Total book sales in the UK amounted to £3.1 billion in 2010, says PA Statistics Yearbook - May 4, 2011
The Publishers Association (PA), UK, has published its annual report of 2010 sales figures across the UK book publishing industry which demonstrates that digital sales are accelerating across all sectors. The PA Statistics Yearbook 2010 shows that total book sales in the UK amounted to… Read More
New OCLC report on how to increase access to special collections - May 4, 2011
Library information provider OCLC Research, US, has released a new report titled 'Rapid Capture: Faster Throughput in Digitization of Special Collections.' This report is the latest in a series of OCLC Research reports about how to increase access to special collections that have resulted from OCLC's… Read More
North Philadelphia Health System selects Thomson Reuters Pharmacy Xpert - May 4, 2011
Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that North Philadelphia Health System has selected Thomson Reuters Pharmacy Xpert to help pharmacists reduce medication costs and improve efficiency and quality of care. Pharmacy Xpert is part of the Clinical Xpert suite of clinical workflow solutions. … Read More
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins expands expert clinical content in Nursing Procedures and Skills - May 4, 2011
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), a Wolters Kluwer Health business, has announced that it is expanding the expert clinical content in Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills to include 100 pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and 75 neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nursing procedures. The… Read More
SPARC-ACRL forum at ALA to focus on Berlin Open Access Declaration - May 4, 2011
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have announced that the upcoming SPARC-ACRL forum on emerging issues in scholarly communication will focus on expanding support for the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to… Read More
Korea University Library selects EBSCO Discovery Service for research support - May 4, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that the Korea University Library has selected the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) as its discovery solution. Korea University Library is the first academic library to adopt EDS in Korea. Librarians and e-resource administrators at Korea University… Read More
