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
Thieme Chemistry releases Science of Synthesis 4.0.1 - October 7, 2014
Thieme Chemistry, Germany, has announced the release of Science of Synthesis 4.0.1 - the only full-text resource for methods and experimental procedures in synthetic organic chemistry. The new version, available as of October 6th, 2014, offers a range of new features as well as 13 new… Read More
PCG appoints Erika Valenti as Global Sales Director - October 6, 2014
Sales, marketing and research consultancy Publishers Communication Group (PCG) has announced that it has hired Erika Valenti as its new Global Sales Director, effective October 1. Based in the Boston office, Erika will lead the PCG's Content Sales team of dedicated publisher representatives in the… Read More
Ingram Content Group Inc. adds new tools to its CoreSource digital asset management platform - October 6, 2014
Ingram Content Group Inc. has added new tools to its CoreSource® digital asset management platform offered through Lightning Source Inc., that give publishers the ability to manage and distribute print book metadata and files worldwide. Publishers that use the CoreSource platform for e-book distribution can… Read More
The Yankalilla Library marks final SAPLN member to go live on SirsiDynix Symphony - October 6, 2014
SirsiDynix has announced that the final member of the South Australian Public Library Network (SAPLN) is prepared to go live with SirsiDynix Symphony. Yankalilla will mark the 77th SAPLN site to go live since the consortium's Symphony implementation began in 2012. With a complete Symphony integration—… 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
