(9 February 2016) Manga is a one of the fastest growing genres available for digital library users. These Japanese comics continue to grow in popularity and are a perfect way to get teens excited about reading. Manga can be intimidating to purchase as there are a number of genres and the serialized format in which…
(1 February 2016, Ulaanbaatar) Today, The Asia Foundation’s Books for Asia program; Mongolia’s Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science; and Library For All kick off Let’s Read! Mongolia, a children’s digital library that will deliver an entire library of stories into the hands of underprivileged students. This project builds upon the November 2015 launch of…
(1 February 2016, Dubai) Al Manhal has collated eBook titles from the Arab and Muslim world in Arabic, English and French for two new collections: Contemporary References and Media & Communications. Contemporary References collection contains works from the entire Arab region, in a variety of forms, such as dictionaries, glossaries, thesauri, and encyclopedic material, and…
(13 January 2016) If you take the books out of a library, is it still a library? That’s the question the Georgia Institute of Technology pondered — and eventually answered in the affirmative — when administrators, faculty members and librarians there in 2013 began to define their vision of what the institute’s library should look…
(10 November 2015) Donald Barclay writes that the print-format scholarly book, a bulwark of academia’s publish-or-perish culture, is an endangered species. The market that has sustained it over the years is collapsing. Sales of scholarly books in print format have hit record lows. Per-copy prices are at record highs. In purely economic terms, the current…
(10 November 2015, Denver, CO) ODILO, a leading eBook provider in Europe and Latin America, has partnered with Electronic Information Solutions Inc. (EISI), a leading leading Philippines provider of library automation, information management, copy cataloging, library security systems, and subscriptions to eJournals and eBooks. EISI has been serving Philippine libraries since 1993. With over 180…
(9 November 2015) Publishing Technology reports that next week (9-16th November 2015) in the UK marks the inaugural Academic Book Week. Part of the two-year long Academic Book of the Future Project led out of University College London (UCL), Academic Book Week is a week-long showcase of academic book excellence aiming to open up a…
(6 November 2015) The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have been journal-publishing partners for more than 40 years. IPEM and IOP are today announcing that they will create a new eBook programme specifically designed for the medical physics and biomedical engineering communities. Professor David Brettle, President of IPEM…
(16 October 2015, Reuters) A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that Google’s massive effort to scan millions of books for an online library does not violate copyright law, rejecting claims from a group of authors that the project illegally deprives them of revenue. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected…
(15 October 2015, London, Heidelberg) Palgrave Macmillan and Springer have decided to align their eBook collections, collating all Palgrave Connect eBooks on SpringerLink and adding thousands more to the Springer Book Archives, as a result of the recent combination of Macmillan Science and Education and Springer Science+Business Media to create Springer Nature. Starting with the…
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