(New York, 4 March 2013) ASME (the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) has announced the launch of the ASME Digital Collection (formerly the ASME Digital Library) on SCM6, an online publishing platform from Silverchair Information Systems. The state-of-the art platform will provide expanded accessibility and discoverability for ASME’s e-Books, journals and conference proceedings by leveraging…
(4 March 2013) De Gruyter, the international academic publishing house, announced today that it has signed an agreement with YBP Library Services (YBP), the academic division of Baker & Taylor, whereby nearly 10,000 titles from De Gruyter’s eBook program, e-dition, will be made available for purchase through GOBI (Global Online Bibliographic Information), YBP’s acquisition and…
The American Society of Civil Engineers has announced that the 2013 ASCE eBooks & Standards collection is now available for purchase at a special pre-launch rate. The collection will launch on ascelibrary.org on May 1, 2013. Access options include an annual subscription or one-time, perpetual access purchase. ASCE eBooks and Standards encompass all civil engineering…
(21 February 2013) On 21 February approximately 23,000 books, which had previously been provided only inside the NDL, became available on the internet after copyright clearance. The materials include works of Kunio Yanagita and Eiji Yoshikawa, whose copyrights expired in January 2013. Newly added materials can be searched and read in the Digital Library from…
The article in the Asahi Shimbun, 29 January 2013, https://librarylearningspace.com/national-diet-library-joins-digital-wave-will-offer-books-online/ was followed by more news from the National Diet Library. Regarding the stance of the eBook distribution experiment of the Agency for Cultural Affairs In 2010, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), and…
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…
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