EBSCO and BiblioLabs sign agreement to include metadata in EBSCO Discovery Service - July 25, 2013
Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced an agreement with BiblioLabs. The deal will make possible for more people to access high quality, historical content and enable libraries, museums and other institutions to make digital content from their internal repositories available to others. Metadata… Read More
IOP Publishing presents new e-books programme for the first time in Latin America - July 25, 2013
IOP Publishing (IOP), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Physics, presented its new ebooks programme for the first time in Latin America, showcasing unique features and benefits to librarians and scientists and encouraging regional authors to submit their own book ideas. During the… Read More
McGraw Hill Financial signs definitive agreement to sell Aviation Week to Penton - July 25, 2013
Financial intelligence company McGraw Hill Financial has signed a definitive agreement to sell Aviation Week to Penton, a privately held business information company. Terms of the all-cash transaction, which is expected to close shortly, were not disclosed. The transaction continues the execution of the Company's… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health adds multimedia enhancement to OvidSP’s search and discovery technology - July 25, 2013
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced a multimedia enhancement to the OvidSP medical research platform to aid in clinical research, practice and learning. Now researchers and healthcare practitioners using Ovid will have improved functionality to discover, download and export more than two million… Read More
AAP announces new initiative to rapidly advance implementation of EPUB 3 as the standard global distribution format for eBooks - July 25, 2013
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has announced its support for the establishment of EPUB 3 as the standard global distribution format for eBooks and has embarked on a new initiative designed to rapidly advance the format's implementation in the marketplace. The EPUB 3 Implementation… Read More
Alexander Street Press launches evidence-based acquisition - July 25, 2013
Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press, US, has announced a milestone agreement with the University of Dundee in Scotland that establishes the publisher as a key resource for evidence-based acquisition of library materials. Beginning this month, patrons of the University of Dundee's library will have unlimited… Read More
