Oxford University Press and Portico in deal to preserve e-books - February 24, 2011
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP). Under the deal Portico will preserve the publisher's entire collection of e-books from its Oxford Scholarship Online resource and Handbooks Online resource. Oxford… Read More
Internet Archive and library partners develop joint collection of over 80,000 eBooks - February 24, 2011
A group of libraries led by the Internet Archive recently developed a joint collection of more than 80,000 ebooks for lending on OpenLibrary.org, a site where it's already possible to read over 1 million eBooks without restriction. During a library visit, patrons with an OpenLibrary.org account… Read More
Thomson Reuters and CareEvolution expand partnership to launch Thomson Reuters HIE Advantage - February 24, 2011
Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, and CareEvolution, Inc., a provider of secure health interoperability solutions, have agreed to expand their relationship to deliver a comprehensive suite of Health Information Exchange (HIE) capabilities for the public and private sectors. This expanded relationship builds upon an existing… Read More
Three journals in Springer’s Chinese Library of Science join SpringerOpen - February 23, 2011
STM publisher Springer has announced that selected journals in its Chinese Library of Science (CLoS) will be published as open access journals and added to the SpringerOpen portfolio. Starting in 2011, the journals Chinese Science Bulletin, Science China Life Sciences and Photonic Sensors will be added… Read More
Elsevier and TAIR connect research articles to genetic and molecular biology data - February 23, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) have announced their next step in interconnecting the diverse elements of scientific research. All articles on Elsevier's electronic platform SciVerse ScienceDirect that describe Arabidopsis genes and use AGI codes will now link to the corresponding… Read More
US, European regulators scrutinising Apple’s rules for iPad content sales - February 23, 2011
Several US regulators have begun looking at the terms Apple is imposing on media companies looking to sell content for iPad users, the Wall Street Journal has reported. The EU is also reportedly monitoring the situation. According to the media report,… Read More
