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May 9, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Amazon Finally Begins Work to Make Kindles ADA-Compliant On May 1, 2013, ebook giant Amazon announced new accessibility features for the Kindle reading app, making it easier than ever for blind and visually impaired customers to navigate their Kindle libraries, read and interact with their books.   |
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May 9, 2013 |
Baker & Taylor Releases New App for Axis 360 The new, free application for tablets and smartphones called axisReader allows patrons of libraries with the Axis 360 digital media platform to discover, checkout, and read ebooks in EPUB and PDF formats on their mobile devices. |
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May 2, 2013 |
Alexander Street Debuts Contemporary Documentary Collection Alexander Street Press's newest collection Filmakers Library Online: Volume II will feature 100 issue-based documentaries produced from 2009 to the present, adding perspective to virtually any academic program. |
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May 2, 2013 |
Thomson Reuters' Techstreet Launches Redesigned Website The website features enhanced usability and navigation that easily connects engineers, librarians, and technical professionals to mission critical industry codes and standards from the world`s leading Standards Developing Organizations. |
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April 29, 2013
Barbie E. Keiser |
Survey on U.S. Faculty Use of Scholarly Resources -- and the Academic Library The results provide "libraries, learned societies, and academic publishers with insight into the evolving attitudes and practices of faculty members in the context of substantial environmental change for higher education." |
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April 25, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries. |
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April 25, 2013 |
Thomson Reuters Offers New EndNote Basic -- Aimed at Mendeley Users The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters announced an enhanced version of its EndNote Basic online offering, with more features and functionality for users looking for a free alternative reference management tool. |
Chemistry World
April 22, 2013
Patrick Walter |
RSC takes top UK business award The Royal Society of Chemistry has received the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise for achieving substantial growth in its overseas scientific publishing business. |
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April 22, 2013 |
World Scientific Publishing Signs Ebook Agreement With YBP Library Services Customers will be able to access the publisher's 2012-2013 Front List Full Collection of ebooks that will be available for purchase from World Scientific Publishing through GOBI 3 (Global Online Bibliographic Information), YBP's acquisition and collection management interface. |
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April 18, 2013 |
Elsevier and O'Reilly Media Sign New Ebook Distribution Deal This expands the depth of ebooks available from O'Reilly in areas such as computer security and networking, and includes leading imprints such as Morgan Kaufmann, Syngress, Academic Press, Butterworth-Heinemann, Newnes, and Elsevier with more than 1,200 individual titles. |
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April 18, 2013 |
Publishers' Online Communities to Double by 2015 The number of publisher-owned online communities is set to more than double over the next 2 years, according to new research released April 17, 2013 by Publishing Technology at The London Book Fair. |
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April 15, 2013
Abby Clobridge |
The Wild West of MOOCs Massive Open Online Courses are the subject of many recent headlines. The issues cover everything from the future of higher education to using technology to deliver courses and textbooks on a global scale. |
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April 15, 2013
Barbara Brynko |
Elsevier Acquires Mendeley For some industry onlookers, the news that Elsevier acquired Mendeley in early April came as no surprise. But the initial rumors in late December/early January about the possible sale shook the foundations of the research community. |
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April 15, 2013 |
Wolters Kluwer Health Partners With CCC's Pubget Solutions Wolters Kluwer Health and Copyright Clearance Center, a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing and content solutions, announced a partnership to make available CCC's suite of Pubget document management solutions. |
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April 11, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Amazon Buys Goodreads to Bolster Its Advice Portfolio With links to more than 68,000 authors and more than 30,000 book clubs, Goodreads has become the clear leader for peer recommendations and social cataloging in its 6 years of existence. |
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April 11, 2013 |
Bowker, ebrary, and Choice Enhance Access to Resources for College Libraries Choice and Bowker, whose unique partnership created RCL, have launched a variety of enhancements which are used by academic libraries to identify core titles for scores of academic subject areas. |
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April 11, 2013 |
Wiley Selects TEMIS for Semantic Big Data Initiative Wiley will use TEMIS's Luxid Platform to enhance its STMS content, providing more sophisticated search and discovery tools to professional and academic researchers. |
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April 8, 2013
George H. Pike |
Court Finds No Fair Use by Meltwater in News Aggregator Case The Associated Press won a major victory against online news aggregator Meltwater when a Federal District Court in New York declared that Meltwater's "scraping" of AP news articles from the internet infringed on AP's copyrights. |
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April 8, 2013 |
Wolters Kluwer Health and Wiley Extend Partnership Wolters Kluwer Health announced an extension of its long-term partnership with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. to provide more than 460 premier journals on the Ovid medical research platform. |
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April 4, 2013 |
De Gruyter to Offer 100 Titles for Open Access Through Unglue.it Unglue.it is making ebooks free and universally accessible to libraries and book lovers alike. It works by users contributing an amount of their choosing to the book titles offered at the platform by publishers. |
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April 1, 2013
Paula J. Hane |
The Latest Pew Report on The State of the News Media "The State of the News Media 2013," by the Pew Research Center, concludes that the U.S. has a "news industry that is more undermanned and unprepared to uncover stories, dig deep into emerging ones, or to question information put into its hands." |
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