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Information Today July 25, 2013 |
SwetsWise Gains Ebook Collection Swets signed an agreement with Edward Elgar Publishing making the publisher's 2,300 ebooks available in the SwetsWise catalog. |
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 May 27, 2014 |
YBP and JSTOR Collaborate on Purchase Options YBP Library Services, the academic division of Baker & Taylor, partnered with Books at JSTOR so librarians can make JSTOR purchases using YBP's GOBI 3 acquisition and collection management interface. |
Information Today August 2, 2010 |
SwetsWise 5.5 Goes Live This latest update introduces a host of updates and additional functionalities into the platform that will help to simplify the selection and acquisition procedures for both journals and ebooks within SwetsWise and provide additional renewal support features to all customers. |
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 |
Information Today September 10, 2007 |
MyiLibrary Partners With Swets to Provide a Single Point of Access MyiLibrary Ltd., a provider of digital content and part of Ingram Digital Group, announced that it has chosen Swets, a subscription services company, to enable customers to access ebooks and electronic journals from one easy-to-use and efficient point of access. |
Information Today January 21, 2008 |
Swets Launches SwetsWise 5.0 With New License Bank SwetsWise 5.0 adds new functionalities to SwetsWise Subscriptions, the central focus of the SwetsWise platform. |
Information Today June 25, 2013 |
EBSCO and Ingram Combine Ebook Collections More than 400,000 ebooks from EBSCO's academic collection are now available on Ingram's Online Acquisitions and Selection Information System platform. |
Information Today July 8, 2010 |
Swets Enhances the Evaluation Scope in SwetsWise Selection Support Customers can now evaluate titles at deal or package level as well as on individual title level. |
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 April 22, 2013 |
World Scientific Publishing Signs Ebook Agreement With YBP Library Services Customers will be able to access the publisher's 2012-2013 Front List Full Collection of ebooks that will be available for purchase from World Scientific Publishing through GOBI 3 (Global Online Bibliographic Information), YBP's acquisition and collection management interface. |
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 June 25, 2012 |
Penguin Group Launches Library Lending Pilot Program Penguin Group, The New York Public Library, and 3M Library Systems announced a pilot project that will make Penguin eBooks available to patrons of both The New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library. |
Information Today April 29, 2013 |
collectionHQ Expands Collection Development Tools to Ebook Titles The addition of these tools, called the ebook module, means that for the first time, librarians can easily access data that compare ebook and print holdings. |
Information Today August 13, 2012 |
ALA Releases Report on Ebook Business Models for Public Libraries The report, which was created by the ALA Digital Content and Libraries Working Group, suggests opportunities for publishers to showcase content through public libraries. |
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 January 17, 2013 |
eBooks on EBSCOhost to be Available Via Ingram's OASIS The new agreement will allow libraries to order eBooks on EBSCOhost through OASIS. EBSCO is the first outside ebook provider to be incorporated into OASIS. |
Information Today January 31, 2013 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Adds Ebook Library (EBL) to Its Collection ProQuest signed an agreement to acquire Ebook Library from Australia-based Ebooks Corp. Ltd. After the transfer is completed over the next few weeks, Ebook Library will begin its merger with ebrary, acquired by ProQuest in 2011. |
Information Today June 2, 2015 |
3M Cloud Library Provides Enhancements for Patrons and Librarians They will offer a redesigned web patron interface for easier browsing and the ability for librarians to reclassify ebooks' age ranges. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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. |
Information Today April 12, 2012 |
New EBSCOhost Collection Manager to Help Libraries With Ebooks and Audiobooks EBSCO Publishing is making it easier for library staff to search for ebooks and audiobooks and add them to their collections with the new EBSCOhost Collection Manager. |
Information Today October 1, 2013 |
Innovative Interfaces Enhances Ebook Discovery Librarians from any type of library can now access ebooks from 3M and local print and electronic collections, all from the Encore interface. |
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 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 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. |
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 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 February 4, 2014 |
IGI Global Ebooks Now Available via YBP IGI Global announced that it will now offer its ebooks through Baker & Taylor's YBP Library Services academic division. |
Information Today January 30, 2014 |
Swets and Ex Libris Group Collaborate on Library Operations Swets and Ex Libris Group partnered to streamline operations at academic and research libraries. |
Information Today July 9, 2012 Paula J. Hane |
The Challenging Landscape of Ebooks in Libraries The overall growth in digital content of all kinds, and in particular, the growing importance and acceptance of ebooks, has clearly presented great opportunities for libraries, as well as plenty of challenges. |
Information Today October 17, 2011 Nancy K. Herther |
Kansas Leading the Fight for Fair Ebook Access in Libraries The Kansas case brings up a variety of important issues and problems with ebooks today: The issues of platform, buyers rights, and the very structure of the ebook industry. |
Information Today September 12, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces eBook Business Collection EBSCO Information Services launched eBook Business Collection, a new assortment of ebooks for academic libraries from publishers such as Wiley and Cambridge University Press. |
Information Today June 23, 2015 |
e-Libro Grows Its Premium Collection e-Libro added 10,000 ebooks to its premium offering from Spanish-language publishers. |
Information Today August 2, 2012 |
Chinese Ebooks From Apabi Coming to EBSCO Discovery Service The ebooks from Apabi are designed to offer a vast collection in a variety of subject areas to researchers in higher education, public libraries, corporations, and government. |
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 January 7, 2008 |
AAAS Reverses Its Decision on Science Pullout From JSTOR The American Association for the Advancement of Science announced it has reversed its earlier decision to pull its flagship publication, Science, from JSTOR, the scholarly electronic journals archive. |
Information Today March 18, 2013 |
Ex Libris Primo Central to Search SwetsWise Online Content Ex Libris Group, a library automation vendor, announced that mutual customers will be able to search the SwetsWise Online Content ejournal gateway via the Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic materials. |
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 28, 2008 |
OverDrive Now Offers Penguin Group Audiobooks and eBooks to Public Libraries Public libraries can now lend downloaded audiobooks and ebooks by authors such as Stephen King and Nick Hornby to their patrons. |
Information Today November 8, 2010 |
JSTOR and Serials Solutions Partner to Enhance Discoverability of Resources A pilot project will allow students and researchers at institutions subscribing to the Summon web-scale discovery service to automatically find their library's Summon service search box when they use JSTOR. |
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 April 16, 2012 |
OverDrive to Preview Library Ebook Data at London Book Fair Data from OverDrive's global library network to be made available to participating libraries and publishers includes information about ebook and digital audiobook title circulation, book demand and holds, as well as web traffic and general demographics. |
Information Today August 2004 Paula J. Hane |
Ebooks Corp. Announces New Ebook Lending Platform The company worked closely with the library, technology, and publishing communities to develop EBL, which is said to offer a pioneering approach to lending. |
Information Today March 12, 2012 Dan Tonkery |
Booki.sh Goes Into OverDrive The little startup from Melbourne, Australia, Booki.sh is joining the rapidly growing Cleveland-based OverDrive, the leading distributor of ebooks and digital audiobooks to libraries. |