eTextbook aggregator Reference Tree, UK, has announced its continued expansion with the inclusion of key titles from four leading academic publishers - SAGE, Palgrave MacMillan, Packt Publishing and Princeton Architectural Press. Over the last 12 months, the service has grown to include 14 of the world's main textbook publishers in its innovative chapter rental student purchase model.
Available immediately will be 24 titles from SAGE covering business and education; 27 titles from Palgrave MacMillan covering social sciences in addition to nearly 40 titles from Packt Publishing. 250 titles from Princeton Architectural Press will be available in the coming weeks.
For the first time, publishers SAGE and Palgrave MacMillan will deliver their content in chapter by chapter format, available for purchase online. Students of business and education disciplines will be able to access core textbooks from SAGE including Education for Sustainable Development; Essentials of Business Research; Marketing Theory, Second Edition; and The SAGE Handbook of Philosophy of Education. Social science students will be able to access essential reading titles from Palgrave MacMillan including Assessment in Counselling; Challenging Social Work; Family Life and Family Support; Foundations of Psychotherapy and Working With Eating Disorders.
Similarly, titles including Unity Game Development Essentials, Unity 3D Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide, jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide, NetBeans Platform 6.9 Developer's Guide, Moodle 2.0 First Look and JBoss AS 5 Development from Packt Publishing will be available alongside approximately 250 titles from Princeton Architectural Press. Packt claims to be the first publisher to offer computer science content through Reference Tree, opening up the benefits of purchasing textbooks online and by the chapter to computer science students across the UK.
SAGE, Palgrave MacMillan, Packt Publishing and Princeton Architectural Press join a wealth of top publishers who already deliver content through Reference Tree. These include Cambridge University Press, Taylor & Francis, Hodder Education, Elsevier Science & Technology, Learning Matters, AVA Academia, Scion Publishing and McGraw Hill.
Reference Tree offers students a cost-effective way of purchasing their course materials - by the chapter, online. Designed to address the changing dynamics of study and learning in today's digital climate, the service allows students to purchase just the portions of the textbook they require to efficiently complete their coursework.
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