(New York / Heidelberg / Bournemouth, 8 April 2013) Today at the British UKSG Conference in Bournemouth, Springer announced that the Springer Book Archives (SBA) now contain 72,000 eBooks. This news represents the latest developments in a project that seeks to digitize nearly every Springer book ever published, dating back to 1842 when the publishing company was…
(The Hague, 3 April 2013) Today, the Royal Library, National Library of the Netherlands (KB) and Google Netherlands present the first results of the collaborative project in which they digitize 160,000 books from the KB-collection and present online through the KB web service boeken.kb nl . The web service searches 80,000 books free of charge.…
(2 April 2013) De Gruyter, the academic publisher based in Berlin, will be offering 100 titles from its e-dition series at the crowdfunding platform Unglue.it. Each individual title that raises USD2,100 at the site will be made available worldwide as open-access content. Unglue.it is making eBooks free and universally accessible to libraries and book lovers…
(28 March 2013) Single-title purchasing of selected digital books from the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC) on the Project MUSE platform is now available through MUSE’s partnership with YBP Library Services. Over 14,000 UPCC titles in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences may be discovered and ordered via GOBI3 (Global Online Bibliographic Information), YBP’s…
(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…
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…
(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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