The Oxford-Google Digitization project – established in 2004 – has reached an exciting stage in its development with the Bodleian Libraries books digitized by Google now fully available to the academic community and the general public for the first time. Much of the material that the Bodleian collaboratively digitized with Google has only been available…
The report, which is the culmination of a 6-month research project and has the backing of leading publishers within STM, Humanities and Social Science, compares the changing reader behaviour between 2005 and 2012 and as a result looks at the impact on publisher and library web site design and function. Simon Inger, commenting on the…
eBook consumers are decidedly shifting to multi-function tablets and away from dedicated eReaders, according to the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)’s closely watched on-going Consumer Attitudes Toward EBook Reading survey. The fourth and final instalment in Volume Three of the Bowker-powered survey shows that tablets have risen by about 25 percent over the past year…
Also delivers Summon Suggestions in the Summon Discovery Service Serials Solutions® and the Japan Medical Abstracts Society (JAMAS) have dramatically improved access to Japanese-language article abstracts in Ichushi-Web through the Summon® web-scale discovery service. The inclusion of metadata from the JAMAS abstracting and indexing database for more than 5,800 journals covering medicine, dentistry and pharmacy…
Google thinks it’s important to shine a light on how government actions could affect its users. When Google first launched the Transparency Report in early 2010, there wasn’t much data out there about how governments sometimes hamper the free flow of information on the web. Google took first step toward greater transparency by disclosing the…
In August, Amazon Payments forced unglue.it to suspend campaigns. Since then, unglue.it has a new payment option (Stripe), is implementing new features, signing new rights holders, and releasing its first unglued eBook. Unglue.it is back in business. The five titles are being unglued are: Budding Reader Book Set 1: Cat And Rat (Ten Books) by…
John Wiley & Sons has launched StatisticsViews.com, a new website created for professional statisticians, analysts, students, and any user of statistics in interdisciplinary subjects as the first place to go when looking for any information related to statistical research. StatisticsViews.com provides all users of statistics with access to the best statistics information that Wiley offers,…
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has inked a partnership with The Sheridan Press, print and publication services provider to the STM and scholarly journal community. Through this partnership Wiley’s online only journal titles will be available as Print on Demand (POD) copies, delivered through Sheridan’s sophisticated production system. Starting in January 2013, a total of…
WorldWideScience.org now offers the capability to search scientific data collections. Six new data sources have been added to WWS.org, representing a significant milestone in improving access to scientific data from around the world. Users seeking scientific datasets can conduct a real-time, one-stop search and immediately gain access not only to the metadata but to the…
The University of Chicago has been awarded a GBP52,247 grant from the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme, funded by Arcadia, for the digitization and preservation of 60 rare and endangered Urdu language periodicals. With the grant, digital images of magazines and journals will be produced at the Mushfiq Khwaja Library and Research Centre in Karachi,…
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