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February 16, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Etextbooks Attracting Involvement of the FCC, Education Department, and Higher Ed The focus on etextbooks continues as even the federal government makes major strides into taking the school textbook into the 21 st century.   |
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February 16, 2012 |
Wolters Kluwer Health Expands Distribution Agreement With NEJM Under the terms of the agreement, Ovid will be the only medical research aggregator to distribute current, nonembargoed NEJM content to institutions and their clinicians, researchers, and students. |
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February 16, 2012 |
Ingram's Vital Source Now Working With Blackboard Ingram's Vital Source is now providing access to its etextbook platform through Blackboard Learn, one of the most widely used learning management systems. |
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February 16, 2012 |
China/Asia on Demand Metadata Accessible via EBSCO Discovery Service The agreement allows for metadata from this valuable collection of research literature from Asia to be added to the Base Index of EDS. T |
Fast Company
February 13, 2012
Jennifer Miller |
How Booktrack Creates Custom Soundtracks For E-Books The era of crotchety old ladies yelling "Turn down your book!" draws nigh. |
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February 13, 2012
Robin Peek |
The Cost of Knowledge Versus Elsevier: 5,600 Signatures and Growing Timothy Gowers, a Cambridge mathematician and winner of the coveted Fields medal in mathematics, began The Cost of Knowledge website petition to publicize his own personal boycott of Elsevier, thus encouraging others to do the same. |
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February 13, 2012 |
ALA Reaches Out to Ebook Publishers; Penguin Terminates OverDrive Contract American Library Association president Molly Raphael led an ALA delegation to New York recently to meet separately with representatives from publishers Penguin, Macmillan, Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Perseus. |
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February 6, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Social Review Site Goodreads Dumps Amazon's Metadata Goodreads is now using metadata from Ingram, "the largest wholesaler of books in the U.S.," according to Goodreads founder and CEO Otis Chandler. "Our agreement with them will ensure accurate and reliable information for the foreseeable future." |
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February 6, 2012 |
SAGE Journals Available Via Mobile Devices SAGE announced that its entire online journal collection is now available in a mobile-optimized format with the help of HighWire Press' Mobile Web Interface. |
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February 2, 2012 |
WorldCat Local Users to Search SciVerse ScienceDirect Journals and Ebooks With this collaboration, Elsevier is strengthening its commitment to the library community, simplifying research for library patrons and enhancing usage of its scientific publications. |
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