14 February 2013 New York/Stuttgart)Thieme has announce the launch of Thieme eNeurosurgery, a unique online resource that gives the global neurosurgical community unprecedented access to Thieme’s entire neurosurgery collection. This platform enables users to search for procedures they want to brush up on, confirm references for their writing, and find visuals for presentations. Thieme eNeurosurgery…
(8 February 2013) IFLA has a new set of resources relating to eBooks and libraries. Providing access to eBooks is one of the most pressing issues facing libraries. Public libraries, in particular, are dealing with implications of rapidly changing business and access models. IFLA has previously issued a background paper on eLending during 2012, and…
(Hoboken, NJ, 7 February 2013) John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced that its 12,200 Online Books would be made available through the Research4Life initiatives of HINARI, AGORA and OARE, benefitting research and academic communities in 80 low- and middle-income countries including Malawi, Cambodia, and Bolivia. Research4Life provides 6,000 institutions in developing countries with free…
(Portland, Or. 21 January 2013). The world’s largest eBook distribution network for independent authors just got bigger. BookBaby, the popular one-stop self-publishing solution, just announced a new partnership with eSentral, the biggest eBook store in Southeast Asia. “I’m thrilled to add eSentral to our growing list of partners,” says BookBaby president Brian Felsen. “Now our…
(Heidelberg / New York / Seattle, 25 January 2013) Springer now offers online access to 37,000 historic, English-language eBooks with the launch of the Springer Book Archives (SBA) at the 2013 American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting (ALA MW). The SBA will be completed by the end of this year, and when finished researchers, students and…
(29 January 2013) The National Diet Library will soon offer some of Japan’s most famous epics and tales online from 1 February with help from Kinokuniya Co. and the Dai Nippon Printing Co. group. This is the first time that the library has scanned its books and allowed private companies to turn them into e-books…
(New York, 25 January 2013) The popularity of digital textbooks may have hit a tipping point in 2012 as preference by college students climbed significantly, according to new research from the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)’s ongoing study of Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education. The first installment in Volume Three of the study,…
(Ann Arbour, Mich., 22 January 2013) ProQuest has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ebook Library (EBL), which will significantly expand its eBook delivery and aggregation capabilities with libraries worldwide. The acquisition will further ProQuest’s goal of enhancing the research experience, enabling users to seamlessly discover content across multiple formats including books, journals, dissertations, newspapers,…
New Zealanders are increasingly using digital library services such as computer and wi-fi internet access, eBooks, and audio books, while use of traditional services remains high. Recently released annual statistics on public library usage during 2011 and 2012 reveal this shift towards online services. The number of library internet users increased from 5.7 million in…
(New York, 15 January 15 2013) The MIT Press will partner with Oxford University Press to launch MIT Press Scholarship Online on OUP’s University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform to take advantage of a fully enabled XML environment with cutting edge search and discovery functionality. “I am pleased that the MIT Press is partnering with…
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