry rolled out the newest release of its Science of Synthesis 4.1, which is a full-text resource for methods and experimental procedures in synthetic organic chemistry. |
Information Today March 13, 2014 |
Thieme Introduces OA Platform It aggregates Thieme's OA articles on a single platform that is permanently available online for free. |
Information Today October 29, 2012 |
EBSCO Offers Library & Information Science Source Library & Information Science Source is a full-text resource designed to help librarians and researchers easily find the latest information in a rapidly evolving field of library and information science. |
Information Today November 19, 2015 |
Thieme Updates Science of Synthesis Thieme Chemistry rolled out Science of Synthesis version 4.2, which has about 2,400 printed pages of new content. |
Information Today March 12, 2012 |
3M Cloud Library Announces Integration With Polaris ILS The 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service will now be integrated with the Polaris Integrated Library System, allowing patrons at participating libraries to discover both physical and digital collections from wherever they are browsing. |
Information Today February 14, 2008 |
Scopus Adds 600 Titles at No Extra Charge The abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and web sources announced that it will add 600 titles to its database of 15,000 peer-reviewed journals. |
Information Today November 29, 2010 |
Springer Launches SpringerBriefs as Ebooks SpringerBriefs will cover a wide range of content from professional to academic across a variety of subject areas including business and economics, computer science, human and behavioral sciences, life sciences, mathematics and physical sciences. |
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 June 27, 2011 Barbara Quint |
The British Library Joins Google Books Google Books continues its march through the national libraries of Europe with the announcement of a deal with the British Library. |
Information Today |
Infotrieve Releases Mobile Library iPad App With the Mobile Library, users have secure access from anywhere to all corporate licensed electronic content and document repositories, as well as access to a collection of STM content. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2013 Knight et al. |
Automating Library Stock Ordering from Reading Lists This paper discusses taking data from the reading list system, and other library data sources, and using it in an automated system to make book purchasing suggestions to ease this task for library staff. |
Information Today December 10, 2013 |
Three Library Associations Shut Down The Communications Group announced the end of its association management division, which manages three national library associations. |
D-Lib March 2003 Susan Gibbons |
Building Upon the MyLibrary Concept to Better Meet the Information Needs of College Students Librarians cannot afford to be complacent in the knowledge that college students consider it easier to find resources using the Internet than by using the library. |
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? |
Information Today June 28, 2012 Katherine Allen |
New European Library Portal Launched The European Library is a new discovery service that provides access to the collections of the national libraries of 46 European countries, plus a growing number of research libraries. |
Information Today April 2, 2015 |
Society of Interventional Radiology Chooses Thieme as Publishing Partner The plan is to publish several books each year about topics in the interventional radiology field. |
The Motley Fool August 25, 2009 Anders Bylund |
Will Sony Kill the Kindle? Real books are so last century. Sony hastens the demise of printing presses and book binders. |
Information Today November 28, 2013 |
OverDrive Launches Streaming Video Service Pilot Patrons of the Los Angeles Public Library can borrow videos from the library's website and view them on any computer, tablet, or mobile device with an internet connection. |
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 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 December 2000 |
Innovative Interfaces Announces E-Book Integration, Millennium Implementations Innovative Interfaces, Inc. has announced the integration of netLibrary e-books into its INNOPAC and Millennium library automation systems... |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2011 Marydee Ojala |
Why I Library, and You Should Too As technology changes physical collections to electronic ones, and reshapes the entire notion of what a library is, the noun librarian is becoming even less appropriate for the profession. |
InternetNews November 7, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft to Scan Brit Books Scanning the collection of the prestigious British Library is a big job - and Microsoft wants to do it. |
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. |
D-Lib December 2006 Manduca et al. |
Digital Library as Network and Community Center: A Successful Model for Contribution and Use Some key approaches that have been successful for the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College (SERC) in engaging geoscience educators, both as contributors and users in the Teach the Earth library. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Chris Thompson |
Harvard's Alternative to Google Books Universities launch a digital public library which will archive every book in the public domain and offer them online to anyone. The library's prototype is expected to launch this year. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 Robert A. Schrier |
Digital Librarianship & Social Media: the Digital Library as Conversation Facilitator One of the ways digital librarians can cultivate a broader awareness of their collections is through social networking. |
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. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2009 |
In Brief Reflective learning for the net generation... The SKUA project: prototyping a distributed network of semantically aware shared annotation services... The Erewhon project: more comprehensive location-based services... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2005 Chris Balsano |
School Libraries Go Interactive An Illinois high school library uses online forms to stay in contact with the needs and requests of students and teachers. |
Searcher September 2002 Marylaine Block |
Doing it Right How some universities encourage the creation of prime research web sites |
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. |