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Information Today April 18, 2013 |
Elsevier and O'Reilly Media Sign New Ebook Distribution Deal This expands the depth of ebooks available from O'Reilly in areas such as computer security and networking, and includes leading imprints such as Morgan Kaufmann, Syngress, Academic Press, Butterworth-Heinemann, Newnes, and Elsevier with more than 1,200 individual titles. |
Information Today August 13, 2012 |
Elsevier Adds Ebooks to ebrary's Academic Complete This marks the first time that these Elsevier titles covering subjects such as mechanical engineering, chemical and process engineering, and civil engineering, as well as environmental energy and alternative energy, have ever been available under a subscription model. |
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 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 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 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 May 23, 2011 |
Print Isn't Dead, Says Bowker's Annual Book Production Report Based on preliminary figures from U.S. publishers, Bowker is projecting that despite the popularity of ebooks, traditional U.S. print title output in 2010 increased 5%. |
Information Today March 5, 2001 Barbara Quint |
Bowker for Sale, All or in Parts Reed Elsevier plans to sell off several of its major reference publishing operations, specifically Bowker... |
Information Today May 29, 2007 |
Research Libraries Participate in ScienceDirect Ebooks Trial Elsevier announced that more than 900 research libraries and corporations from all over the world are participating in the trial of ebooks on ScienceDirect. |
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 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 November 6, 2000 Paula J. Hane |
Reed Elsevier, Thomson Negotiate Two-Step Deal to Buy Harcourt General Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier will buy U.S. rival Harcourt General, Inc. for $4.5 billion, and then will sell the college textbook division and other assets---including a large part of the corporate and professional division---to Canadian publishing rival The Thomson Corp... |
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 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. |
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ebrary Announces New Ebook Program for Pharmaceutical Companies From research and development, to manufacturing and distribution, to marketing and sales, ebrary provides the ebooks and digital content services that can help pharmaceutical companies increase productivity, while extending their information budgets. |
Information Today October 31, 2013 |
LPC Debuts Library Publishing Directory The Library Publishing Coalition published the first edition of its Library Publishing Directory, which provides an overview of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries. |
Information Today February 2, 2012 |
WorldCat Local Users to Search SciVerse ScienceDirect Journals and Ebooks With this collaboration, Elsevier is strengthening its commitment to the library community, simplifying research for library patrons and enhancing usage of its scientific publications. |
Information Today May 5, 2015 |
Elsevier Supports Researchers With Online Training Campus; Updates Article-Sharing Policies Elsevier launched Elsevier Publishing Campus, a free online platform that offers training resources to academic researchers. |
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 November 17, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles Cornell University Library has posted a list of about 200 Elsevier journal titles it is canceling for 2004. Harvard University says it is preparing for similar cuts in its Elsevier subscriptions. It's journal renewal time and the strain of the tough decision making is evident. |
Information Today July 2, 2015 |
Cenveo Publisher Services Provides Forum for STM Publishing Discussions This interactive series of education programs will bring together thought leaders and publishing executives who will discuss the industry's innovations, trends, and solutions. |
Information Today May 27, 2010 Marydee Ojala |
Reed Elsevier (Finally) Divests U.S. Trade Pubs: Facts and Fallout for Information Professionals When Reed Elsevier announced its intention to sell off its trade press unit, Reed Business Information, no one dreamed it would take more than 2 years to finalize or that the process would end up being so messy. |
Information Today March 2009 Marji McClure |
Turning a New Page in Ebooks Amazon brought renewed attention to ebooks, especially in the consumer market, with its 2007 launch of the Amazon Kindle and, most recently, the February release of the Amazon Kindle 2. |
Information Today April 30, 2007 |
Elsevier Enhances ScienceDirect Elsevier, the STM publisher, announced that it has added several new features to ScienceDirect in its latest release. |
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 December 11, 2000 Paula J. Hane |
Elsevier Science Previews New Web-Based Science Search Engine Elsevier Science has announced that it's developing a Web search engine for scientific information that will search both free and proprietary (access-controlled) content... |
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. |
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 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 November 3, 2011 |
Taylor & Francis Group Opens More Open Access In 2012, it will initiate changes to its open access program. It has also announced a new list of OA publications. |
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 December 5, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest EBSCO Expands International Humanities Coverage... Snapdata Launches Company Portraits Series... Elsevier Introduces New Nursing/Allied Health Database... etc. |
Information Today March 4, 2010 |
IEEE-Wiley eBooks Collection Added to IEEE Xplore Digital Library This will offer IEEE customers online access to the more than 400 ebooks that comprise the IEEE-Wiley eBooks collection, which spans numerous content areas including bioengineering, power and energy, and communication technologies. |
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 December 3, 2013 Brandi Scardilli |
The News of 2013: The Year in Review The hot topics in the information industry for this year included ebooks, massive open online courses, and open access. |
Information Today June 7, 2004 Robin Peek |
Elsevier Allows Open Access Self-Archiving In a move that has stunned both the publishing community and the academic world, major journal publisher Elsevier is going to permit Open Access self-archiving for almost all of its journal titles. |
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. |
Information Today October 29, 2013 |
Elsevier Rolls Out New Legacy Collection Content Elsevier is adding new titles to its Legacy Collection, which will offer more than 9,500 digitized books on the ScienceDirect full-text database by the end of the year. |
Information Today October 18, 2012 |
HarperCollins, Publishing Technology to Build Global Product Manager HarperCollins Publishers, a subsidiary of News Corp., announced that it will roll out a new global publishing system, one of the largest undertakings of its kind to be implemented by a trade publisher. |
Information Today June 13, 2011 |
ebrary Announces New Corporate Computing Ebook Collection The collection features more than 210 titles in Certification & Compliance, Databases, Software Engineering, Internet & Web Development, and other subject areas from Wiley, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, and other leading publishers. |
Information Today May 24, 2012 |
ProQuest and Elsevier Health Expand Medical Licensing Agreement ProQuest and Elsevier Health are expanding their long-standing relationship for licensing of the Lancet family of medical journals to include 36 additional health science titles from Elsevier in ProQuest's information products. |
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 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 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 March 1, 2010 |
Elsevier Launches New Online Book Series: Elsevier Insights This is a new online book series covering topics in areas such as life and physical sciences, engineering, computer science, tourism, and finance. |
Information Today July 16, 2013 |
LexisNexis Improves Digital Library Functionality LexisNexis Legal & Professional, part of Reed Elsevier, enhanced its Digital Library elending solution with new features and functionality. |
Information Today July 26, 2012 |
Kno Delivers New Platform for Elsevier's Pageburst Digital Books Elsevier announced that Kno, Inc. will provide its newest platform option for one of Elsevier's lines of digital books. Pageburst, which encompasses Elsevier's nursing and health professions books in a digital format. |
Information Today April 30, 2001 Richard Poynder |
The Debate Heats Up Are Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corp. Monopolists? |
Information Today November 2004 Tom Hogan |
The Fall 2004 ASIDIC Meeting The fall 2004 meeting of the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) examined the issues surrounding open access (OA) publishing. Many questions were raised and many views expressed, but few conclusions were drawn. |
Information Today October 23, 2014 |
Elsevier Offers Medical Reference Digests The series uses updated content from Elsevier's Clinics Review Articles database that is targeted to specific practice areas such as asthma, obesity, and pain management. |