CDL announces new POD and ebook distribution/sales service for books and journals published in eScholarship - October 31, 2012
The California Digital Library has announced a new print-on-demand (POD) and ebook distribution/sales service for books and journals published in eScholarship, the University of California’s open access (OA) publishing platform. This service will enable publishing units within UC to develop hybrid OA business models for their… Read More
Serials Solutions Summon Service expands Japanese-language content with Japan Medical Abstracts Society - October 30, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, and the Japan Medical Abstracts Society (JAMAS) have improved access to Japanese-language article abstracts in Ichushi-Web through the Summon web-scale discovery service. The inclusion of metadata from the JAMAS abstracting and indexing database for more than 5,800 journals covering medicine, dentistry… Read More
ProQuest and ACRL call for applications for ProQuest Support Staff Scholarships - October 30, 2012
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) are calling for applicants for the ProQuest Support Staff Scholarships that will send eight library professionals to the 2013 ACRL Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 10-13, 2013. The scholarships are… Read More
Penguin, Random House merged to create global consumer publishing organisation - October 30, 2012
Two European media companies Pearson and Bertelsmann have announced an agreement to create the world's leading consumer publishing organisation by combining Penguin and Random House. The combination is stated to bring together two of the world's leading English language publishers, with highly complementary skills and strengths.… Read More
IOP Publishing launches article level metrics on its journal platform IOPscience - October 30, 2012
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has announced the launch of article level metrics on its journal platform IOPscience. Article level metrics are increasingly being used by authors and readers to view the wider impact of an article beyond traditional citations. The… Read More
National Library of Australia selects Tessella Safety Deposit Box - October 29, 2012
Digital preservation solutions provider Tessella, UK, has announced that it has won the tender process with the National Library of Australia for the Digital Library Infrastructure Redevelopment project. The National Library of Australia has a contract to purchase the Tessella Safety Deposit Box (SDB) as… Read More
