Pearson Education India launches its first online book store - August 16, 2010
Education publisher Pearson Education India has announced the launch of its first 'Online Bookstore' through its online retail partner, VRVBookshop. The online bookstore will include the complete catalogue of all Pearson Education India publications. These include imprints like Prentice Hall, SAMS, Longman, Addison Wesley, QUE, Wharton… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - August 16, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Philip Davis (Ending the Supplemental Data “Arms Race”); Joe Wikert ( Digital Publishing & POD: What's "Good Enough"?); Kent Anderson (It’s Going Too Fast — Can Embargoes Manage the Real-time Web?); and Ronald Firquain (Publishing Formats for Digital Books). Blogspeak… Read More
ARL publishes E-Science and Data Support Services: A Study of ARL Member Institutions - August 13, 2010
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published E-Science and Data Support Services: A Study of ARL Member Institutions, which synthesises data collected in a 2009 survey with subsequent interviews of several responding libraries. Authored by Catherine Soehner, Catherine Steeves, and Jennifer Ward, the study was… Read More
ACS and Council for Chemical Research to host R&D symposium - August 13, 2010
The American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Council for Chemical Research (CCR) will hold a special half-day symposium to address the critical challenge of keeping the US' chemical enterprise competitive, and the central role research and development (R&D) will play in this process. Entitled 'Translational Chemical… Read More
New WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway unveiled for better visibility of digital content - August 13, 2010
Library cooperative OCLC has announced that repository managers from libraries, museums, archives and other cultural heritage and research institutions can now contribute metadata records for digital materials to WorldCat using the enhanced WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway. The tool is projected to increase the visibility and accessibility… Read More
Newsbank partnership takes news content on EDS to over 100 million articles - August 13, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that the amount of news content in its EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) has grown to more than 100 million articles since January 2010 from its partnership with Newsbank alone. Additional news content sources and the addition of… Read More
