STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a Japanese user interface to Scopus. The interface provides Japanese users with the ability to find their way through the product in their local language.

Japanese users will now be able to find the research information they are looking for more efficiently - expanding beyond Scopus' basic search functionalities to utilising more advanced features such as personalisation and alerts. As additional support all in-product help files have been translated into Japanese to further increase product understanding, helping Japanese librarians in their teaching and usage of Scopus.

According to Tetsu Ikeda, Director, Science & Technology, Elsevier Japan, this local-language interface will help Japanese users accelerate the speed of their research, conduct analyses, determine their research strategy, provide trainings in a more efficient and effective way and gain information critical to develop their academic career.

Covering the world's research literature, Scopus claims to be the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Featuring smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research, Scopus was designed and developed with input from over 500 users and librarians internationally. Its unique database contains abstracts and references from nearly 20,500 peer-reviewed journals from more than 5,000 publishers worldwide, ensuring broad interdisciplinary coverage.

Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, US, has entered into a partnership with DataLore Inc. in which the two companies will work together to offer branded eBookstores to schools and colleges located throughout the Caribbean region.

The partners are currently developing a new eBook platform specifically for educational institutions in the Caribbean. The Caribbean Shared Educational Resource Service will provide customised eBookstores for participating schools and colleges. From these branded eBookstores, students will be able to purchase their eTextbooks and other digital content, as well as access those eBooks at any time and from any device.

The customised eBookstores will be powered by Impelsys' iPublishCentral digital publishing software platform, which allows publishers to warehouse, deliver, distribute, market and sell their eBooks without making significant capital or engineering resource investments on their own.

Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, US, has announced the release of iPublishCentral 4.1, the latest version of its award-winning digital publishing software for publishers.

iPublishCentral is a comprehensive platform that allows publishers to warehouse, deliver, distribute, market and sell their eBooks without making significant capital or engineering resource investments on their own. This means that publishers are able to quickly monetise their digital assets by selling eBooks to institutions, retail partners and directly to consumers.

The new release of the software includes a number of enhancements to the iPublishCentral Reader that make it easier to read eBooks and other digital content on-demand, from any location, on iPads, iPad Minis and Android-powered mobile devices. These features enable publishers to better serve the needs of their retail and institutional customers for mobile access to eBooks.

Ingram Content Group Inc., US, has added a new content access model to its MyiLibrary e-content platform to provide libraries greater flexibility in e-book lending.

Access Model, MyiLibrary's latest model, enables libraries to purchase a set of access credits for an e-book and lend it simultaneously to multiple patrons for a set cost, and lending period. For libraries, the model can easily eliminate turnaways due to concurrent use, and provides libraries with a relevant tool to make the most out of high usage titles. The Access model is compatible with MyiLibrary's other popular acquisition models including Perpetuity, Patron Selection and Short-Term Loan.

Ingram's MyiLibrary platform provides a single source for content hosting, archiving, discovery, access and purchasing. More than 3,000 academic, professional, and public libraries around the world have integrated the platform into daily lending activities, and have access to more than 400,000 titles that cover all major disciplines. Using the platform, library patrons can read content online, or download to a PC, laptop or digital device.

Ingram Content Group, the provider of a range of physical and digital services to the book industry, has announced that it will now offer Random House, Inc. US titles to libraries via the MyiLibrary platform.

Random House will add more than 36,000 titles to Ingram's MyiLibrary e-book platform. Titles will be both frontlist and popular backlist titles from all Random House imprints and each of its publisher-distribution clients, including Beacon Press, National Geographic Books, North Atlantic Books, Quirk Books, Smithsonian Books, Soho Press and Wizards of the Coast.

The MyiLibrary platform is said to be one of the fastest-growing e-book access solutions in the library community today. Used by thousands of libraries around the world, it seeks to provide a full range of resources and purchasing options, from single-title acquisition to publisher and genre-specific subject collections. Ingram's coordinated e-book solutions are stated to give libraries meaningful tools to make the best use of budget dollars. Patrons that use the platform have the flexibility of obtaining content via download as well as mobile options where content can be read on the most popular e-reading devices on the market today.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Russian government has officially selected Scopus as a tool for its national research assessment. Measuring research performance forms a significant part of Russia's 'Science and Technology Development in 2013-2020' program as declared by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in 2012.

The aim of Russia's 'Science and Technology Development in 2013-2020' program is to create an internationally competitive and well-functioning R&D sector, one in which efforts to modernise the economy are supported by science, technology and innovation. Within the programme there is an emphasis on research assessment, measuring not only quantity but also quality of research output. Using data from Scopus, the Russian government will be able to map out its national research landscape, and compare it with other countries.

Covering the world's research literature, Scopus claims to be the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Featuring smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research, Scopus was designed and developed with input from over 500 users and librarians internationally. Its unique database contains abstracts and references from nearly 20,500 peer-reviewed journals from more than 5,000 publishers worldwide, ensuring broad interdisciplinary coverage.

Scientific and medical information resources provider McGraw-Hill Professional, US, has announced that it is offering an enhanced purchasing programme for its McGraw-Hill eBook Library, a digital platform delivering access to its premium content (MHeBookLibrary.com). The new purchasing alternative – perpetual access – is designed to give libraries more flexibility in acquiring the company's digital content to meet the growing demands from their patrons for e-books.

The McGraw-Hill eBook Library includes nearly 2,000 titles in collections that are continuously updated with new e-books. Users can access hundreds of thousands of pages of content from authors who are said to be leading authorities in the areas of engineering, computing, medical, business and student study aids.

Academic libraries will be interested in reference works such as Harrison's Manual of Medicine, Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing and the complete catalogue of course study aides, Schaum's Outlines. Public libraries may expect to find a wealth of titles on careers and business skills, student and career exam study guides and the series of ‘How to Do Everything' books on consumer technology.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its official collaboration with the Siberian Regional Universities Consortium, providing 9 universities in Central Siberia with access to ScienceDirect and Scopus beginning in 2013. This will provide Siberian researchers with access to research literature from around the world, allowing them to stay abreast of scientific developments in their field.

The Siberian Regional Universities Consortium led by Novosibirsk State Technical University was established in November of this year. The Siberian region of Novosibirsk is one of Russia's key scientific research centers making a significant contribution to Russia's science and innovation community.

ScienceDirect is a premier full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and 11,000 books. The platform offers search and retrieval functionalities that enable users to work effectively in the knowledge discovery process. It carries an ongoing innovation aiming to revolutionise the traditional format of the academic paper, the interactive elements, enhanced online-readability, alerting services, and linking options to external datasets help researchers to build insights at the article level. ScienceDirect now has now more than 16 million users. The wide reach makes it an ideal place for scientists to publish and disseminate their research findings.

Covering the world's research literature, Scopus claims to be the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Featuring smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research, Scopus was designed and developed with input from over 500 users and librarians internationally. Its unique database contains abstracts and references from nearly 20,500 peer-reviewed journals from more than 5,000 publishers worldwide, ensuring broad interdisciplinary coverage.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has launched the Read service on its global knowledge platform, OECD iLibrary. With this service, anyone, anywhere can access OECD full-text content, right down to the level of individual chapters and tables. Read content is optimised for browser-enabled mobile devices and can be read online wherever there is an Internet connection. They are also shareable and embeddable.

With tablets likely to displace laptops and desktops as the main reading device for many patrons in the coming years, adding a tablet-friendly version to OECD iLibrary means the needs of librarians are met too. Patrons can expect to discover, share and use subscribed OECD resources more easily, encouraging usage. Sharing OECD knowledge with class and colleagues is simpler than ever, thanks to the social media tools included. Use of Read content is fully aggregated in the COUNTER statistics provided to registered institutions.

The Read service is seen to demonstrate OECD's continuing commitment to making its content accessible for all, whether at a subscribing institution or not. Using Read, anyone can fact-check and access OECD full-text material. OECD iLibrary is stated to be delivering more and more OECD knowledge, with downloads 40 percent higher than last year. Now, with the introduction of Read on OECD iLibrary, OECD knowledge is not only accessible for everyone, but shareable too.

Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, US, has announced that the innovative new Bowker 'Book as an Android App,' is powered by Impelsys' award-winning iPublishCentral software platform.

'Book as an Android App' allows authors and small publishers to use Bowker's popular www.myidentifiers.com to create Android-compatible eBook apps from any PDF or ePub document, opening new sales channels such as Google Play and the Amazon App Store.

Bowker Identifier Services provide authors and small publishers with the resources that enable customers to find and purchase their books. After an author has written a book, myidentifiers.com provides the path to publish – through the assignment of ISBNs and barcodes – and sell the title through enhanced discovery.

iPublishCentral is a comprehensive platform that allows publishers to warehouse, deliver, distribute, market and sell their eBooks without making significant capital or engineering resource investments on their own.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Scopus is officially confirmed as one of the primary requirements for the research assessment of all Russian universities. Dr. Alexander A. Klimov, Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Russia, formalised this decision through Scopus’ inclusion in the Government’s regulating act titled ‘Russia’s Assessment of Higher Education Effectiveness.’

As the Russian Ministry of Education and Sciences enforces international competitiveness of Russian education and science, applying international standards and practices for evaluation of the quality of higher education and its research is a crucial step in the process. With Scopus now recognised as the official tool for effective research assessment of Russian universities, the Government aims to map its research performance and international research collaboration trends more effectively, as well as support its research funding strategies objectively.

Covering the world's research literature, Scopus claims to be the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Featuring smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research, Scopus was designed and developed with input from over 500 users and librarians internationally. Its unique database contains abstracts and references from nearly 19,500 peer-reviewed journals from more than 5,000 publishers worldwide, ensuring broad interdisciplinary coverage. Direct links to subscribed full-text articles, library resources and other applications like reference management software, make Scopus quicker, easier and more comprehensive to use than any other literature research tool.

BioOne, US, a web-based aggregator of research in biological, ecological and environmental sciences, has announced that five new titles and their not-for-profit publishers have joined the 2013 BioOne Collections. The journals and their respective publishers are: Marine Resource Economics, published by the Marine Resource Foundation; Cryptogamie, Algologie, Cryptogamie, Bryologie, and Cryptogamie, Mycologie, three journals from France's Association des Amis des Cryptogames; and Applications in Plant Sciences, a new, open access, online only publication from the Botanical Society of America.

In 2013 BioOne will be home to 176 total publications, 127 (72%) of which are ISI-ranked. Furthermore, 60 (34%) of BioOne's titles have their current content available online exclusively through BioOne, and 38 (22%) are titles based outside of the US. In addition to its two subscribed collections, BioOne is now home to thirteen open access publications, freely available to all users.

The titles will make their BioOne debut on January 2, 2013. Title lists in a variety of formats are available to download on the BioOne website.

BioOne also announced that as of December 31, 2012, Journal of Crustacean Biology, published by The Crustacean Society, will cease adding new content to BioOne. Subscribers may contact Brill, JCB’s new primary publisher, with any questions. In accordance with both BioOne standard policy and Project Transfer guidelines, all issues previously hosted on BioOne from inactive titles will remain accessible to subscribers in perpetuity.

The University of Chicago Press has reportedly announced an agreement with Oxford University Press to launch Chicago Scholarship Online via OUP’s University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform. Chicago becomes the second major American university press to sign on to OUP’s e-book platform, following the University of California Press, which signed on last fall to launch California Scholarship Online, and the 10th press overall to partner with OUP on UPSO.

UPSO offers university presses their own individually-branded monograph repositories, powered by the Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) platform. UPSO is part of a growing field of university press-driven competitors in the digital monograph field, including efforts by Cambridge University Press, the University Press E-Book Consortium (which merged with Project Muse Editions last year), and, an e-book effort by JSTOR, an extension of the popular non-profit e-journal platform.

UPSO content is available in XML, as well as available to download as PDF, and is fully cross-referenced and cross-searchable, with 'clickable citations' from bibliographies and footnotes, including OpenURL and DOI-linking support. It also offers mobile functionality. The OSO platform, established in 2003, is well-known, and well-reviewed among academics.

STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has redesigned its E-Journals platform, improving usability and technological functions. Medical and health professionals can now access E-Journals wherever they are – in the library, at the office or on the go. With its user-friendly search, E-Journal offers convenient, efficient access to the online content of 150 journals.

The completely re-launched user interface makes the online journal database Thieme E-Journals more user-friendly and easier to navigate. Abstracts, full-text versions, additional material, images and videos are now only a click away. Clear, intuitive icons represent functions like bookmarks or bibliographic information downloads, helping scientists and doctors in hospitals and independent offices integrate the knowledge platform in their daily routines.

At the core of the improved usability are enhanced search options. The new online platform integrates a so-called ‘facet search’. The new ‘image view’ option lets users view only illustrations of their selected articles. This is especially useful in image-focused areas like radiology.

Doctors, scientists, physiotherapists, and other medical professionals can now also access journal articles and other content via their smartphones or mobile online devices. This allows users to research information from anywhere, anytime. They can view illustrations and videos on the go, access articles, etc.

Thieme E-Jounals currently offers digital content from 150 scientific and medical journals. Articles available online cover medicine, chemistry, veterinary medicine and other areas pertaining to health professions including physiotherapy and patient care. In addition, the knowledge platform offers videos, podcasts, and audio files on various medical issues. Content overviews and article abstracts can be accessed free of charge. Full-text versions of individual articles are available for a fee. Individual subscribers can access digital versions of the journals without additional cost. Libraries, research centres, hospitals, or corporations can purchase customised title licenses.

UK-based online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd has announced the launch of Scolaris, the new digital publishing platform for scholarly and academic publishing. The product launch took place at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, and was attended by a select group of industry professionals.

Scolaris is the next generation integrated content platform, engineered to manage the complexities of journals, reference works and dictionaries. It builds on the success of its predecessor SIPP and features specific new functionality for the journals sector.

According to Richard Padley, Managing Director of Semantico, Scolaris is a blazingly fast system that has been designed around the company’s industry successful SIPP platform. It features new functionality and enhanced features.

Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of SAGE Knowledge: the ultimate social sciences online library. Launch demonstrations and trials will be available at the forthcoming ALA conference in Anaheim.

Launching with more than 2,500 titles, SAGE Knowledge includes an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content, including encyclopaedias, handbooks, advanced textbooks, scholarly monographs and professional development titles. The platform allows researchers to cross-search and seamlessly access a wide breadth of must-have SAGE book and reference content from one source. SAGE Knowledge also includes selected works from Corwin and CQ Press.

Available in Beta since March, more than 1000 institutions have already trialed SAGE Knowledge, including current SAGE Reference customers who will be migrated onto the new platform.

For readers, SAGE Knowledge offers titles in full text HTML as well as pdf download. In addition to quick and advanced search options, titles can be browsed through book portal pages and table of contents. Content is discoverable by major search engines at the title and chapter level to ensure students find SAGE content no matter where they start their search. Personalisation features are provided to create reading lists and save searches. Functionality to enable easy social sharing of materials and citation options are also provided.

Libraries are being offered a range of flexible purchasing options, including mix and match of reference titles as well as collection and subject bundles. MARC Records and COUNTER reports will be available. All DOIs are registered for each title and chapter deposited in CrossRef.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Scopus, which claims to be the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature, is interoperable with the Lattes Platform, Brazil’s national database for research and science activity, through a newly developed application.

The new Curriculo Lattes Application links Scopus to the Lattes Platform providing easier access to the extensive research author data contained in Curriculo Lattes, a part of the Lattes Platform, which contains the résumés of Brazilian researchers, students and technical professionals.

Developed using the Elsevier Application Framework, the Curriculo Lattes App will be featured on each Scopus Author Details page. Currently 11,000 Brazilian authors in Curriculo Lattes are mapped to matching Scopus author IDs allowing users to access relevant profiles easily between the two databases. More Brazilian researchers will soon be mapped in Scopus and added to the application.

Covering the world's research literature, Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Featuring smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research, Scopus was designed and developed with input from over 500 users and librarians internationally. Its unique database contains abstracts and references from nearly 19,500 peer-reviewed journals from more than 5,000 publishers worldwide, ensuring broad interdisciplinary coverage.

Ingram Content Group, a provider of a range of physical and digital services to the book industry, has announced that more University Presses are working with Ingram and its comprehensive MyiLibrary e-book platform to expand the reach of content to more readers worldwide.

The most recent university presses that have selected MyiLibrary to expand content reach include the University of South Carolina Press, University of Arizona Press, University of Minnesota Press, Southern Illinois University Press, University of New Mexico Press, University of Arkansas Press and the University of Ottawa Press.

With more than 250,000 titles covering all major disciplines, Ingram’s MyiLibrary platform claims to be the fastest growing online e-book aggregation platform for libraries. The platform offers libraries the flexibility to acquire and access content on individual title, publisher-specific, or subject collection level based on unique requirements and resources. Almost one thousand titles have been added from the most recent presses using the platform.

The latest University presses that have added content to the MyiLibrary platform join Duke University Press, Princeton University Press, University of Michigan Press, Vanderbilt University Press, University of California Press, and others that are already using the platform.

ebrary, a ProQuest business, has announced Extended Access for titles purchased under a single-user license. Extended Access reduces up-front costs to the library, eliminates speculative purchases of multiple copies, and prevents turn-aways when titles are in use.

There are several ways that libraries can purchase e-books from ebrary. They can buy individual titles and packs outright, automate purchases through their e-approval plans, and buy titles that are triggered based on usage through patron driven acquisition.

With Extended Access, libraries can now more cost-effectively purchase titles under a single-user license and ensure access. If a title is in use, and another researcher needs it, the library can upgrade to a multi-user access model when available, purchase another copy, or take a short-term loan. The process can be automated and seamless to end-users, or libraries can receive email notifications and trigger the additional purchases themselves.

Extended Access also provides an advantageous way for libraries to complement their Academic Complete subscription with perpetual archive titles. Academic Complete, ebrary’s flagship subscription product named as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, offers simultaneous, multi-user access and now includes over 75,000 scholarly e-books. The thousands of libraries throughout the world who use Academic Complete as their base collection can now more affordably purchase additional titles with access on-demand.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has reached an agreement with Russia’s Skolkovo Foundation, providing access to SciVerse Scopus and SciVal Funding. Skolkovo aims to strengthen the links between Russian and international science, technology, education, entrepreneurship and investment communities.

The Skolkovo Foundation manages direct investments in the Skolkovo Innovation Center, Russia’s hub of intellectual capital, a city of high tech industries stimulating the development of break-through projects and technologies. The development of the Skolkovo Innovation Center was initiated in 2010 after President Medvedev announced his commitment to Russia’s investments in R&D. It has since attracted leading global technology companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Boeing and Ericsson, integrating Russia’s R&D programme into the international innovation environment.

Skolkovo Innovation Center is also home to a major overarching innovation-technology university with direct involvement of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Russia’s leading technology universities. Providing this university with secured access to SciVerse Scopus and SciVal Funding will further support Skolkovo’s core mission to foster Russia’s technological innovations and bundle research activities to address critical issues at a national as well as global level.

Covering the world's research literature, SciVerse Scopus claims to be the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality Web sources with smart tools to track analyse and visualise research. Its unique database contains abstracts and references from nearly19,500 peer-reviewed journals from more than 5,000 publishers worldwide, ensuring broad interdisciplinary coverage.

Elsevier’s SciVal suite of services supports academic and government leadership in evaluating, establishing and executing research strategies that optimise the performance of existing assets and maximise investments to enhance near and long-term productivity. SciVal tools leverage Scopus data to offer innovative yet authoritative solutions.

Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, US, has unveiled the latest version of its digital publishing software platform at BookExpo America (BEA) 2012 in New York City.

iPublishCentral is a comprehensive platform that allows publishers to warehouse, deliver, distribute, market and sell their eBooks without making significant capital or engineering resource investments on their own. The beta version of iPublishCentral 4.0 includes important enhancements for both publishers, who are seeking to monetise their digital assets by selling eBooks to institutions, and for end users, who are downloading those eBooks onto their preferred devices.

iPublishCentral 4.0 will help publishers increase their institutional sales in a few key ways. The new version enables institutional patrons to access eBooks from their iPads, laptops and desktop computers and read their titles offline, regardless of the authentication mode that is set-up for the institution. It includes content protection that enables publishers to control the expiration terms for eBook downloads and define them however they choose, giving them increased flexibility. Additionally, iPublishCentral 4.0 has a new feature that allows institutions to produce a custom report on how many times a title was opened and downloaded, providing greater visibility into trends.

The new version of iPublishCentral also includes some important usability enhancements for end users who download eBooks from any of Impelsys' publishing partners worldwide. These improvements are centered around creating a better reading experience while reading PDF versions of eBook titles, both online and offline.

The new iPublishCentral Reader is available now on iTunes and can be used as a generic reader for both ePub and PDF files: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ioffline/id510322929?mt=8.

Atypon, a provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry, has announced that the Massachusetts Medical Society has renewed their contract with Atypon to continue providing the platform for the New England Journal of Medicine.

The New England Journal of Medicine claims to be the most widely read, cited, and influential general medical journal in the world, completing its second century of service to the medical community in 2012. More than 600,000 people in 177 countries read NEJM each week, the majority of them on NEJM.org.

NEJM redefined the medical journal with the launch of its Literatum-powered website in 2010. The website gives users a deeper, broader, and more engaging experience through enhanced search and navigation, specialty and topic pages, interactive elements, and a number of integrated multimedia features.

Publishing-specific software solutions provider Publishing Technology plc, UK, has announced agreements with 10 new scholarly publishers, further strengthening its client portfolio and online collections.

In a series of recent signings, content from six academic publishers is now open to the ingentaconnect network of over 25,000 libraries, including James Nicholas Publishers, Paris Legal Publishers, the Institute of Noise Control Engineering, Science International Corporation, the Association for Perioperative Practice and Rosenberg & Sellier Editori.

Alliances have also been formed with several Chinese content providers to extend their reach outside of China, including three of the country’s largest publishers. China Publishing Group, Guangdong Publishing Group, Hebei Publishing & Media Group and Qingdao Publishing Group will soon command access to an international audience of academics and researchers.

With significant upgrades and development of the platform’s core technology currently underway and user testing of e-journal discovery, access and readership in progress, the ingentaconnect portal remains the largest and most comprehensive gateway to international content for the academic community.

Scientific and technical publisher Woodhead Publishing Limited, UK, and Asia Information Services (AIS), a Hong Kong-based distributor of books and e-content, have announced an exclusive 3 year e-deal. Under the deal, AIS will distribute WP's online platform, Woodhead Publishing Online (WPO), in the Chinese mainland market.

Woodhead's books on Materials Science, Engineering, Textile Technology, Energy, Environmental Technology and Food Science and Technology have always held a strong market position in China, where they are renowned for their high quality and for covering the latest topics in these fields. A recently acquired list of books on biomedicine will also be available.

Woodhead Publishing Online was launched in October 2010 at the Frankfurt Book Fair and is hosted on the MetaPress site. It has since become recognised by universities, research institutions and corporations worldwide as a significant resource of high quality content on new science and technology in the fields in which WP specialises.

Established in 1989, Woodhead Publishing is an independent international publishing company publishing in the areas of Food Science, Technology & Nutrition, Materials Engineering, Welding and Metallurgy, Textile Technology, Energy and Environmental Technology and Finance, Commodities and Investment and Mathematics.

The company's online platform, WPO comprises over 730 books containing over 13,000 chapters on materials science and engineering, food science and technology, and textile technology. Each year the company adds over 80 new books containing over 1,600 chapters to update the subject collections. Each book and each chapter provides an authoritative summary of key research, allowing readers to keep up-to-date with major trends.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the completion Kyoto University's study on research activities and competencies at universities across Japan. The study was based on analyses of data driven from Elsevier's multidisciplinary abstract and citation database, SciVerse Scopus.

Measuring the effect of the Japanese government's 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program, the study concludes that in five of eight research fields studied, research funded by the COE programme excels in terms of both quantity and quality of output. The COE programme is a large research funding scheme investing in research activities at universities across Japan,

Using data from SciVerse Scopus Dr. Takanori Ida, professor at the Graduate School of Economics at Kyoto University and lead researcher of the study, measured annual growth in number of papers published (quantity) and citations received (quality), and whether the research had been funded through the COE programme. In five of the eight research fields studied, research funded by the programme showed a significant increase in output as well as citations received compared to research not funded by the programme. These fields are: life science, humanities, medical science, information sciences and mechanical engineering.

Covering the world's research literature, SciVerse Scopus claims to be the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality Web sources with smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research. SciVerse Scopus was designed and developed with over 500 users and librarians internationally. Its unique database contains abstracts and references from nearly 19,500 peer-reviewed journals from more than 5,000 publishers worldwide, ensuring broad interdisciplinary coverage. In addition, SciVerse Scopus not only offers users citation information about the articles covered, but also directly integrates Web and patent searches.

Details on the published study can be found at http://www.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ida//4Hoka/21coe/COEsummary2.pdf#page=03.

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Information services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that US-based reference databases provider Credo Reference has recently joined the SwetsWise eBook catalogue with over 1,500 reference works from more than 80 of the world's best reference publishers.

Collections and titles are thoughtfully selected to offer broad coverage of subjects such as psychology, history, business, education, environmental studies and much more. The Credo Reference platform claims to be easy to use, highly customisable and appeals to users and researchers in both the academic and corporate library markets.

Credo Reference has been offering completely customisable reference collections for libraries since 2002. Credo's General Reference service empowers librarians and effortlessly delivers authoritative answers to millions of researchers worldwide. The Publisher and Subject Collections offer libraries deep reference content from highly-regarded publishers. literati by Credo, launching in 2012, will offer tools and services to improve Information Literacy.

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Library and information science publishing company Chandos Publishing, UK, has announced the launch of its e-book platform, Chandos Publishing Online. MetaPress, a division of EBSCO Industries, Inc., is the host provider for the site. Chandos is an imprint of Woodhead Publishing Ltd.

Chandos Publishing Online is a new electronic resource of library and information science, knowledge management and business information trends comprising over 200 e-books. Designed and created after thorough research amongst librarians and end users, the site is stated to be the first and only platform to offer the complete Chandos Publishing catalogue in one place.

The site is said to offer advanced features and functionality, such as fast and powerful search tools, extensive librarian support tools and personalisation features including fully customisable RSS feeds. A range of innovative purchasing options are also available including a Pick 'N' Mix option. Initially launched with Information Management and Library Management collections, these will be followed later in 2012 with Asian Studies.

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Ingram Content Group Inc., US, has announced that it has been selected by the Western Australian Group of University Librarians Consortium as the sole library content supplier. WAGUL comprises the libraries of Western Australia's four publicly-funded universities: Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University and the University of Western Australia.

Ingram provides the WAGUL consortium with a single workflow for overseas and local acquisitions through its comprehensive OASIS platform. Libraries in the WAGUL consortium have access to more than 13 million print and e-book titles on OASIS, as well as use of Ingram's MyiLibrary e-book platform. Libraries that work with Ingram also benefit from the recent launch of its Lightning Source print-on-demand operation in Australia and its relationship with local library suppliers, including ALS Library Services.

The Western Australian Group of University Librarians met formally for the first time in October 1992 as a cooperative initiative of the four publicly funded universities in Western Australia. The University of Notre Dame Australia joined the group in 1999. The group currently meets four times each year, and is chaired by university librarians in an annual rotation, with executive support provided by the host library for that year. WAGUL serves to increase and enhance access to scholarly information between member institutions for their staff and students, facilitate the regular exchange of information, acting as a consortium, were appropriate, for the purchase of resources and services.

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Project MUSE has announced that its new interface, featuring book and journal content integrated on a single platform, is up and running at muse.jhu.edu. Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.

Over 12,000 scholarly book titles from nearly 70 university presses and related publishers can now be located and browsed along with the content from MUSE's more than 500 journals. Further, new 2012 book titles will soon begin appearing on MUSE, simultaneously with their release in print.

Highlights of the new interface include faceted searching, with options to filter search results by content type (book or journal), subject area, author, and language of publication; enhanced browsing by subject area, title, or publisher, across books and journals or filtered by content type; search box on each page of the site, with predictive search terms; and new access icons to help users clearly identify content to which they have paid access, free sample content, and open access content.

Until January 31, search results will default to displaying all relevant results from both books and journals, to encourage discovery of the depth and breadth of new content now available on MUSE. Users at institutions which have purchased or subscribed to book collections on MUSE will have full-text access to content from those collections. Users may choose to pre-filter searches to just journals or just books, using the drop-down menu that accompanies the search box on every page. They may also use the new search facets to filter their search results by content type, and to only content for which they have full-text access.

Beginning February 1, search results will default to only content to which the searcher has full-text access. Users will then have the option to toggle the search to show all available books and journals relevant to a search, if desired.

MUSE continues to roll out many additional features and tools on the new site, with frequent updates planned over the next several days and weeks. Users are encouraged to provide feedback on any issues encountered when using the new interface.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the professional and scholarly publishing industry, has announced that the Society for Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) has selected the Literatum publishing platform to power the future of the SEG Digital Library.

SEG is an applied geophysics organisation, having over 32,000 members in more than 135 countries. The SEG Digital Library, which comprises the SEG Research Collection, SEG eBooks, and the EEGS Research Collection, is key to the Society's mission of research and education.

Atypon’s flagship publishing platform, Literatum is used to host more than 11 million journal articles, more than 25,000 eBooks, and many other types of professional and scholarly content. It enables publishers to maximise the discoverability of their journals, books, reference works, databases, and other types of content, and to implement new business models.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the professional and scholarly publishing industry, has announced that the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has selected its Literatum publishing platform to power the next generation of the ASCE Library.

Founded in 1852, ASCE represents more than 140,000 members of the civil engineering profession worldwide and claims to be America's oldest national engineering society. The ASCE Library provides a comprehensive online tool for locating information of interest across all disciplines of civil engineering.

The new Library will make use of Atypon's latest innovations in publishing technology to become a single destination for all ASCE technical content, augmented by powerful discovery tools including a taxonomy and data visualisations, placing ASCE firmly at the center of civil engineering knowledge.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the professional and scholarly publishing industry, has announced that the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has selected the Literatum publishing platform to power its new publications website.

SIAM exists to ensure the strongest interactions between mathematics and other scientific and technological communities through membership activities, publication of journals and books, and conferences. SIAM publishes 15 peer-reviewed journals and about 25 books each year, and has a backlist of 400 titles.

The new digital library will use Literatum for Mobile to be accessible using modern smartphone and tablet devices. In addition, more than one billion users will be able to register and log in with one click using their Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn accounts, making personalisation easier than ever before.

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OverDrive, a digital distributor of eBooks, audiobooks, and other digital content, has announced Test Drive, a programme for libraries to support demonstration and lending of eBook reading devices and tablets to their patrons. The programme includes device recommendations and guidelines for setup, maintenance and support, as well as best practices for institutions that want to stock and lend eBook readers and tablets to patrons.

The Sony Reader Wi-Fi (Model PRS-T1) has been selected as the first ‘Test Drive Approved' device. Test Drive Approved device requirements include compatibility with the library's eBook catalogue, direct Wi-Fi checkout and eBook download via an onboard browser or app, and copyright protection (DRM) and lending practices that conform to rules as required by publisher permissions. Test Drive devices are selected based on durability, ease-of-use for library staff and patrons to setup and maintain, as well as battery life, performance, and other usability factors.

Over the coming weeks and months, the company will be announcing additional ‘Test Drive Approved' eBook readers and tablets, including colour units for use with illustrated eBook genres. OverDrive is also testing and preparing to release information for Test Drive Approved accessible devices for print-impaired readers. Accessible eBook reading devices in the Test Drive program for US public libraries will support the Library eBook Accessibility Program (LEAP), OverDrive's free service to libraries that offer accessible eBooks in partnership with Bookshare.org.

The OverDrive Test Drive programme was developed in response to recommendations by The Council of State Librarians (COSLA) from its 2010 report that outlined the need for low-cost, library-friendly eBook devices that library staff could use to train and lend to patrons. Accessibility and upholding publisher rights and library policies were among the requirements listed in that report. OverDrive's Test Drive programme gives the libraries the tools needed to effectively and efficiently develop programmes to select and provide their staff and patrons with such devices.

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Digital course materials supplier CourseSmart LLC, US, has announced the launch of a new mobile web app. The app provides students and faculty with access to a catalogue of more than 20,000 e-textbooks and other digital course materials on a variety of mobile devices including the Kindle Fire and the iPad. It is said to bring thousands of digital course materials to popular mobile reading devices, furthering the company's professed mission of anytime, anywhere access to course materials in higher education.

The app is optimised to best support multi–touch screens of today's most popular mobile devices, and is designed to offer users the convenience to view all e-textbooks from a single location. It also offers the ability to search for a topic within the e-textbook including access to the table of contents; capability to zoom in on text and graphs as well as to add and view notes; and same page fidelity experience as found in a print textbook version equivalent.

There is no downloading process to access the free web app. On supported browsers, CourseSmart users with an active e-textbook account will automatically be prompted to sign into the web app when they begin reading their e-textbooks. Any future enhancements for the app are automatically updated.

The app is supported by Amazon Silk, Safari and Google Chrome browsers on the following devices: Kindle Fire, iPad and Android 3.0 and higher OS tablets. Users can find out more about the app at www.coursesmart.com/go/mobile.

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Digital course materials supplier CourseSmart LLC, US, has partnered with Desire2Learn Incorporated, (Desire2Learn), a provider of enterprise teaching and learning platforms, to provide an end-to-end integration that facilitates an efficient, one-stop process for students and faculty to access digital course materials. Students and faculty will have single sign–on access to CourseSmart's catalogue of over 20,000 eTextbooks and other digital course materials using the new CourseSmart integration within the Desire2Learn learning management system.

The CourseSmart integration within the Desire2Learn platform will enhance students' studies by utilising CourseSmart's eTextbook features including search, copy and paste, highlight, annotate, share and print. The single sign-on functionality enables students and instructors to access CourseSmart's digital catalogue via the Desire2Learn platform without having to remember a separate set of credentials for CourseSmart access.

The integration also provides instructors with free access to evaluate core higher education eTextbooks and eResources in use today from publishers who supply 90 percent of the market, and to select and use these course materials effortlessly in their Desire2Learn courses.

Without leaving the Desire2Learn course, instructors can easily create links to a required reading assignment, homework problems or other activities that reside in their digital course materials, and seamlessly share that information with their students.

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Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, US, has announced the release of iPublishCentral 3.2, a new version of its digital publishing software platform. The latest version features expanded support for delivering ebooks to mobile devices.

iPublishCentral is a comprehensive platform that allows any organisation to publish, deliver, distribute and market their eBooks without making significant development investments on their own. Earlier this year, the iPublishCentral platform was recognised as one of the Top 8 SaaS-based Apps in NASSCOM's 2011 Product Showcase.

Major enhancements to the iPublishCentral platform that were built into the newly released version include role based access control; enhancements to the subscription process for institutions; wider distribution; and enhanced reporting.

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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced the release of 64 new eBook subject sets bringing the total number of subject sets to nearly 200. These additional subject sets reflect the rapid growth of EBSCO's eBook collection offered to libraries in convenient collections grouped by subject matter.

Subject sets allow for quick and easy purchases in particular high-interest subject areas. Customer feedback played a large role in the development of some of the latest subject sets. Requests for particular subject areas prompted EBSCO to create many of the subject sets available in this September release. All of the subject sets were developed by a team of librarian collection development specialists.

Nine key collection areas were increased including: Science and Technology, Medical, Information Technology, Arts and Humanities, Business, Personal Growth and General Education, Social and Cultural Issues, Social Sciences and Vocational Education. The new subject sets provide an extensive array of subject matter including: American History, leadership and management, LGBT, social networking, nursing and teacher resources. A full list of the latest subject sets are available at http://www.ebscohost.com/ebooks/subject-sets.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has announced that its Literatum software is powering the new Taylor & Francis Online platform. Taylor & Francis Online hosts 1.7 million articles.

The Taylor & Francis Group, which is a division of Informa plc (LSE: INF) and includes such imprints as CRC Press, Psychology Press, and Routledge, publishes more than 1,600 journals and 3,000 new books each year and maintains an eBook backlist of 30,000 titles and a print backlist of 50,000 titles.

Additionally, Taylor & Francis has entered into a long-term product development agreement with Atypon. The agreement is a reflection of Taylor & Francis's commitment to provide innovative products to its customers.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that four UK Higher Education Funding Bodies (representing England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) will use Elsevier's SciVerse Scopus database as the sole bibliometric provider for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The Framework was developed to assess the quality of research in UK higher education institutions.

The team at Elsevier will provide automated matching between submitted publications and their associated metadata and citations in the Scopus database. This will be updated in real time, to assure that the maximum number of citations are counted. Assessment panels who have opted to use bibliometric data will be provided with citation information, as well as contextual information (i.e. the article is in the top 10 percent of cited articles) within each specific field.

Covering the world's research literature, SciVerse Scopus claims to be is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality Web sources with smart tools to track analyse and visualise research. SciVerse Scopus was designed and developed with over 500 users and librarians internationally. Its unique database contains abstracts and references from nearly 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, ensuring broad interdisciplinary coverage. In addition, SciVerse Scopus not only offers users citation information about the articles covered, but also directly integrates Web and patent searches.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Australian Research Council has selected SciVerse Scopus for the third time as the sole citation provider for the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment for 2012.

ERA is an Australian Government initiative to assess the quality of research undertaken in Australia's higher education institutions, using a combination of indicators and expert review by internationally-recognised researchers with expertise in research evaluation. The 2009 ERA trial covered two discipline clusters, namely Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences (PCE) and Humanities and Creative Arts (HCA). In 2010, the full ERA process was conducted.

The ERA 2012 assessment will open for submissions in March 2012 for all participating Higher Education providers. Further details about ERA 2012 are available at http://www.arc.gov.au/era/default.htm.

The Australian Research Council is a statutory authority within the Australian Government's Innovation, Industry, Science and Research portfolio. It advises the Australian Government on research matters and manages the National Competitive Grants Program, a significant component of Australia's investment in research and development.

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STM publisher Elsevier has announced that its Scopus data enables visualisation of how densely Max Planck institutes are linked with their local and international partners. This visualisation is part of the new Max Planck Science Gallery in the Science Forum building at the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, to open on September 8, 2011. This innovative multimedia exhibition center offers a platform to inform the general public how Max Planck scientists are working on the advancement of science and about potential impact of their research on future developments in areas such as medicine or energy.

Collaboration amongst scientists is seen to be increasingly important. About half of all scientific publications by German scientists are reportedly being produced in collaboration with international partner institutes. Elsevier's Scopus data helps researchers worldwide to identify current and potential research partners. The development of the visualisation at the Max Planck Science Gallery was coordinated by Information Visualizer Moritz Stefaner using Scopus data and shows how densely the Max Planck institutes are connected with other research partners at various universities and institutes.

In addition to the traditional Max Planck exhibitions like the 'Science Tunnel' and the 'Science Express', the Max Planck Science Gallery offers a novel experience centre and meeting point opening doors to the Max Planck Society.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has announced that the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education is using Atypon's Literatum platform to power its newly-launched website (www.AJPE.org).

The American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (AJPE) is the official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Its purpose is to document and advance pharmaceutical education in the US and internationally. The Journal considers material in all areas related to pharmaceutical education.

The new website offers a significant improvement in the user experience. Readers are greeted by a clean, spacious home page that highlights the latest content. Literatum provides AJPE staff with easy-to-use tools to change featured articles and post informational notices throughout the website.

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Digital course materials supplier CourseSmart LLC, US, has announced the beta launch of its latest reader platform providing users with online, offline, anytime, anywhere access to their eTextbooks. The first in the industry to utilise HTML5 technology for eTextbooks and coupled with the latest version of Mozilla Firefox 5.0, this cloud-based offering now provides the same productivity features whether users are online or offline.

Students who have active online eTextbook digital rental access will immediately enjoy the benefits of the new offline capabilities. Additionally, instructor textbook evaluation services will also be available on the new reader platform, allowing instructors free access to evaluate more than 90 percent of all core higher education eTextbooks whether online or offline. The new reader experience also extends to CourseSmart's productivity tools allowing users to highlight, search, copy, paste, take notes, share and print while offline.

The platform synchronises user notes across all modals, whether it is from their desktop computer, laptop, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android-based device, or any Web-enabled device.

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The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has partnered with Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, for the development and implementation of AIAA's new eLibrary website. The partnership will create an eLibrary that will offer users greatly improved access to all of AIAA's publications and conference proceedings, significantly reducing the length of time necessary to conduct research.

The eLibrary will be designed to appeal to aerospace science and engineering authors, editors, librarians, researchers and students, as well as to members of the general public with an interest in aerospace research and science.

Besides archiving all of AIAA's research assets under one roof, the updated eLibrary will offer the ability to save and schedule searches, highlight journal articles, download citations; sign up for alerts on subjects of interest to their research and post links to their research articles on a variety of social networking websites. The website will also be able to suggest other articles that might be of interest to them, greatly enhancing the flow of information and ideas in the collaborative research process.

The service is expected to be available in the first half of 2012.

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Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, US, has announced iPublishCentral 3.1, an enhanced version of its software platform that enables publishers to sell and distribute digital content on the Web.

iPublishCentral is a full-service electronic publishing solution that allows publishers to publish, deliver, distribute and market eBooks. The platform gives publishers all the tools they need to manage and monetise their digital assets without making significant development investments on their own.

In iPublishCentral 3.1, the company has rolled out new features to improve the reading experience for end users. Specific enhancements include the addition of keyboard shortcuts, the ability to highlight text and save those highlights, and a new offline reader that comes with the same look and feel as the online reader.

The new version also includes refined tools to help publishers increase their revenues by regulating access to content. With iPublishCentral 3.1, publishers can now set the maximum number of concurrent users at a title level when selling eBooks to libraries and large institutions, can support authentication programmes such as EZproxy and Athens in order to protect their content from outsiders, and enable search bots to better search for and discover books.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has announced that the Literatum publishing platform is now used to host more than 11 million articles.

Atypon passed 10 million articles hosted by Literatum seven months ago. The growth is driven primarily by the addition of new publisher clients; a small portion comes from clients' back file digitisation efforts and organic growth.

Literatum enables publishers to maximise the discoverability of their journals, books, reference works, databases, and other types of content, and to implement new business models, all with easy-to-use tools, backed by business and technical support from Atypon.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has announced that the American Public Health Association (APHA) has selected Literatum as its new publishing platform. APHA is the publisher of the American Journal of Public Health.

The American Public Health Association claims to be the oldest and most diverse organisation of public health professionals in the world. Through its flagship publication, the American Journal of Public Health, the Association communicates the latest public health science and practice to members, opinion leaders, and the public.

Using Literatum, the APHA will deliver enhanced topical collections of articles culled from the Journal. It is expected that these subspecialty entry points will make it easier for public health professionals to find information most relevant to them. In addition, current book titles from the APHA Press will be available online for the first time.

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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has announced that OECD iLibrary now provides usage statistics according to COUNTER standards, plus MARC records for all subscribers.

OECD now provides reliable standardised usage reports for all content on OECD iLibrary. The detailed usage statistics are provided for full-text downloads by title and month. This includes all content in PDF, HTML, XLS and Data downloads, ePub will be added shortly.

The iLibrary usage reports cover all content whether freely accessible or behind access controls. There is no duplication in the usage reported as the usage of each publication or dataset is reported separately in one of three reports dependent on the nature of the content.

OECD has also launched MARC Records initially for the books and serials in OECD iLibrary, available for all subscribers to download. MARC records are provided in MARC21 XML format according to U.S. Library of Congress specifications, and those for OECD journals and data products are scheduled for later this year.

OECD iLibrary is the global knowledge base for OECD's data and analysis. It contains all books and papers published since 1998, as well as a vast collection of statistics, with data going back to the 1960s and more than 80 countries covered. It provides integrated search results, showing all available file formats and languages, as well as links to previous editions. OECD iLibrary is projected as a powerful tool for people working at academic institutions, in the private sector and at governmental and non-governmental organisations.

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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), a 62,000-member organisation dedicated to the health of children, has introduced a new subscription model for unlimited institutional access to the rich medical content that resides in the AAP eBook collection.

The new platform, www.aapebooks.com, provides libraries, medical schools, hospitals and paediatric offices with instant electronic access to more than 90 renowned AAP publications, including full-text, visuals, data tables and clinical recommendations. The subscriptions are all-inclusive, so users have unlimited 24/7 privileges to download any content from the entire collection of AAP digital titles like Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines & Policies, Bright Futures, Pediatric Nutrition Handbook, Red Book Atlas, and Caring For Your Baby and Young Child: Birth To Age 5 are part of the collection.

The AAP eBooks site was developed in partnership with electronic content delivery solutions provider, Impelsys, with the use of the iPublishCentral software that is used by publishers and professional associations worldwide.

The AAP eBook Institutional Collection is available based on a five-tier pricing model that corresponds with the type of institutional customer (e.g., public library, hospital, medical school, etc.).

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Journal subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced the successful release of SwetsWise 5.7, the latest technical update to its information management and procurement platform. Claimed to be the only platform within the information industry to offer selection and management services for both eBooks and journal content, SwetsWise has been emboldened with a range of additional usability features and new functionalities with this latest release.

Some of the main features included in the 5.7 release relate to SwetsWise Selection Support, Swets' powerful and intuitive collection evaluation tool. The other main feature of the 5.7 release sees the full implementation of UserVoice feedback functionality into SwetsWise. This handy feature enables all users, publishers and Swets internal staff to collaborate and openly discuss improvements and possibilities for the platform.

Customers can enter the feedback area from any page within SwetsWise and quickly enter suggestions or queries into a public forum. Other users can also comment or vote on existing suggestions. All of this feedback will be moderated and infused into Swets' future development cycle. The full roll out follows a rewarding two month pilot of the UserVoice software, which generated a keen level of interest and participation among users.

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Journal subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that its information resource management and procurement platform, SwetsWise, has recently expanded its eBook catalogue to more than one million publications. Swets has signed agreements with a number of eBooks publishers and aggregators, bringing together a wealth of compelling content and creating an extensive collection of eBooks.

SwetsWise provides an intuitive interface for librarians and information managers to select and acquire eBook content. Customers are able to purchase both individual titles and eBook collections, under the same pricing and purchase models offered by publishers and aggregators directly.

123Library, Bentham Science Publishers, CABI, Canadian Electronic Library, CRCnetBASE, ebrary, Elsevier, Emerald, IOS Press, Karger, Ingram Content Group, MyiLibrary, Oxford University Press, Safari Books Online, Springer, Taylor & Francis and WorldScientific are among the eBooks publishers and aggregators who have agreed to make their content available in SwetsWise.

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Project MUSE has announced that 13 more scholarly publishers have signed contracts to participate in the UPCC eBook Collections, coming to the MUSE platform on January 1, 2012. To date, a total of 64 university and scholarly presses have contracted to include their ebooks in the MUSE/UPCC ebook initiative.

UPCC (University Press Content Consortium) collections will offer quality book-length scholarship, fully integrated with MUSE's full-text scholarly journals, with library-friendly access and usage terms and affordable tiered pricing.

MUSE will unveil a beta version of its new search interface combining both journal and book content in late summer 2011. The beta interface will include new post-search filtering options and feature free sample book content for libraries and users to explore.

The UPCC eBook Collections, available for access on January 1, 2012, will be offered for purchase, with perpetual access rights and unlimited usage, downloading, and printing. Book content will be in PDF format, searchable and retrievable to the chapter level. Pricing and purchase details for the book collections will be available no later than October 1, 2012.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has announced that scientific publisher World Scientific Publishing Company has selected Literatum as its new publishing platform.

Literatum will allow World Scientific to bring together all of its content products on a single platform for the first time. When it launches, the next generation WorldSciNet platform will enable researchers to search and browse a library of 85,000 journal articles, 4,000 books, and 1,000 conference proceedings.

Professional and scholarly publishers are using the Literatum platform to manage, deliver and monetise their digital content. Publishing organisations such as JSTOR, the American Chemical Society, de Gruyter, and Annual Reviews are using Literatum to provide controlled access to journals, books, reference works, and other types of publications.

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Scientific and medical information resources provider McGraw-Hill Professional, US, has announced the launch of the McGraw-Hill eBook Library. The move is in response to librarians' and patrons' evolving digital information needs. With this initiative, the company seeks to provide unlimited concurrent usage to the digital library so patrons can access high-quality curated content from world-renowned authorities.

The McGraw-Hill eBook Library will provide more than 1,000 titles in collections that are continuously updated with new eBooks. Users can access hundreds of thousands of pages of content from authors who are leaders in the areas of engineering, computing, business, medical, and student study aides.

Equipped with internal customer usage stats, the McGraw-Hill eBook Library allows librarians to monitor real-time usage to gauge actual demand of content and cater to the needs of the patrons/users/researchers. McGraw-Hill offers flexible subscription options which are the optimal model for librarians to get free monthly updates to the McGraw-Hill eBook Library's content and keep it constantly up-to-date.

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Grupo A, one of the leading STM publishers in South America, has announced a partnership with e-content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, US, to build a new online portal that will host the sale of full-text articles from some of its most important book titles published on McGraw-Hill and Artmed imprints.

Impelsys will power the new medical content portal with its iPublishCentral software. Easily customised to fit changing business needs and expanding functionality, iPublishCentral allows academic and STM presses to pick and choose the offerings they would like to make available, with minimal investment and maximum returns.

Grupo A was created in Brazil by Artmed publishing house in July 2010 as an umbrella for several imprints: McGraw-Hill, Artmed Editora, Bookman, Tekné, Artes Médicas and Penso. Artmed began as a medical book distributor when it published its first title in 1979 and continued to produce titles in the fields of medicine, psychology and education. The STM (Scientific, Technical and Professional) segment claims to be one of the most successful in Brazil, accounting for approximately 20 percent of the publishing market.

In addition to the design and development of the portal for the end user, Impelsys will provide end-to-end content services to Grupo A - including content conversion, content enhancements and loading content to the portal.

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Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press, US, has announced plans to launch an integrated online repository of academic video titles. Already the publisher of 10 distinct, discipline-specific streaming video collections containing more than 8,000 films, Alexander Street intends to rapidly expand its offerings to more than 10,000 titles in 2011 and to 20,000 by 2013.

The new platform, Academic Video Online Complete, will also make it possible for subscribers to cross-search all Alexander Street videos from a single interface. New collections will include Psychology, Health, General Science, Business and Economics, and Diversity Studies, among other topics.

As part of its rapid expansion, Alexander Street also announced the launch of three new video collections, each available to libraries and educational institutions via annual subscription or one-time purchase. These include Filmakers Library Online; Education in Video; and Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume II.

Currently the publisher is offering a one-month Sneak Peek access to all three new video collections. Libraries and educators who register at http://alexanderstreet.com/newvideo2011.htm will receive a username and password until April 30, 2011.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) has selected its SciVerse Scopus database to assist academic and government institutes throughout Spain in the tracking and analysing of research. FECYT is a public foundation that supports the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN).

FECYT, on behalf of several leading Spanish universities, the Spanish National Research Council and the virtual libraries of Spain's health system chose SciVerse Scopus for of its broad range of global content and its ability to track citations for research performance measurement. Over the next three years, universities, research centers, governmental research institutes and local health councils across Spain will use the data provided by SciVerse Scopus. The comprehensive abstract and citation database supports their research processes and drives knowledge transfer.

FECYT will also employ SciVerse Scopus to help research institutes throughout Spain get a better view of co-authorship and cross-border research collaborations to determine the role their researchers are playing in the global landscape. Moreover, by using this information, FECYT will be able to render improved support to the MICINN on research and innovation strategies and policies.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherland, has announced that the European Research Council (ERC) has selected its SciVerse Scopus database to assist in the tracking and awarding of funding opportunities for researchers throughout the world. The ERC is the European funding body managing the 'Ideas Programme' of the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme.

According to Elsevier, SciVerse Scopus represents the largest abstract and indexing database of peer reviewed literature in the world, and is the only database that contains data related to arts and humanities literature.

Over the next four years, the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA) will use the data provided by SciVerse Scopus in combination with a Current Research Information System, to track the success of the projects funded by the ERC in terms of publications and citations. Information provided by SciVerse Scopus will also help the ERC to fund research based on scientific excellence and, in the long term, to substantially strengthen and shape the European research system.

Set up in 2007 by the EU, the European Research Council (ERC) is the first pan-European funding organisation for frontier research. It aims to stimulate scientific excellence in Europe by supporting the very best, creative researchers of any nationality and age. It funds both senior research leaders ("ERC Advanced Grants") and younger, early-career top researchers ("ERC Starting Grants").

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Project MUSE has signed contracts with 27 scholarly publishers to offer their upcoming monographs in the humanities and social sciences as part of ebook collections on the MUSE platform. Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.

MUSE is partnering with many of the same publishers that currently contribute content to its electronic scholarly journal collections for the programme. Among those participating in the e-book initiative are: University of Michigan Press, Columbia University Press, Georgetown University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Penn State University Press, University of Illinois Press, Duke University Press and the Indiana University Press.

The first collections of frontlist monographs will be offered for purchase in fall 2011. Subject-based collections as well as a comprehensive collection of all available titles will be offered. Pricing and book title details are expected to be announced by late March.

Book content will be seamlessly integrated with MUSE's existing journal content, allowing users to search and browse across formats and easily discover related scholarship. Books will be offered in PDF format, searchable and retrievable to the chapter level.

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Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that the Delaware Division of Libraries is participating in its Public Library Complete pilot programme. Public libraries throughout the state of Delaware will now have simultaneous, multi-user access to more than 21,000 e-books from leading publishers. Also, Delaware public high schools will be eligible for complimentary onsite and offsite access.

Additionally, as part of the programme, the Delaware Division of Libraries may use ebrary's do-it-yourself e-publishing tool, DASH! (Data Sharing, Fast), to upload and share its own special collections and digitised materials with member libraries, other institutions, or freely on the web.

ebrary's Public Library Complete Pilot Program includes a growing collection of over 21,000 full-text e-books from leading publishers such as Random House, Penguin, The McGraw-Hill Companies, and Taylor & Francis. The programme also provides affordable, subscription-based pricing with simultaneous, multi-user access; free access for local public high schools in the public library's service district; DASH! for uploading, integrating, and sharing searchable databases of government forms, community college programmes, ephemera, special collections, and more; and complimentary marketing services and 24/7 web-based training with a real person.

ebrary is showcasing Public Library Complete and other products and services at the forthcoming ALA Midwinter, January 7-10, 2011, in San Diego, CA (booth #1701).

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Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that it has made significant traction in 2010. Among other achievements, the company increased its overall revenue by more than 30 percent over the previous year and doubled its sales in the global corporate market. Additionally, usage of ebrary products grew by more than 33 percent.

Key to the company's growth was the launch of new technologies and models including DASH! (Data Sharing, Fast), a unique and complimentary feature of many ebrary products including Academic Complete that enables customers to upload and integrate their own digital materials from the convenience of their computers. After a successful pilot programme, the company also launched a new Patron Driven Acquisition model along with a new ordering system that supports multiple models and provides librarians for the first time with real-time, do-it-yourself collection management including on-demand profiles and notifications.

ebrary continued to enhance its capabilities in 2010 with the launch of new bookshelves that can be shared via email and on the web; Lists, which enable librarians, professors, and others to create customised, searchable collections of ebrary titles; saved searches that notify end-users when new content is available that matches their interests; and support for the iPad.

Furthermore, in 2010 ebrary grew its selection of e-books and other authoritative content available to libraries by about 60 percent over the previous year and signed 35 new publishers bringing its total to 500. The company now has more than 76 out of the top 100 YBP approval publishers and offers a growing selection of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles and Doody's Core Titles.

ebrary's collection growth and product enhancements have also enabled it to tap new markets. In 2010 ebrary launched Public Library Complete, a program that includes more than 21,000 e-books with complimentary access for public schools. The company also shipped new products for the government, school, and corporate library markets including pharmaceutical and engineering.

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Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that the First Regional Library, which serves patrons throughout Northern Mississippi, is now offering ebrary's Public Library Complete programme.

As part of the Public Library Complete programme, patrons will now have simultaneous, multi-user access to a growing collection of more than 21,000 e-books in multiple subject areas including career development, fiction, practical life skills, arts & leisure, and more.

ebrary's Public Library Complete Pilot Program includes a growing collection of over 21,000 full-text e-books from leading publishers such as Random House, Penguin, The McGraw-Hill Companies, and Taylor & Francis. The programme also provides affordable, subscription-based pricing with simultaneous, multi-user access; free access for local public high schools in the public library's service district; DASH! (Data, Sharing Fast) for uploading, integrating, and sharing searchable databases of government forms, community college programmes, ephemera, special collections, and more; and complimentary marketing services and 24/7 web-based training with a real person.

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Bookshelf, the books division of the PubMed Central database, has announced that the books in Bookshelf have been given a new look as part of a redesign that is taking place in several stages. The Bookshelf redesign includes infrastructural improvements to facilitate the discovery of information at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

The first (and completed) stage is the redesign that improves how all book pages are displayed. The table of contents page of every book now displays the book's bibliographic data, such as the book title, author, publisher and copyright information. A thumbnail display of the book cover shows prominently and an abstract or excerpt from the book is displayed above the table of contents. On the right side of the page, related PubMed citations and history of recent activity are displayed. Where available, links to other NCBI resources, such as Gene and OMIM, are also present. These new panels mark the ongoing work to create rich links between NCBI resources and to maximise discoverability of related materials.

In common with PubMed, the blue NCBI header and search bar are displayed at the top of all pages. The standard NCBI footer links to many other NCBI resources.

Once inside a book, all pages have been given a more balanced and clean layout. The text of the page is more readable through improved page layout, typography, and standardised headings. Figures can be quickly previewed: a large version of the image pops up over the page when you mouseover the thumbnail. Clicking on the thumbnail opens the image in a new window and allows one to see the title and caption for the figure.

From the interior pages of a book, searching within the book is the default. However, one can expand the search to the whole Bookshelf, or search any of the other NCBI resources by choosing a different option from the dropdown menu next to the search box. One of the main goals of the redesign was to improve navigation. The next steps for Bookshelf include a new homepage and a redesigned search interface; a new browse tool; and new pages highlighting new and featured content.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has announced that Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) has selected Atypon's Literatum as the publishing software for its portfolio of scholarly open access journals. BQFJ's platform, QScience.com, is slated for launch in December 2010.

Literatum gives BQFJ and QScience.com support for rapid publication in multiple languages, sophisticated search, and the ability to integrate other content types, including eBooks, datasets, conference proceedings, and audio and video multimedia. Superior new features are planned for next year.

Professional and scholarly publishers are using the Literatum platform to manage, deliver and monetise their digital content. Publishing organisations such as JSTOR, the American Chemical Society, de Gruyter, and Annual Reviews are using Literatum to provide controlled access to journals, books, reference works, and other types of publications.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its 2011 eBook collections available for advance purchase and to be released on SciVerse ScienceDirect, its online scientific knowledge platform. The 2011 offerings total 439 titles spread across 24 distinct subject areas, with individual titles scheduled to publish between January 1 and December 31, 2011.

These eBook collections are comprised of high-quality content published through Elsevier's imprints including Academic Press, Pergamon, North-Holland, W.B. Saunders, Mosby and Churchill Livingstone.

With the 2011 eBook collections, SciVerse ScienceDirect now offers over 12,500 titles and includes eBooks (monographs), major reference works, and book & handbook series. These 439 new titles span 21 unique subjects within the science and technology disciplines, as well as the health sciences disciplines of clinical medicine, health professions, and veterinary medicine.

The benefits of anytime, online access to foundation content on the newly launched SciVerse ScienceDirect platform include increased return on investment by transferring budget from print books to online, providing more content to more users; increased discoverability via free MARC 21 records; greater interoperability via the SciVerse platform, with integration of content across the SciVerse suite for subscribed users of online books, journals and SciVerse Scopus plus discovery tools to accelerate research; and an image searching feature that allows users to quickly find an image or graphic on a particular topic.

Elsevier also offers flexible Frontlist 2011 discounts on eBooks subject collections, as well as the Pick and Choose option for select titles following their respective publication dates.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has announced that medical and scientific publisher Informa Healthcare has selected Literatum for Mobile as the cornerstone of its mobile content delivery strategy.

Informa Healthcare, a division of Informa plc, publishes authoritative research and analysis as well as up-to-date news for all sectors of the healthcare and life sciences community. Being able to access this content anytime anywhere is seen to be of critical importance to readers.

Literatum for Mobile claims to be the only product that provides a fully integrated solution for delivering the full text of professional and scholarly journals to institution subscribers—even if the reader is roaming outside of the institution network. All usage is included in the institution's COUNTER reports.

Non-Apple devices account for nearly 40 percent of Literatum for Mobile activations to date, reinforcing the need for a cross-platform mobile strategy. The Nielsen Company recently announced that Android is now the most popular operating system among people who bought a smartphone in the past six months.

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Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd., UK, has announced that the online edition of the UCL Hospitals Injectable Medicines Administration Guide, published by Wiley-Blackwell, is powered by the Semantico Information Publishing Platform (SIPP). SIPP can create micro-sites for specific publications, allowing the book to maintain its own identity. The site can focus on content and functionality for a specific user group, delivering an online resource with powerful searching and browsing capabilities and easy navigation.

The UCL Hospitals Injectable Medicines Administration Guide online edition is a practical, accessible web-based tool providing an essential resource for nurses and other healthcare professionals. The Guide offers key information and advice needed for the safe and effective administration of many injectable medicines available on the ward. It covers intravenous, intramuscular, and subcutaneous methods of administration and includes general advice on dealing with extravasation, osmolarity, pH, flushes and syringe pump compatibility. The alphabetically arranged tabulated monographs ensure quick access to information on key injectable medicines, including preparative details, stability, compatibility, and acute bedside monitoring.

The easy to navigate format and clear organisation of information on screen helps healthcare professionals quickly access the information they need at the point of care, facilitating professional decision making and promoting patient safety. The Guide will be updated regularly to ensure that the latest and safest information is provided.

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Project MUSE has announced that nine more university presses have signed contracts to participate in its new initiative to offer e-book collections alongside its electronic journal collections. Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.

The newly confirmed participants include Columbia University Press, Fordham University Press, Georgetown University Press, Syracuse University Press, University of Hawaii Press, University of Michigan Press, University of Texas Press, University of Wisconsin Press and Catholic University of America Press. With this, eighteen not-for-profit scholarly publishers are now contributing high quality front list monographs to MUSE's planned e-books collections.

Preliminary information gathered from the currently confirmed presses indicates that MUSE's initial Fall 2011 offering will contain more than 350 books, across a broad range of scholarly disciplines. In its first season, MUSE expects to offer a complete collection of all books in the programme and selected subject-based collections. Subject collections will be built around areas of critical mass among the specific books included, and are expected to complement MUSE's existing strengths in disciplines such as literature, history and religion.

MUSE e-book collections will be offered for purchase on a seasonal (Fall/Spring) basis, with the first collections available for Fall 2011. Specific details, including lists of included titles, and collection pricing, will be released no later than March 2011. MUSE is already in conversation with both North American and international consortia and libraries regarding e-book collection purchasing. From a user perspective, book content will be fully integrated with journal content on MUSE's trusted platform, offering a rich environment for discovery and research.

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Scientific and technology publishing Woodhead Publishing, UK, has announced the launch of its online platform Woodhead Publishing Online. MetaPress, a web hosting platform service for STM content, is the host provider for the site.

Launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010, Woodhead Publishing Online is a new resource of scientific, technical and information trends, comprising over 800 e-books, containing 12,000 chapters in Materials and Engineering, Food Science Technology and Nutrition, Textile Technology, Energy and Environmental Technology, and Finance, Commodities and Business Studies and Mathematics. Designed and created after thorough research amongst librarians and end users, the site offers extensive features and functionality and claims to be the only platform to offer the complete Woodhead Publishing platform in one place.

Initially launched with Food Science Technology and Nutrition, Textile Technology, and Materials and Engineering collections, these will be followed in early 2011 with Energy and Environmental Technology, Finance, Commodities, Business Studies and Mathematics. The next phase will be a separate site for the entire catalogue of Chandos Publishing, the publisher of books on library and information management which Woodhead acquired in 2009.

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Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, US, has announced the launch of its iPad module for iPublishCentral, the industry-leading e-publishing platform, to empower publishers to get their customised iPad apps and deliver content on iPad. The iPad module on iPublishCentral will be showcased at the ongoing Frankfurt Book Fair 2010, for the first time.

This new module will empower publishers to offer their customers content on iPad through their own customised iPad apps. The iPublishCentral platform is a scalable solution that empowers publishers to keep up with industry trends. The customised iPad app will allow users to connect effortlessly to the publishers eBookstore, access the catalogue of titles, preview content, and make instant purchases through their iPAD app, thereby opening up new opportunities for sales and content delivery.

Since its launch, many new features and functionalities have been added to iPublishCentral. Some of the other significant updates made to iPublishCentral include: ACS4 server integration that ensures publishers' PDF and EPUB files are protected and delivered onto eInk devices; Single Sign-On option for institutional users, that allows them to use their existing accounts to access content on iPublishCentral, with Shibboleth authentication; and redemption of pre-generated PIN codes, by users, to access content available on iPublishCentral even from a third-party portal.

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Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that it has collaborated with librarians and publishers to develop a new Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) model. With ebrary's implementation of PDA, libraries may create collections of titles of their choice, provide full access to end-users, and have titles automatically added to their permanent collection in real-time based on usage.

ebrary is offering librarians a choice of PDA, subscription and perpetual access e-books that can be ordered, managed and delivered directly within its interface.

Administrative functions for ebrary's PDA programme are consolidated within the ebrary interface along with other purchasing options for ease of use. All e-books selected for PDA are instantly added to the library's collection and integrated with content acquired under additional ebrary models including perpetual access and subscription.

Key features and benefits of ebrary's PDA include titles from various publishers such as ABC-CLIO/Greenwood and Elsevier; title selection tools including the ability to select by subject, publisher, price, publication date and other key parameters; and a profiling tool that automatically identifies appropriate content for PDA collection.

It also allows the ability to create and modify automatic notifications for newly available titles of interest; features a triggering system based on real usage; and offers real-time delivery of titles. Fund code management, free MARC records and weekly reporting are also available.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has introduced Literatum for Mobile, a pioneering product that enables professional and scholarly publishers to deliver their content to iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry devices.

Literatum for Mobile positions publishers for success by bringing the full power of Literatum, the leading platform for professional and scholarly publishers, to the mobile market. Individual and institution subscriber access to full-text content is seamlessly integrated with the core platform, as are COUNTER reports.

This is achieved through an industry-first access management scheme that transforms the device into a powerful authentication credential. A one-time process pairs a user's device with his or her profile and institution access. After completing the process, the user is instantly authenticated every time the app is launched. Literatum for Mobile is currently available as a public beta for launch client Annual Reviews.

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Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd., UK, has released a new control panel for the Semantico Information Publishing Platform (SIPP). The updated control panel features improved navigation and updated graphic design.

The control panel enables existing live sites to be updated with new material. It is also possible to upload new code-sets and test them in the live environment. This allows for testing to be done without interruption to the site, essential functionality for sites with a worldwide audience.

SIPP is a cost effective technology solution that provides publishers with their own publishing platform. More and more publishers are recognising the importance of having a central, stable online publishing platform that is under their control, while also pushing content out to vendors and aggregators to provide additional visibility. Using SIPP, publishers can create their own micro-sites which provide publishers with a consistent approach in managing business processes.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has announced that Literatum, its flagship platform for professional and scholarly publishers, is powering the new digital presence for the New England Journal of Medicine.

The New England Journal of Medicine claims to be the most widely read, cited, and influential general medical journal in the world. The journal is also the oldest continuously published medical periodical. More than 600,000 people in 225 countries reportedly read NEJM each week, the majority of them online.

Featuring an all-new design with enhanced navigation, the new NEJM.org is rich in content and features. Additions include 19 new specialty pages, innovative education and training tools, and the complete NEJM Archive, which includes every article NEJM has published, dating back to 1812.

Literatum is a leading platform used by professional and scholarly publishers to manage, deliver and monetise their digital content. Publishing organisations such as JSTOR, the American Chemical Society, de Gruyter, and Annual Reviews are using Literatum to provide controlled access to journals, books, reference works, and other types of publications.

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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has announced the availability of the OECD iLibrary, a new platform providing seamless and comprehensive access to statistical data, books, journals and working papers. The OECD iLibrary replaces SourceOECD and hosts all content equally so users can find - and cite - tables and databases as easily as articles or chapters. The citation tool for datasets and tables is new and unique to the OECD iLibrary.

OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD, International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998. This includes about 390 complete databases, 2,500 working papers, 5,500 books, 14,000 tables and graphs and 21,000 chapters and articles.

The OECD iLibrary supersedes SourceOECD as the main OECD publishing platform. OECD has been communicating with all its customers over the past couple of months to encourage their use of the new platform as part of the transition. All existing subscribers are now being migrated.

For end-users, the migration process is transparent. Their usernames and passwords, as well as IP address details, have been transferred. SourceOECD's EasyLinks will be automatically re-directed to the appropriate page in OECD iLibrary. Parallel access to SourceOECD will continue to be available to subscribers until the migration is complete.

New and existing subscribers will need to register an OECD iLibrary administrator username and password to be able to use the back-office functions. These currently include the management of administration contact details, authentication details - IP address(es) and/or end-user usernames and passwords, subscriptions and institutional branding.

The OECD iLibrary is still being enhanced and some administrative features such as MARC records and COUNTER usage statistics are currently being finalised prior to deployment shortly. The site will continue to evolve as new technology and innovations become available. OECD welcomes ongoing feedback from librarians and end users to continue to improve the site.

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Project MUSE, a provider of humanities and social science periodical content for libraries, has announced a new initiative to incorporate scholarly book content into its research platform and product offerings. Beginning in 2011, e-book collections will be available for purchase alongside MUSE journal collections, with an integrated discovery environment that allows for browsing and searching journal and book content side-by-side.

MUSE, a collaborative project which currently publishes online over 450 journals from more than 100 not-for-profit scholarly presses, will partner with many of the same publishers to offer high quality, peer-reviewed academic books electronically. Project MUSE is managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, which also operates Hopkins Fulfillment Services (HFS) as a distribution arm for many distinguished university presses. HFS client presses are also among the first group of publishers committed to participating in the new book initiative.

The e-books programme, called Project MUSE Editions, has to date signed contracts with several publishers to include in the new offering books from their upcoming scholarly monograph frontlists. These include Baylor University Press, Brookings Institution Press, ELT Press, Indiana University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Kent State University Press, Penn State University Press, Purdue University Press, and University of Illinois Press. Talks are ongoing with several other MUSE and HFS client publishers, with more participants expected to be announced before the end of this year.

Publishers participating in the programme will select and set prices for the frontlist books they offer through MUSE e-book collections. The initiative is focused on scholarly monographs, and is not expected to include textbooks, reference books, trade titles or other books outside the project scope. Project MUSE will reserve the right to reject books that do not fit within its collection parameters.

Book content on MUSE will be offered via a purchase model, on a twice-yearly seasonal (Spring/Fall) basis. Libraries will 'pre-purchase' access to a collection of the frontlist monograph titles included in the upcoming season's publishing schedule from the participating publishers.

MUSE expects to offer its first e-book collection for the Fall 2011 season, with between 250-500 frontlist monograph titles anticipated for inclusion in the collection. Pricing for book collections on MUSE will be based upon the sum of the list prices of the included titles, as set by the books' publishers, with tiered discounting of the collection price modeled upon MUSE's Carnegie Classification-based tiered pricing for its journal collections. Consortium purchase programmes will also be available.

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Publishing Technology plc, a UK-based provider of software and services to the publishing industry, has announced that its flagship collection of e-publications, ingentaconnect, now has a distinct and vibrantly re-energised look and feel. The new design is the second phase of the platform's regeneration, with further releases to follow. Additional improvements and upgrades will include a new Publisher Statistics package, integration with an award winning search engine, enhanced ahead of print functionality, and additional content, amounting to 3600 new titles.

Phase one of the enhancements included a release in March this year which featured early compliance with Shibboleth 2, as well as RightsConnect integration and improved Open Access support, amongst many other improvements to enhance its user experience.

Containing 13,500 scholarly and professional publications from 255 leading international publishers and with 2.5 million unique users per month, ingentaconnect maintains its status as a trusted and established research resource. It continues to be committed to ensuring visibility of publisher's content via library technology. Partnerships with Summon, Primo Central and EBSCO Discovery Service guarantee publisher's content is discoverable via the latest range of library products.

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Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that its flagship subscription e-book database, Academic Complete, now exceeds 50,000 titles from leading publishers. Academic Complete continues to be the largest multidisciplinary e-book database licensed to libraries throughout the world, under a simultaneous, multi-user access model with continual growth.

Furthermore, ebrary's Academic Complete, Government Complete, Public Library Complete, and College Complete are the only e-book products that enable libraries to upload and integrate their own digital materials such as theses and dissertations, yearbooks, and newspapers with DASH! (Data Sharing, Fast).

Academic Complete includes e-books, reports, maps, and other authoritative titles from publishers including The McGraw-Hill Companies, John Wiley & Sons, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and many others. The selection may be previewed at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/academiccompletetitles.

Academic Complete is an interactive eBook database that covers all academic subject areas. The collection currently includes more than 30,000 titles from more than 220 of the world's leading academic, STM, and professional publishers. The database is available 24/7 through any web-enabled device including the iPad.

Additional key features and benefits of Academic Complete include text-to-speech and other accessibility features; continued collection growth at no extra cost throughout the subscription term; free MARC records; COUNTER-compliant usage statistics; and multiple options for searching, navigating, and browsing.

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Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, has announced the launch of a refreshed website for US-based non-profit publisher Annual Reviews.

The new website, www.AnnualReviews.org, is powered by Literatum, a platform used by professional and scholarly publishers to manage, deliver and monetise their digital content. It includes innovative features that make it easier for researchers to find principal contributions in their field and stay up to date with new developments. These include the ability to quickly preview an article's figures from tables of contents, search results, and most popular content pages; tag-along navigation that keeps an article's figures, references, and related content visible while moving through the article; and snippets from cited Annual Reviews articles that accompany the references, giving insight into the context of the citations.

Annual Reviews provides the worldwide scientific community with a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. Its publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature as indexed by the Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

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BioOne, US, a web-based aggregator of research in biological, ecological and environmental sciences, has announced six new titles and their respective not-for-profit publishers to the 2011 BioOne Collections. These new titles are seen to further enhance the company's resource offerings.

Four titles from the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France, will join the BioOne.2 collection. These include Adansonia, Anthropozoologica, Geodiversitas, and Zoosystema. The American Bryological and Lichenological Society, publisher of The Bryologist, will add their second publication, Evansia, to BioOne.1. The flagship journal of the Netherlands Ornithologists' Union, Ardea, will also join the BioOne.1 collection.

With the January 2011 addition of these new titles, BioOne will be home to 166 total publications, 114 of which are ISI-ranked. Furthermore, 65 of BioOne's titles have their current content available online exclusively through the BioOne platform, and 31 titles are based outside of the US. In addition to its two subscribed collections, BioOne continues to be home to twelve open access publications, freely available to all users and fully integrated with the subscribed titles.

2011 rates for both the BioOne.1 and BioOne.2 collections reflect a price increase of 4 percent over 2010. Institutions subscribing to both collections will receive a 5 percent discount on their BioOne.1 subscription.

Additionally, effective January 2011, Journal of Great Lakes Research, published by the International Association for Great Lakes Research (to Elsevier), will no longer add new content to BioOne. In accordance with both BioOne standard policy and Project Transfer guidelines, all issues previously hosted on BioOne from departing titles will remain accessible to subscribers in perpetuity.

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Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, has announced that medical and scientific publisher Informa Healthcare is now publishing books on the redesigned informahealthcare.com platform, powered by Atypon's Literatum software.

Literatum is a platform used by professional and scholarly publishers to manage, deliver and monetise their digital content. Publishing organisations such as JSTOR, the American Chemical Society, de Gruyter, and Annual Reviews are using Literatum to provide controlled access to journals, books, reference works, and other types of publications.

Informa Healthcare, a division of Informa plc, publishes authoritative research and analysis as well as up-to-date news for all sectors of the healthcare and life sciences community. The company partnered with Atypon to deliver a single publishing platform for both books and journals. It has now decided to add more than 600 book titles to the 170 journals on informahealthcare.com to allow users to search across content type to easily obtain critical research.

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Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that it has enhanced its Public Library Complete Pilot Program with more than 800 e-books from AMACOM, Ballantine Books, Bantam Books, Chelsea House, Global Media, and other leading publishers. Public Library Complete now includes a growing selection of over 21,700 multi-user access e-books as well as free access for public high schools, do-it-yourself e-publishing tools, and complimentary marketing services and training.

Additionally, to ensure that ebrary develops the best possible products and technologies for public libraries, and to better understand their needs, the company is creating a new advisory board of public and state librarians. Anyone interested in participating or receiving additional information may email tish.wagner@ebrary.com.

ebrary's Public Library Complete Pilot Program includes a growing collection of over 21,700 full-text e-books from leading publishers such as Random House, Penguin, The McGraw-Hill Companies, and Taylor & Francis in multiple subject areas for schools & studying, career development, fiction, practical life skills, arts & leisure, and more. The programme also provides affordable, subscription-based pricing with simultaneous, multi-user access; free access for local public high schools in the public library's service district; DASH! (Data, Sharing Fast) for uploading, integrating, and sharing searchable databases of government forms, community college programmes, ephemera, special collections, and more; and complimentary marketing services and 24/7 web-based training with a real person.

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Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, has announced that Canadian Science Publishing, doing business as NRC Research Press, will launch a new publishing platform using the company's Literatum software.

NRC Research Press is a Canada-based scientific publisher, publishing 15 journals in all scientific disciplines. The Press recently became an independent not-for-profit corporation, having previously operated as a division of the National Research Council of Canada, a government entity.

Literatum is a leading platform used by professional and scholarly publishers to manage, deliver and monetise their digital content. Publishing organisations such as JSTOR, the American Chemical Society, de Gruyter, and Annual Reviews are using Literatum to provide controlled access to journals, books, reference works, and other types of publications.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its online scientific research platform, ScienceDirect. The tenth anniversary also marks the addition of the ten millionth article to the database, which contains full-text articles and book chapters. The ten millionth full-text article added to the database was: Use of Herbal Products and Potential Interactions in Patients With Cardiovascular Diseases, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, authored by A. Tachjian, V. Maria, A. Jahangir from the Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Mayo Clinic, Rochester and the Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, USA.

ScienceDirect became fully operational in 2000 when it surpassed one million articles and launched its backfiles initiative, adding literature published prior to 1994. According to Elsevier, it has since then become the largest and most extensive resource of its kind. The platform was created to help scientists quickly find the most relevant content for their specific research objectives by offering search, reference and discovery tools. Institutions worldwide currently offer ScienceDirect to their faculty and students, with up to twenty articles downloaded per second from the platform. ScienceDirect has more than 100 million outbound links to cited or related articles, as well as links to other scientific databases.

Continuously seeking ways to accelerate research, ScienceDirect underwent a full platform redesign in 2006 focused on navigational improvements. As a result, researchers were able to cut the number of clicks required for some of the most common search activities by 40 – 50 percent, thereby speeding up the knowledge discovery process.

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Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that all libraries within the City University of New York (CUNY) have subscribed to Academic Complete.

CUNY is a leading urban public university serving more than 480,000 students in New York City. Twenty-three institutions including Baruch College, Hunter College, and City College of New York can now offer students and faculty simultaneous, multi-user access to a growing e-book database with more than 48,400 titles, research tools, and their own digital archives created with DASH! (Data Sharing, Fast), a complimentary, do-it-yourself e-publishing feature of Academic Complete.

Academic Complete is an interactive eBook database that covers all academic subject areas. The collection currently includes more than 30,000 titles from more than 220 of the world's leading academic, STM, and professional publishers. It continues to grow at no additional cost to customers throughout the subscription term. The database is available 24/7 through any web-enabled device including the iPad. Additional key features and benefits of Academic Complete include text-to-speech and other accessibility features; continued collection growth at no extra cost throughout the subscription term; free MARC records; COUNTER-compliant usage statistics; and multiple options for searching, navigating, and browsing.

ebrary will be demonstrating Academic Complete as well as other products and services at the ALA conference, scheduled for June 26-28, 2010, in Washington DC.

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The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has announced a new benefit programme in partnership with NetGalley, a web-based service that provides tools for publishers to share digital galleys and press kits. In addition to reaching traditional reviewers and media contacts, university presses can use NetGalley to share digital galleys with the international rights market, librarians, booksellers and retailers, bloggers and professors requesting desk copies.

The cost of NetGalley for an AAUP member publisher will depend on the number of titles hosted on the site each month. Regardless of their level of participation, AAUP members are eligible to receive a 10 percent discount off the normal NetGalley monthly subscription rate. Environmental information and solutions provider Island Press is one of the first AAUP members to subscribe.

NetGalley provides the real-time transmission of digital galleys and multimedia press kits. Publishers can also allow readers to request a printed galley. A major benefit of the programme is the opportunity for readers to download secure, searchable, full-colour digital galleys to their desktop or to devices such as the Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, or Kobo eReader. For university presses, NetGalley can aid in their desk/exam copy needs by allowing this process to be done faster, at lower cost and with real-time reporting on who is reading a title.

In addition to inviting existing contacts to view galleys, publishers can also list their titles in NetGalley's catalogue and approve requests from NetGalley members. NetGalley offers a range of marketing programmes to reach qualified readers via email, social networking, online trade advertising and at industry events.

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enTourage Systems, Inc., the US-based developer of a dualbook branded 'enTourage eDGe', has announced a partnership with publisher F.A. Davis to upgrade its e-book store with additional titles. The enTourage eDGe seeks to bridge multiple technologies into one device. With its hinged E-Ink and LCD screens, the device is designed to offer users the functionalities of an e-reader, tablet netbook, notepad and audio/video player and recorder in one unit. It also aims to provide the ability to leverage these tools to further engage and manipulate content.

Partnering with F.A. Davis is expected to allow enTourage Systems to provide students, educators and professionals the content they need with nearly 100 titles in the nursing, medicine and health sciences.

In addition to the content from F.A. Davis, enTourage Systems e-book store includes over 200,000 trade titles, e-textbooks, major magazines, newspapers and periodicals, as well as over one million free public domain books digitised by Google. The e-book store is projected as a key component to the enTourage Systems portfolio, providing a controlled user experience that also includes document back-up and sharing between devices.

The company's eDGe dualbook consists of two screens. A 9.7'' E-Ink screen lets users read e-books apart from taking notes and drawing diagrams. The other half, a Wi-Fi-enabled LCD screen for web browsing, also allows video viewing and Microsoft Office document editing and creating. The product is equipped with microphones, a camera and speakers.

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Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced a new pilot programme called Public Library Complete Pilot Program. The initiative seeks to combine more than 20,000 e-books from various publishers under a simultaneous, multi-user access subscription model; free access for local public high schools; do-it-yourself e-publishing tools; and complimentary marketing services. With this initiative, the company seeks to help public libraries address the growing needs of school students, job seekers and other library patrons.

Public libraries are seen as an important resource for local schools that have been hit hard in terms of materials budgets. They also serve as career counselors, helping unemployed patrons find work and others build their careers. Furthermore, public libraries are often the only place where patrons who do not own computers can gain access to government forms and other critical information. ebrary's Public Library Complete Pilot Program aims to give public libraries a helping hand to address these and other community needs.

Public libraries, systems, and consortia are invited to a breakfast focus group at ALA Annual, where ebrary will discuss the pilot programme in greater detail. It will also solicit input on trends, future business models for electronic content, challenges and other matters pertaining to the public library community. The session will be held on June 27 at the Four Points Sheraton in Washington DC.

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Digital media services company LibreDigital Inc, US, has announced that it has closed an $8.1 million Series C funding round led by new investor S3 Ventures with participation from existing investors Adams Capital Management and Triangle Peak Partners. The company's other key investors include HarperCollins Publishers, The New York Times Company and Noro-Moseley Partners.

The new capital infusion will be used by LibreDigital to expand e-book services for publishers looking to capitalise on the unprecedented demand for e-books, which is being driven by the release of new devices like the Apple iPad. In addition to being a top Apple e-book aggregator, LibreDigital also powers the delivery of content to other digital devices and marketplaces, including Barnes & Noble NOOK, Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Google Editions and many more.

LibreDigital enables publishers, distributors and device manufacturers to securely market and deliver content across an expanding number of digital channels, including e-readers, tablets, smart phones, social networks and online stores. The company offers solutions designed to deliver digital books, newspapers and magazines in the highest quality format possible.

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OverDrive, a US-based distributor of e-books, audiobooks and digital content, has announced that it will release a series of applications that will combine e-books, audiobooks and interactive and multimedia content into one user-friendly application. The apps will be available for both mobile and desktop operating systems, including Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry. End users are expected to benefit from a single software solution for all OverDrive-supplied content, as well as on-the-go access to e-books from OverDrive-powered library and retail catalogues.

Android devices will be the first to experience OverDrive's app with integrated e-book reading features. The app will enable wireless downloads of premium, copy-protected e-books, as well as enhanced accessibility and usability features such as text-to-speech. This and other mobile apps are being developed under a licence agreement with Adobe and using the Adobe Reader Mobile 9 SDK. All OverDrive apps will support EPUB, PDF and e-book content protection functionality, including library lending and expiration.

For a preview of the OverDrive e-book apps, as well as other service enhancements, interested parties can visit booth 3258 at BookExpo America, May 26-27, in New York City. The company will also exhibit in the IDPF Digital Book Zone, booth 2323, at BEA.

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Spanish publishers Planeta, Random House Mondadori and Santillana, together with Roca Editorial, Wolters Kluwer, and Edicions 62, have reportedly launched a new e-book platform, Libranda. Libranda will offer one of the biggest selections of e-books in Spanish and Catalán. It will act as a digital distributor with no direct-to-consumer sales.

Libranda will offer its e-books in ePub format, limited by user and territory with Adobe DRM. Default settings will allow readers who buy e-books to download each title on up to 6 PCs and 6 mobile devices, though individual publishers will be able to set stricter limits if they wish. The platform will distribute books from prestigious independents Anagrama, Salamandra and Maeva. Libranda has also deals in place to roll out in June with major chain retailers. Participating publishers have the option of negotiating their own retailer discounts individually. As of now, there are no plans to provide e-books to libraries.

The launch of Libranda comes two weeks before Book Expo America in New York. In one of the first events of the Global Market Forum on May 25, 2010, Planeta CEO Jesus Badenes will join Larry Bennett from Baker & Taylor and Patricia Arancibia from BN.com to talk about the e-book markets in Spain and the US.

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Digital media content provider MediaNet, US, has announced the launch of a comprehensive eBook catalogue and product offering. The advanced MN Open platform will now support the integration of eBooks using an intuitive API that has been widely adopted by over 100 application developers, web publishers and online retailers for music offerings.

MediaNet will make available a broad catalogue of eBooks including the most popular titles that are available through major physical and online book sellers. These eBooks will initially be offered in the Adobe ePub and PDF formats which are compatible with a wide variety of devices including PC, Mac, Sony Reader, Nook and new entrants such as the Plastic Logic Que. Additional formats will be introduced as needed.

Currently there are applications available in the marketplace that will allow for compatibility with the ‘iDevices’ including the iPhone and iPad. Web publishers and application developers can access MediaNet’s eBook service through an API built on top of MediaNet’s enterprise class content delivery platform. MediaNet’s API provides complete control over the user experience, functionality, e-commerce and content catalogue. Online retailers can rapidly implement more advanced browsing, discovery, and purchase options under their own brand.

In May 2010, MediaNet will make available its popular suite of Web Components for the eBooks offering. With no coding required and a quick time to market, Web Components allow anyone to place dynamically displayed eBook content anywhere on the Web. This offers a contextually rich experience with eBooks content presented to end users in a relevant manner when they are most interested in an author or subject and likely to transact.

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Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that it has added significant capabilities to QuickView. QuickView enables end-users to instantly view documents in many of the leading web browsers and even works on the iPhone.

ebrary customers worldwide can now discover information within e-books and other authoritative documents without having to download or install software. Enhancements to QuickView include ability to customise InfoTools, which turns every word into a portal to additional information, with online resources of the customer’s choice; print an entire chapter at a time (up to session limits); choice of four citation preferences; navigate to the previous or next page by double-clicking on the document; ability to select text and navigate throughout documents by finger swiping on the iPad and iPhone; and enable RefWorks, EndNote or both at the institution level.

Additionally, end-users can easily share ebrary citations with peers at other institutions. Anyone who clicks on the URL to an ebrary title will be automatically directed to the same document in their library’s ebrary collection (if available).

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Journal subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that its eBook procurement portal has been fully integrated into SwetsWise and is now available to all customers. The eBooks procurement portal allows users to purchase both individual titles and eBook collections.

SwetsWise now provides the capability to browse, acquire and manage all eBook purchases through the same interface in which they manage their print and electronic journal subscriptions. Users can compare and contrast the different pricing and purchase models available from different providers. The procurement features included seek to provide customers with a single source for purchasing eBooks and a means to select the desired access route to their acquired content, be it by publishers directly or through an aggregator.

SwetsWise facilitates the essential interaction with publishers needed to ensure the timely delivery of subscriptions in the format information users and knowledge workers require. Its comprehensive eBook catalogue already contains about 300,000 titles, from more than 1000 publishers, with the number rapidly increasing daily. Titles and packages from some of the world’s leading aggregators are available to order.

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The University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office recently added 576 new backlist titles to the ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) online collection. This brings the total number of available titles in HEB to 2,790. The works represent more than two dozen disciplines and subject areas, including performance studies, sociology, literary criticism, and the history of the book.

ACLS Humanities E-Book database is a subscription-based, full-text collection of important scholarly works in all areas of the humanities, peer-reviewed and selected for inclusion by twenty different learned societies. The backlist titles are produced from printed books, and can be viewed as page images, OCR'd text, or PDFs. Frontlist titles are born-digital, fully-encoded texts that may include multi-media functionality such as images, audio, or video.

The Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan Library has been working with scholars to improve publishing since 2001. SPO publishes a broad range of material of interest to scholars in many fields. It works with scholars to design affordable and sustainable publishing solutions.

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Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, and electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, have signed an agreement. Under the deal, EBSCO will purchase the assets of the OCLC NetLibrary Division and the rights to license a select number of vendor-owned databases currently available through the OCLC FirstSearch service. The purchase includes the NetLibrary eBook and eAudiobook platform as well as operations and infrastructure in Boulder, Colorado.

NetLibrary eBook content and eAudiobook subscriptions will continue to be available on the NetLibrary platform. EBSCO plans to provide access to the NetLibrary e-books content on EBSCOhost, an e-content platform, in a bid to create a comprehensive integrated e-books and database service. NetLibrary e-books will also continue to be accessible through WorldCat.org.

OCLC purchased the assets of NetLibrary in 2002 from bankruptcy in a bid to protect libraries’ investments in e-book content purchases, and to explore the potential of e-books for libraries during the early days of the web. OCLC members and publisher partners pioneered new e-book platforms, new purchase and licensing models and built a global shared e-book service for tens of thousands of libraries worldwide. OCLC has partnered with EBSCO to ensure wider access to the e-book resources of libraries.

All NetLibrary e-books purchased by libraries will be placed in a dark archive—the OCLC eBook Archive—at least through March 2013. The latest agreement with EBSCO is projected to ensure that all NetLibrary e-books purchased by libraries continue to be secure.

EBSCO will provide OCLC MARC records for applicable e-books to libraries free of charge and will ensure continued visibility of these collections in WorldCat.org. EBSCO also plans to maintain the e-books content purchase model and additionally explore e-books subscription options. Thousands of libraries also subscribe to Recorded Books eAudiobooks on the NetLibrary platform. This service will continue as EBSCO and Recorded Books will partner to provide access and new eAudiobook content on the NetLibrary platform.

EBSCO has also purchased the rights to license certain vendor-owned databases that are currently available via FirstSearch. Existing FirstSearch subscribers will continue to receive access to these databases on the FirstSearch service through the end of their current subscriptions. EBSCOhost access to these databases will be activated to run in parallel with FirstSearch access for the remainder of the current subscription.

OCLC will continue to deliver library content via the FirstSearch platform. The WorldCat database, the WorldCat base package of databases and databases of primarily library owned content will continue to be offered through both FirstSearch and WorldCat.org.

Moving forward, OCLC plans to concentrate new development resources on enhancing and expanding WorldCat services and developing new services to streamline and lower costs of library management workflows.

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Publishing-specific software solutions provider Publishing Technology plc, UK, has announced the latest release of IngentaConnect, its flagship collection of e-publications. Ingentaconnect now includes Shibboleth 2 integration in anticipation of the forthcoming industry-compliant deadline of June 30th. Compliance with Shibboleth 2, a standards based, open source software package for user authentication, is the latest in several advances made to ensure the platform remains future-proof for its publishers and its users.

IngentaConnect's compliance with the latest Shibboleth standard is enabled via OpenAthens SP, which also supports authentication for prior versions of Shibboleth to ensure continued access for those who have not yet applied for the newest standard and also other new technologies as the develop.

In addition to Shibboleth 2, other enhancements include Open Access support to more clearly identify free and Open Access content to users, improved visibility of purchase and download options. The release also includes integration with RightsConnect from the Copyright Clearance Center. A 'More about this publication? / More like this' feature shares additional information with readers, such as editorial board details and highlights related articles as recommendations, potentially driving more usage and revenue opportunities for hosted publishers.

In a related announcement, IngentaConnect has announced that three new clients have selected its online publishing package. Content from St Antony's International Review (STAIR), Northwestern University Press and Sense Publishers will all soon feature on IngentaConnect. Also, Content from City University of New York and Firenze University Press is now available.

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Scientific publisher CRC Press, US, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, has announced a partnership with publishing software provider Atypon to launch CRCnetBASE 2.0. The new web platform utilises Atypon’s software to combine all CRCnetBASE e-book content onto one website.

New features include individual book and chapter purchases, the ability to search across all disciplines, and built-in institutional account management. Users will now be able to access the entire CRCnetBASE catalogue of online content from one website, allowing them to conduct searches across multiple disciplines. Institutional account management tools have also been integrated within the new platform. Registered library administrators can view their IP ranges, add additional administrators, download COUNTER usage reports, and personalise their institutions site directly from their user account. Academic and corporate subscribers will continue to receive IP recognition access to CRCnetBASE.com with additional options for Athens and Shibboleth logins.

CRCnetBASE offers subscription and purchase access to over 6,000 scientific and technical e-books spanning 40 disciplines. Annual subscriptions and perpetual subscriptions are available for institutional, corporate, and academic customers.

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Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, and digital content services provider Ingram Digital, US, have announced an agreement to make e-book content available through Ingram’s e-content aggregation platform, MyiLibrary. MyiLibrary e-book content will now be available to library users through the full suite of Ex Libris discovery products - Primo Central mega-aggregate of scholarly e-content, the SFX OpenURL link resolver and the MetaLib gateway and metasearch solution.

Libraries will benefit from the collaboration between Ingram and Ex Libris by having one search and discovery tool that can access the vast and comprehensive e-content catalogue of MyiLibrary, and by significantly increasing the breadth and depth of publisher content that libraries can make available to their patrons.

MyiLibrary is a fast-growing online e-content solution that currently includes hundreds of thousands of titles covering all major disciplines. Ingram Digital is the latest of the rapidly expanding group of aggregators who have chosen to make their content accessible to library users via Primo Central - a centralised index comprising data harvested from primary and secondary publishers and aggregators.

Ingram will provide metadata for all its MyiLibrary e-book titles for indexing in Primo Central. With Primo Central, users simultaneously search locally managed collections and global e-content and receive search results that are blended into a single relevance-ranked list. Primo Central is now undergoing beta testing by 14 Primo Central partner libraries around the world, and will be available to the more than 250 Primo customers and 1500 MetaLib customers in mid-2010.

Ex Libris will also use the MyiLibrary metadata to enhance the SFX OpenURL link resolver KnowledgeBase. SFX is used by over 1800 institutions in more than 50 countries. Released in 2001 as the first software of its kind, SFX offers a wealth of features that go far beyond basic link resolver functionality, including a comprehensive KnowledgeBase; an A-Z list; and CitationLinker, Collection Analysis, and Statistics modules.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) has agreed to acquire the complete ScienceDirect eBooks collections for 2008, 2009 and 2010. Libraries and patrons in CIC member institutions will now be able to access over 1,300 titles across 18 science, technical and medical subject areas.

CIC member institutions include Indiana University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. By providing access to the ScienceDirect eBooks collection, member patrons will gain access to the library as well as a powerful search and browse capability. Users will also be able to access instant links to relevant journal articles and innovative knowledge discovery features such as the NextBio Ontology-based semantic search tool.

CIC chose to acquire the eBooks collections based on evidence gathered from increasing patron adoption of retrospective content from the HathiTrust Digital Archive as well as robust uptake of current publisher content from a variety of sources. A careful analysis of current ebook usage among consortium member institutions was conducted last year, and participating schools found that when they worked together to make a critical mass of content accessible, it was immediately noticed and used by faculty and students.

Later this year, ScienceDirect will partner with selected libraries from CIC to conduct joint usage studies to better understand the value of these ebooks in driving world-class research, teaching and learning. Findings from this study will be shared with the global library and research community.

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Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced the availability of a new Software as a Service (SaaS) feature - Title Preview. The feature is projected to enable publishers, aggregators, corporations and other users to effectively market their digital content and increase leads.

Title Preview seeks to help organisations quickly and cost effectively create digital content products and distribute them directly to the markets of their choice. It offers features and benefits such as ebrary marketing services to assist with generating and tracking leads; customised landing page created by ebrary’s designer; ability to specify number of viewable pages; multiple searching options – simple and advanced; browse by topic; personal bookshelves to store titles of interest and email selections to peers; usage reports and statistics; and other ebrary interface features including InfoTools.

ebrary will be showcasing Title Preview and its other products and services at a number of upcoming events, including Online Information, December 1-3, 2009, in London (stand #600), and ALA Midwinter, January 15-18, 2010, in Boston (booth #1800).

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Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that it has expanded its Library Center to include complimentary e-books for knowledge managers. The new Library & KM Center now features a growing selection of more than 140 titles from leading publishers along with tools that make it easy to find, use, and manage information online. Interested parties can register online at http:// tinyurl.com/librarykmcenterpr to gain access to the new Library Center.

ebrary offers corporations and government organisations a number of integrated products and services including full-text e-book, handbooks, manuals and other trusted content in key business and engineering subject areas. The company also offers content hosting services, which turn corporate PDF documents of any type into searchable and highly interactive databases. All ebrary products and services feature powerful research capabilities including InfoTools, which turns every word into a portal to additional knowledge within the organisation and on the web.

Additionally, ebrary’s products and services can easily be integrated within corporate intranets. The company will be demonstrating its full suite of content products and technologies at KM World, November 17-19, in San Jose California (Booth #121).

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Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced a new licensing agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry, a UK-based professional association and publisher of books, journals, and databases in the chemical sciences. Under the deal, Ovid will provide seamless online access to 46 of its ebooks on the OvidSP platform. As a leading aggregator of online scientific information, Ovid works with more than 150 international and society publishers.

All 46 books are the latest editions and have been published between 2006 and 2008. They will be available as annual subscriptions or as one-time purchases for perpetual access on Books@Ovid, OvidSP’s leading ebooks platform. All books are scheduled to be available on OvidSP by the end of October. The inclusion of these titles further strengthens Ovid’s offerings in biological chemistry, drug discovery, toxicology, food science, and energy and environmental science.

Books@Ovid offers a streamlined, efficient ebook search experience for novice and experienced online scholarly searchers. Users can search books simultaneously with their other online resources, and flexible search, results management, and workflow tools make online research fast and easy. With the addition of books from the Royal Society of Chemistry, Books@Ovid now offers access to over 2,500 books from the world’s premium publishers. In addition to the Royal Society of Chemistry, Ovid’s portfolio of ebooks publishing partners now totals ten. Additional partners include Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Ovid’s sister company within Wolters Kluwer Health), Oxford University Press, Springer Science + Business Media, McGraw-Hill, and Jones & Bartlett.

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Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, US, has announced that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has solidified its e-book strategy with iPublishCentral, an electronic content delivery solution used by over 350 publishers worldwide. AAP is a leading society publisher and professional organisation to 600, 000 pediatricians.

Scheduled for launch in early 2010, AAP will initially offer 35 books from its adolescent health, neonatal, infectious disease and primary care collections online for purchase in digital format with a multi-level offering to both individuals and institutions such as libraries, hospitals and medical schools. iPublishCentral is an easy-to-implement, cost-effective, self-service solution that allows publishers to market, distribute and monetise traditional print content through electronic channels.

AAP collections and individual titles will be available by subscription or by per-book purchase, accessible with a single login. Along with member pediatricians, hospitals, libraries, medical schools and health organisations will also have access to AAP’s digital library. While retaining the look and feel of a print book, these e-Books will have enhanced electronic features including search, bookmarking and user personalisation.

AAP and its member authors will also be able to promote their titles using iPublishWidget, a viral marketing tool that enables both publishers and authors to promote and market books on the Internet and social Web sites such as Facebook. iPublishWidget enhances visibility, sustains interest and enables sales conversions for any title. Leading titles such as The Red Book Atlas, a reference for infectious diseases; Berkowitz Pediatrics, a textbook for primary care; and The Pediatric Nutrition Handbook, a guide for the latest evidence-based guidelines on feeding healthy infants and children, will be available for digital download.

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Global library cooperative OCLC has announced that its e-book and e-audiobook service, NetLibrary, now offers more than 200,000 eBooks and over 13,000 eAudiobooks from over 550 publishers in a variety of subject areas and disciplines. NetLibrary claims to be the first eContent provider to offer academic, public, special and school library users access to more than 200,000 eBook titles. Its multilingual eBooks include reference, business, computer science and information technology titles and more from the world's leading publishers of scholarly, trade, STM and reference eContent.

NetLibrary offers comprehensive collections in all core subject areas including humanities, physical sciences, technology, medicine and literature. Libraries can choose from tens of thousands of front-list and best-selling trade titles; ready reference materials including encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories and handbooks; and resources for students, teachers and faculty. NetLibrary also offers services and tools to help libraries streamline acquisitions, integrate eBooks into an integrated library system, and facilitate discovery of collections.

NetLibrary eAudiobooks integrate seamlessly with a library's existing NetLibrary eBook collections, providing library users with a single point of access. With increasing worldwide demand for electronic content, NetLibrary continues to enhance and expand its catalogue by partnering with pre-eminent publishers. In recent months, NetLibrary has added content from publishers such as American Psychiatric Publishing, Harvard University Press, McGraw-Hill Education Europe, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, and more.

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Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced a new service called On-Demand Libraries, targeted at CRM (customer relationship management) and other Software as a Service (SaaS) providers. The service is projected to help SaaS providers show greater value to their customers, while offering end-users trusted information and tools they need to do their jobs more efficiently.

With On-Demand Libraries, SaaS providers can package their services with custom and branded collections of relevant e-books and other materials from publishers valued at tens of thousands of dollars. ebrary offers CRM software providers a selection of digital content in subjects ranging from sales & marketing to finance, human resources, business and leadership. The company also offers content complementary to many SaaS providers to vertical markets such as medical, legal and government. ebrary’s selection may be previewed at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/corptitles/home.action.

Additionally, SaaS providers may seamlessly integrate their own manuals, whitepapers, reports, or any document in PDF with their On-Demand Library, which features tools for efficiently finding, using and managing information online.

ebrary offers a selection of more than 170,000 digital books, handbooks, reports, maps, journals and other content from over 350 publishers across the world under flexible subscription, purchase and usage-based models. Additionally, the company offers e-publishing services for customers to cost-effectively distribute their own PDF content online on ebrary’s servers or their own.

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Sony has signed agreements with publishing houses Smashwords and Authors Solutions that will permit e-books published or distributed by the two companies to be sold through the Sony eBook Store. Together with Sony, these companies will give independent authors and small publishers the opportunity to offer content through the eBook Store.

Established publishers as well as independent authors and smaller publishers can now access Sony’s newly re-launched Publisher Portal. This portal serves as an easy way for larger publishers who may not already have a relationship with Sony to get in touch. Also, it provides a way for individual authors or publishers with just a handful of titles to work with market-proven solution providers to publish books and make them available on Sony’s eBook store.

As Sony completes the conversion of its eBook store to the industry-standard EPUB format, Smashwords and Authors Solution will expand the offer to all existing Author Solutions and Smashwords authors to get their titles up on the Sony site. Author Solutions and Smashwords will offer authors the option to publish content in the EPUB format, the International Digital Publishing Forum’s (IDPF) XML-based standard format for reflowable digital books and publications. EPUB has gained acceptance among major trade book publishers with dozens of publishers already producing the majority of their eBooks using the standard. Sony recently announced that the company is transitioning its content library to the EPUB format.

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Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, US, has announced a strategic partnership with Audiomedia Production (AP), an audio production vendor to leading educational and trade publishers. The deal is to offer audio content for Impelsys’ VirtualPages. VirtualPages is a reader that quickly and cost-effectively converts print into electronic editions. Publishers can now have a single-vendor solution for all eBook production needs.

Together, Impelsys and AP enable the VirtualPages Talking eBook. Impelsys’ VirtualPages technology plus AP’s audio content transforms standard printed books into virtual electronic books that offer a variety of illustrative and audio features such as narration, individually clickable words and read-along colour-coding of words. Some other features include user customisation features to turn on/off the text highlights and/or audio Page flip feature; zoom in and zoom out; thumbnail view; jump to page; and links to Word Glossary 'Email to friend' option.

Impelsys and AP plan to continue to enhance the eBook experience, push technological limits and lead the direction in which the electronic publishing industry is headed. With a partnership like this in place, publishers and other industry affiliates will be able to take advantage of production and management cost savings by working with one vendor to implement a complete online strategy and offer a more attractive eBook production solution to clients.

Impelsys also offers a self-service electronic content delivery platform called iPublishCentral. iPublishCentral allows publishers of any size to make content available for sale online and promote their brands and titles across the Web through viral marketing. With minimal to no cost, publishers can transition content online and can offer readers a high-resolution digital reading experience with viewing/previewing, buying, renting and promotional capabilities through iPublishCentral, iPublishWidget and ViewInside.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that nearly 250 health sciences titles published and/or publishing in 2009 and 2010 will be launched in October. These new eBook collections cover clinical content in clinical medicine, veterinary medicine, and health professions. Elsevier will make these titles available electronically through ScienceDirect, its online scientific research platform. These new eBook collections follow the May release of titles published from 2000 to 2008, bringing the total Health Sciences eBooks on ScienceDirect to more than 870 titles.

Elsevier’s Health Sciences books are published under the imprints W.B. Saunders, Mosby, Churchill Livingstone, and Hanley & Belfus, publishers with a rich medical and health science publishing heritage dating back to 1688. The inclusion of these books on ScienceDirect will allow even more researchers across the world to access these valuable content resources.

Until May of this year, Elsevier’s medical and health sciences book titles had only been available through MD Consult for clinical practitioners and medical education; Evolve eBooks for health professions education; and Veterinary Consult for veterinary medicine education. The thousands of authors represented in the Elsevier medical and health sciences collections on ScienceDirect can now enjoy greater market visibility, increasing the potential for research collaboration and recognition.

The addition of the Elsevier Health Sciences 2009 and 2010 eBook Collections follows the successful launch of over 600 Health Sciences titles published from 2000 to 2008. These titles further contribute to the evolution of the ScienceDirect platform into a comprehensive and complete source of global scientific knowledge.

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British Library, the national library of the UK, has announced plans to extend its ‘New Ways of Reading’ display to encourage users to investigate new reading technology from the moment it is released. Under the initiative, the library is showcasing the Bloomsbury Library Online, a new service which allows readers to borrow e-books from their public libraries. Also, three new e-reader devices are on display. These include the COOL-ER reader and Sony’s ‘Pocket’ and ‘Touch’ Reader devices - not available in shops until September 10.

With the arrival of services such as the Bloomsbury Library Online - being showcased on the upper ground floor of the British Library from September 3 – readers will soon be able to view electronic content at their local library and remotely via Internet enabled devices. Run by Bloomsbury Publishing, this online service provides access to shelves of popular material by theme.

As well as demonstrating how content is being made available, the Library has added new hardware to its e-reader display. On August 26, Sony launched its two latest editions to the Sony Reader family at the Library. These allow users exclusive access to these two new models, now part of the display, before they are released in the shops on September 10. Easy to navigate with a single hand and small enough to fit in a jacket pocket, the Reader Pocket Edition is claimed to be ideal for commuters. The new models from Sony are joined by the ultra-light, user friendly COOL-ER Reader, designed by small British firm Interead. Offered in a range of colours, Interead has created a dedicated e-bookshop for the devices to make the upload process as simple as possible and bring e-readers to the non-technologically inclined masses.

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Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, US, has announced that the American Medical Association (AMA) has launched an e-book portal using iPublishCentral, its self-service e-publishing platform. iPublishCentral enables publishers to market, distribute and monetise traditional print content through electronic channels.

For instance, the e-book version of Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, sixth edition, contains clarifications and corrections that were not defined until after the book published. The AMA has recently reprinted the book and is using this opportunity to introduce its existing customer base to the electronic version. Direct purchasers can currently receive a two-year subscription to the downloadable e-book as a replacement offer for the reprinted publication. iPublishCentral allows a migration path to a planned suite of e-products that will be available on Impelsys’ iPlatform in the future.

By going online with iPublishCentral, the AMA seeks to provide its members the flexibility and benefit of accessing AMA-published content from anywhere.

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The American Psychological Association (APA) has announced the release of APA Books E-Collections, a new way for institutions to purchase, own and provide access to APA scholarly and professional book content. APA Books E-Collections also offer the first in-year availability of APA's current copyright year book content in electronic format.

APA Books E-Collections comprise individual annual compilations of APA-published scholarly and professional book content grouped by copyright year, and are available for years 2001 through 2009. Coverage includes all APA scholarly and professional books with the exception of APA Style products, Magination Press children's titles, APA LifeTools trade book titles, encyclopedias, and other reference publications. All APA Books E-Collections provide electronic access to the full-text of each book and are delivered on APA PsycNET, APA's proprietary search platform.

APA now provides a choice of access models for electronic access to APA scholarly and professional books, enabling institutions the flexibility to choose the best model for their specific needs.

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John Smith & Son, an academic and professional bookselling chain in the UK, has released results of a study proving market demand for e-textbooks and confirming their value as a new revenue stream for publishers. The programme is powered by VitalSource, an interactive e-textbook platform offered by Ingram Digital, an Ingram content company focused on solutions for digital content management, distribution and promotion.

E-textbooks were sold using various sales models, with bundled print and e-textbooks proving more successful than e-textbooks sold as a discounted point-of-sale add-on or as a single full-price product. Not only were e-textbook sales strong in the first semester, but these encouraging sales have continued into the second semester, it has been observed.

The study also revealed that titles available digitally realised a decrease in used textbook sales. Used textbook sales force publishers to compete with their own material, leading to more frequent new editions and, subsequent higher costs for printed textbooks. Titles available digitally realised as much as a 68 percent decrease in sales of their used, printed counterparts in a year-to-year comparison.

John Smith's chose VitalSource for its ability to support multiple formats, flexible digital rights management and interactive features such as the ability to search within text, highlight in the book, copy and paste sections as needed and the ability to share notes with classmates and professors. After a successful pilot in 2007, the programme was expanded for the 2008 autumn semester, with almost 100 of John Smith's bestselling textbook titles available in digital and print.

Online publishing solutions provider Semantico Ltd., UK, has announced a redesign of its service offering around the introduction of 'rapid' versions of its online publishing platform, Semantico Information Publishing Platform (SIPP), and its identity and access management system, Semantico Access Management System (SAMS). The new rapid offering is projected to enable dramatically shortened implementation times and lower cost without sacrifice of quality. The move is expected to better meet the needs of publishers struggling to fund the development of their online offerings in the current financial climate. The company is also introducing a number of 'crunch-buster' service additions alongside its core offering.

Semantico, a developer of high-end custom digital publishing solutions, is now additionally offering lower entry points for its richly-featured publishing solutions, and faster time-to-market.

The basis of the rapid offering is a streamlined, 'Pareto principle' implementation which is seen to provide the vast majority of the functionality publishers look for in an online publishing platform and a clear upgrade path. SIPP is now offered in three versions - SIPP Rapid, SIPP Rapid+, SIPP Classic. All three come bundled with the corresponding version of SAMS (SAMS Rapid, SAMS Rapid+ or SAMS Classic), providing a fully integrated access management solution.

Each version offers an upgrade path allowing additional functionality and enhancements to be added at a later date. SAMS is also offered in all three versions as a stand-alone solution, which can be easily integrated with an existing publishing platform using SAMS Gatekeeper.

Digital content services provider Ingram Digital, US, has announced a significant increase in the student and faculty adoption of VitalSource, its interactive e-textbook platform. In January 2009, the platform saw more than a 600 percent rise over the same period in 2008.

VitalSource allows publishers to reach out to emerging digital markets while also protecting their content from illegal use and piracy. The interactive format allows users to search, highlight and annotate their texts. VitalSource-powered e-books can be downloaded to a user's PC or Mac, making them accessible anywhere, anytime - even when the user is no longer connected to the Internet. The VitalSource Bookshelf application stores, indexes and displays the e-books and functions as a virtual meeting place for readers to trade notes, tips and techniques.

Bookshelf, an interactive e-book reader, is claimed to experience continued exponential growth as e-books are increasingly adopted by the higher education community. After adding 100,000 new users over the course of its first 10 years, the number of users has tripled since June, surpassing 300,000 users in January 2009. In January alone, 44,453 users downloaded Bookshelf.

The Bookshelf platform enables social networking in the classroom by allowing students and faculty to share their notes with each other - another feature seen to be contributing to its rapid adoption. In January 2009, over 3 million notes and highlights were shared. Professors are also choosing to share their notes with students.

The latest version of the platform, Bookshelf 5.1, incorporates changes based upon feedback from users. It features faster search capabilities, cited as the most valuable feature by students, as well as improved print functions and enhanced organising and downloading capabilities.