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October 29, 2012 |
Ten More University Presses Join Project MUSE UPCC Book Collections New and backlist titles from all publishers will be available on the MUSE platform where students and researchers will have access to more than 23,000 titles from more than 80 UPCC publishers.   |
Information Today
October 10, 2011
Nancy K. Herther |
University Presses Lead the Way for Publisher-Based Ebook Systems University presses seem to share natural affinities for innovative ways to reach their audiences. |
Information Today
June 6, 2011 |
More Publishers to Participate in UPCC eBook Collections on Project MUSE To date, a total of 64 university and scholarly presses have contracted to include their ebooks in the initiative. |
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. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2012 |
EBook Buzz: University Presses and Ebooks: A New Horizon What's the buzz about? EBook Buzz, ONLINE's newest column, will discuss and debate the advances of ebooks in libraries and scholarly publishing. |
Information Today
September 27, 2012 |
Project MUSE and Portico Partner to Preserve UPCC Ebooks Working together, Project MUSE and Portico will ensure that the ebook offerings of the UPCC -- 73 presses and more than 15,000 books at the time of signing -- will remain available for future scholars, researchers, and students. |
Information Today
August 18, 2011
Barbara Quint |
Project Muse Beta Tests New Platform Integrating Ebooks With Journals Project Muse is a leading provider of digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences serving millions of users through its subscription arrangements with some 2,500 libraries. |
Information Today
December 19, 2011 |
New Project MUSE Platform Goes Live Jan. 1, 2012 At the launch of the new platform, more than 14,000 books from 66 university presses and related scholarly publishers will be available alongside MUSE's more than 500 electronic journals. |
Information Today
March 8, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases First Subscription Ebook Collection eBook Academic Subscription Collection supplies full-text ebooks covering a broad spectrum of academic subjects from business to science and engineering to the humanities. Nearly 70,000 titles are included. |
Information Today
July 18, 2011 |
Cambridge University Press to Launch Platform for Other Academic Publishers From October 2011, University Publishing Online will provide libraries with ebooks and related database products from a variety of academic publishers worldwide. |
Information Today
May 6, 2013 |
ebrary Adds Titles From Wiley to Academic Complete Academic Complete serves as a foundational, growing collection with more than 86,300 scholarly titles from which libraries can pinpoint patron needs and drive strategic ebook acquisition. |
Information Today
November 13, 2008 |
Palgrave Macmillan to Launch New Ebook Platform Palgrave Macmillan will launch its own ebook platform, Palgrave Connect in January 2009. The platform will offer libraries a flexible approach to building an ebook collection in the humanities, business, and social sciences. |
Information Today
April 30, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases 39 New Ebook Subject Sets These sets provide libraries with convenient ways to begin or expand their ebook collections with current, reputable content from leading publishers. |
Information Today
September 26, 2011 |
EBSCO Publishing Releases New Ebook Subject Sets These additional subject sets reflect the rapid growth of EBSCO's ebook collection offered to libraries in convenient collections grouped by subject matter. |
Information Today
May 8, 2008 |
Ingram Digital and Oxford University Press Offer More Titles Ingram Digital and Oxford University Press agreed to offer a comprehensive list of OUP titles through Ingram Digital's MyiLibrary platform, an aggregator of online ebook and econtent resources. |
Information Today
August 6, 2012 |
Expanded Access to eBooks on EBSCOhost Now Available Through GOBI3 Librarians accustomed to selecting and managing their ebook collections through GOBI3 from YBP Library Services, now have additional access options for the more than 320,000 ebook titles from eBooks on EBSCOhost. |
Information Today
November 29, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest PubSub Launches New Features for Blog Tracking Service... Kompass Adds Download Feature and New Portal Access... Project MUSE Announces New Titles and Pricing... |
Information Today
February 24, 2011 |
EBSCO Publishing Releases 24 New Ebook Subject Sets The subject sets are part of a rapidly growing collection of eBooks that are offered in convenient collections grouped by subject matter. |
Information Today
March 4, 2014 |
EBSCO Releases New Ebook Subject Sets EBSCO Information Services added 28 new subject sets to its collection of prepackaged ebook sets for libraries looking to begin or expand their collections. |
Information Today
January 7, 2016 |
Credo Updates Essentials Collections Credo introduced new content to its Essentials Collections and curated 10 of them by subject so libraries can offer foundational scholarly titles to their patrons. |
Information Today
October 15, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces 15 New Ebook Subject Sets These sets of titles from leading publishers are designed to simplify collection development by helping librarians start or enhance their ebook programs with subject-specific ebooks. |
Information Today
July 29, 2014 |
Axis 360 Gains Ebook-Filtering Tool Librarians can now filter out content from shared collections in Axis 360 that they do not want to be viewable in their catalogs. |
Information Today
March 24, 2011 |
Preview of eBooks on EBSCOhost Now Available--Goodbye NetLibrary The preview will allow librarians and end users to see how their library's collection of ebook titles from EBSCO/NetLibrary is being integrated into EBSCOhost. |
Information Today
March 28, 2011 |
Books at JSTOR Initiative Grows Four U.S. academic publishers announced plans to bring their scholarly books online at JSTOR -- Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, and California University Presses. |
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. |
D-Lib
February 2000
Peter Hirtle |
Editorial: On eBooks, Open Archives, and Libraries |
Information Today
January 13, 2011 |
University Presses to Publish Books Online at JSTOR Five leading university presses -- Chicago, Minnesota, North Carolina, Princeton, and Yale -- are at the forefront of a new effort to publish scholarly books online as part of the non-profit service JSTOR. |
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
March 7, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Library Publishing Coalition -- A Milestone in Evolution of Scholarly Publishing For the past year, representatives of some of the most influential university libraries in the country have been meeting and exploring the potential for library/press partnerships for scholarly publishing in the future. |
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
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
June 30, 2003 |
News Digest Proquest expands Canadian newspaper coverage... Project MUSE adds titles, announces pricing... LexisNexis acquires public records businesses |
Information Today
July 5, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest LexisNexis Headnotes has become integrated with Shepard's Reports to provide a more complete court case viewing service... Project MUSE, which provides online scholarly journals in the Arts, has signed up more than 20 journals for 2006... etc. |
Information Today
April 15, 2014 |
Random House Ebooks Now Available From EBSCO EBSCO Information Services now offers more than 30,000 frontlist and popular backlist ebooks from Random House on its EBSCO eBooks and Audiobooks platform. |
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. |
Searcher
December 2011
Charles Hamaker |
FEATURE: Ebooks on Fire: Controversies Surrounding Ebooks in Libraries While it might not matter to the occasional or recreational reader, the ebook presents a host of challenges for the role of the book as transmitter, carrier, and shaper of our written word cultural heritage. |
Information Today
June 27, 2013 |
Springer Introduces French and Italian Ebook Collections There are about 330 ebooks in the three French collections and more than 400 titles in the two Italian collections, all published in 2005 or later. |
Information Today
September 29, 2011
Dan Tonkery |
Amazon Launches Library Ebook Lending Support for Kindle and an All-New Kindle Family Support for ebook lending is a major departure for Amazon and is an important milestone for libraries. Previously, Amazon only sold ebooks and did not support ebook lending for libraries even though there has been significant demand from libraries. |
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. |
Information Today
March 8, 2010 |
Two New Ebook Surveys Highlight Interesting Trends HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has released the full results of a fall 2009 survey of librarians on their attitudes and practices related to ebooks |
D-Lib
January 2000
David M. Levy |
Digital Libraries and the Problem of Purpose Which way ought we to go in digital library research and development?...I'll start by reviewing the problem of purpose in American public libraries and American academic/research libraries before turning to digital libraries... |
Information Today
September 17, 2013 |
Project MUSE Boosts Search Functionality Project MUSE customers can now use the new Advanced Search function to conduct searches from any page of the digital content provider's site. |
Information Today
July 25, 2011 |
NetLibrary Ebooks Now Integrated on EBSCOhost Platform EBSCO Publishing's collection of more than 300,000 ebook and audiobook titles (formerly from NetLibrary) is now integrated on EBSCOhost. |
Information Today
March 19, 2009 |
Project MUSE Expands Author Discovery Feature MUSE expanded the search to include links to more works by the author in Google Scholar and OCLC WorldCat. |
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. |
Information Today
December 2002
Richard Poynder |
A True Market Failure Professor Mark McCabe, an expert in mergers and anticompetitive practices at the Georgia Institute of Technology, talks about problems in the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing industry. |
D-Lib
October 2006 |
In Brief Documenting Pitt: Historical Publications and Images of the University of Pittsburgh... A Survey to Answer the Question: Why Are We Still Using Hardcopy?... In the News... etc. |
D-Lib
March 2001
Peter Hirtle |
Editorial: Planning Enduring Repositories for Digital Scholarly Communication |
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
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. |
