Kno Inc. provides new platform for Elsevier’s Pageburst digital books - July 25, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that education software company Kno Inc. will provide its latest platform option for one of Elsevier’s lines of digital books. Pageburst, which encompasses Elsevier’s nursing and health professions books in a digital format, will now offer even more flexibility and… Read More
Knovel adds Yaws’ Critical Property Data for Chemical Engineers and Chemists to its Critical Content line - July 24, 2012
Knovel, provider of a Web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools, has announced the addition of Yaws' Critical Property Data for Chemical Engineers and Chemists to its growing Critical Content line. This new interactive database is exclusively available to Knovel customers. Knovel… Read More
McGraw-Hill Higher Education’s LearnSmart named among the best products and services in education technology - July 24, 2012
McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a unit of McGraw-Hill Education, US, has announced that its industry-leading adaptive learning solution, McGraw-Hill LearnSmart, has been selected as a winner of eSchool Media's 2012-2013 Readers' Choice Awards in the category of Higher Education. The recipients of the Readers' Choice Awards,… Read More
Loss of bookstores does not translate into growth of e-books, says Simba report - July 24, 2012
Media forecast and research firm Simba Information, US, has released the fourth edition of the 'Trends in Trade Book Retailing' report. The report compiles data from multiple sources to confirm what Simba anticipated in the third edition: that the loss of bookstores would not translate into… Read More
University of Manitoba Libraries selects Ex Libris’ next-generation library management and discovery services - July 24, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the University of Manitoba, a Canadian member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), has selected the Alma unified resource management solution and the Primo discovery and delivery solution. The University of Manitoba Libraries… Read More
IEEE forms study group to explore next-generation IEEE 802.3 BASE-T - July 24, 2012
Professional association IEEE, US, has announced the formation of the IEEE 802.3 Next-Generation BASE-T Study Group. The new group is designed to measure industry interest and needs in the next generation of the IEEE 802.3 BASE-T family of technologies for Ethernet transmission over twisted-pair cabling. … Read More
