Elsevier adds five new subject areas to its Legacy eBook Collection on ScienceDirect - October 7, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has added five new subject areas to its Legacy eBook Collection on ScienceDirect. The Legacy Collection consists of digitised, classic scholarly book content, now including nearly 13,000 books. The new subject areas are arts and humanities; computer science; economics, econometrics and finance; immunology… Read More
New whitepaper offers recommendations to improve usage, discovery and access of e-content in libraries - October 6, 2014
A group of professionals from libraries, content providers and OCLC have published 'Success Strategies for Electronic Content Discovery and Access,' a white paper that identifies data quality issues in the content supply chain and offers practical recommendations for improved usage, discovery and access of e-content in… Read More
EBSCO Information Services releases Serials Price Projection for 2015 - October 3, 2014
The 2015 Serials Price Projection Report from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) advises that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic/medical libraries are expected to be in the range of 5 to 7 percent (before currency impact). EBSCO releases the Serials Price Projections based… Read More
Unbound Medicine launches major upgrade to uPubTM publishing platform - October 3, 2014
Unbound Medicine, a US-based provider of knowledge management solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced a major upgrade to uPub, the digital content management and authoring module of the Unbound™ Platform. With this software release, Unbound Medicine adds a host of new features and tools to… Read More
Elsevier releases Pure 5.1, makes Elsevier Research Intelligence tools Pure and SciVal interoperable - October 3, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the release of Pure 5.1, an enhanced version of its leading research information management system, and part of the Elsevier Research Intelligence portfolio of integrated tools and services. The release of Pure 5.1 improves its benchmark and research impact… Read More
Facing up to the challenges of education and culture policy – Education at the Frankfurt Book Fair - October 3, 2014
Digitisation and globalisation have made it necessary to rethink our education and cultural policies. Technology companies like Apple, Microsoft and Google are investing more and more in educational activities, while trends such as massive open online courses (MOOCs) are bringing into question the need for classrooms and face-to-face exchanges with… Read More
