(27 March 2013) The lending of eBooks by public libraries will enhance library services for users, but the interests of booksellers and publishers must be protected too, U.K. Culture Minister Ed Vaizey said today. A Government-commissioned report, An Independent Review of E-Lending in Public Libraries in England by William Sieghart, published today, sets out the…
(27 March 2013) Textbook price comparison tool, Textbookspy.com, has partnered with CollegeBookrenter.com, Bookrenter.com, Chegg.com, and eCampus.com to help students save money on the price of textbooks. Textbookspy.com compares prices of millions of textbooks instantly, searching hundreds of websites for the lowest prices. With the cost of textbooks on the rise, Textbookspy.com makes purchasing textbooks, textbook…
(26 March 2013) LexisNexis has acquired 55 analytical titles from Oxford University Press, U.S. Law Division, and will integrate them into the Matthew Bender® portfolio of legal products. 36 Intellectual Property titles highlight the portfolio. The titles are available for purchase on the LexisNexis Store. eBook and online versions will be available in June. Click…
New books and backlist titles to be available on the online platform SpringerLink (New York / Heidelberg, 13 March 2013) Springer has entered into a partnership with The American Meteorological Society (AMS) for the electronic distribution of their book titles for the next three years on SpringerLink (link.springer.com). The agreement includes the distribution of monographs,…
A new white paper from Springer examines eBook adoption at an undergraduate institution (18 March 2013, New York) Conventional wisdom holds that the availability of eBooks and their inherent utility – full text searchability, ease of access, etc. – are what drive use and acceptance. But are these the only factors behind the rate of…
(19 March 2013) Dr. Deanna Marcum, former associate librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress (LC) and Dr. TongLi Chen, former director of the Asian Library at Illinois University visited the National Central Library, NCL, Taiwan, on the 15th of March to discuss digitization of publications, legal deposits, manuscripts collection as well as…
On 7 March, a new collection, “Materials on the Allied Occupation of Japan”, was added to the NDL Digitized Contents. This collection contains 17,000 items from the Records of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS), and 700 items from the Records of Far East Command, Supreme Commander Allied Powers, and United Nations Command,1945-1960. USSBS…
(New York, NY 18 March 2013) – Wolters Kluwer Health and Amirsys, Inc., a leader in healthcare information solutions in radiology, pathology, and anatomy, are offering the Amirsys Imaging Reference Center and nearly 60 Amirsys eBooks via the OvidSP medical research platform. The Amirsys Imaging Reference Center blends thousands of high-quality, representative images and relevant…
Jeff O’Neal editor of Book Riot is surprised to find that some of the best and most influential novels of the 20th century haven’t made it to digital. Of Book Riot Readers’ Favorite 50 novels, 13 percent of the non-public domain novels are still print-only (5 of 38), including… Click here to see the list…
The National Library Board (NLB) will be adding 820,000 more eBooks to its collection by the end of this year, said Ms Sim Ann, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Communications and Information, on Friday. The announcement comes on the back of a steady increase in loans of eBooks over the years. According to NLB, the number…
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