(Palo Alto, CA, 22 January 2014) Academic Complete™, the flagship eBook collection from ProQuest’s eBook platform, ebrary, has added 20,000 titles to its selection of in-demand scholarly academic monographs. The additional titles come from renowned publishers such as Ashgate, Edinburgh University Press, Harvard University Press, Peter Lang, MIT Press, and Wiley. Academic Complete now offers a…
(20 January 2014) Monash University today became the first globally recognised organisation to be delegated a brand Top-Level Domain (TLD) by the internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet’s global governing body. The New TLD Program has been developed by ICANN to provide competition and choice to current Top-Level Domains such as…
(New York, NY, 21 January 2014) Wolters Kluwer Health today announced it has extended its global distribution agreement with the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM.org), the leading publisher of breakthrough biomedical research and best practices in clinical medicine, to be the exclusive provider of NEJM site licenses in China. Under terms of the new agreement, Ovid,…
(New York / Heidelberg, 22 January 2014) Springer kicked off 2014 by announcing two major accomplishments. The publisher completed its Springer Book Archives (SBA), a four-year project to digitize nearly every book it had published from the 1840s to 2004. Whereas the company originally anticipated that around 100,000 books would be part of this effort,…
(21 January 2014) Who hasn’t sat through presentations while the speaker drones on and on oblivious to the yawns of the audience who have resorted to fiddling with their mobile phones? One solution which ACCESS@librarylearningspace likes is to hold meetings in rooms without tables and chairs: you’re guaranteed to reach consensus rapidly on whether to…
Managing the storage environment for archival materials has always been a challenge. Temperature and humidity, insects and fungus conspire to degrade and destroy irreplaceable documents from antiquity to the present day. Biomist Technology, a Korean company known for its use of bio-friendly materials, is raising its profile in Asia by working with the iGroup to…
(20 January 2014) Over 100,000 images ranging from ancient medical manuscripts to etchings by artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Francisco Goya are now available for free download as hi-res images on the Wellcome Images website. Drawn from the historical holdings of the world-renowned Wellcome Library, the images are being released under the Creative…
(Hudson, OH, 20 January 2014) Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Lexicomp® Online™, its hospital-wide referential drug information solution, has been updated to reflect key concepts from the recent ACC/AHA Blood Cholesterol Guidelines. The American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines…
The Run Run Shaw library has announced its mobile library app “CityU Mobile Library” for iPhone and Android smart phone. It is available for free download at the Apple Store and Google Play. Find the app by searching “CityU Mobile Library”. CityU Mobile Library lets you access the Library Catalogue and follow what’s happening in…
(10 January 2014) The University of British Columbia invites you to a new exhibition “Knowing 360 Jobs in Old China from Cigarette Cards” (从烟画看旧中国的三百六十行) on the upper floor of the Asian Library from 6 January to 5 April 2014. Cigarette cards, also known as cigarette picture chips, first appeared in 1875 in North Carolina. They…
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