Baker & Taylor and ebrary announce licensing partnership to launch first phase of integrated digital media distribution platform - March 11, 2009
Information services company Baker & Taylor, Inc., US, has launched the first phase of its integrated digital media distribution platform through a strategic worldwide licensing partnership with US-based e-book technology firm ebrary. The partnership enables Baker & Taylor to develop its own… Read More
Nigel Portwood named new Chief Executive of Oxford University Press - March 11, 2009
Academic and reference books publisher Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced the appointment of Nigel Portwood as the new Chief Executive. His role will commence in the summer of 2009 upon the retirement of OUP's current Chief Executive, Dr Henry Reece. The appointment of the… Read More
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Scotland’s shared digital library initiative to widen access for educational institutions - March 10, 2009
Scotland's university researchers are set to benefit from Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL), a shared digital library that will widen access to over 1,500 specialist journals and publications. JISC Collections negotiated this pilot scheme, which will be led by the Scottish Confederation of University and… Read More
Bradford University Repository Project ready for launch - March 10, 2009
The Bradford University Repository Project (BURP) is ready for launch. The Project Team of the 1-year project has announced the forthcoming launch of Bradford Scholars - the University of Bradford online research archive. The archive is already available to users for viewing existing materials and contributing… Read More
Springer India launches Indian edition of Dentistry - March 10, 2009
Springer India Pvt. Ltd., in collaboration with FMC, part of the specialist publishing group Springer Science+Business Media, has announced the inaugural issue of the Indian edition of Dentistry, the UK Business Magazine of the Year 2008. First published in 1995, Dentistry claims to be the UK's… Read More
