Google to end eBooks partnership with independent booksellers - April 6, 2012
Representatives of Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, have reportedly contacted the American Booksellers Association and Powell's Books to announce that the company would end its Google eBooks reseller programme worldwide. In February, it had seemed as if independent booksellers were getting a reprieve when… Read More
Amazon launches Kindle Store with Spanish language e-books - April 6, 2012
Online books retailer Amazon.com, Inc., US, has announced a new Spanish-language e-book store within the Amazon.com Kindle Store, 'eBooks Kindle en Español'. It offers additional features for Spanish-speaking customers in the US, like extensive help pages, and phone and e-mail customer support… Read More
ScienceAlerts.com adds Biological Sciences category - April 6, 2012
ScienceAlerts.com, a Web 2.0 social network to discover and share scholarly content, has announced that the latest addition to this natural sciences website is the Biological Sciences Category. The new Biological Sciences category currently features 520,658 stories largely derived from 984 scientific biology publishing sources. ScienceAlerts.com's Biological… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health utilises CCC’s RightsLink Premium to automate book publication permissions process - April 5, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that its Professional & Education unit has implemented Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.'s RightsLink Premium to manage copyright permissions for its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) book publications. RightsLink services are already available for LWW journals.… Read More
Nature Publishing Group releases linked data platform - April 5, 2012
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has joined the linked data community by opening up access to its publication data via a linked data platform. NPG's Linked Data Platform is available at http://data.nature.com. The platform includes more than 20 million… Read More
Gannett Co. selects TEMIS to provide semantic indexing and content enrichment solution - April 4, 2012
TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, has signed a license and services agreement for its flagship software solution, Luxid, with Gannett Co., Inc., an international media and marketing solutions company. Gannett has chosen to deploy TEMIS' Luxid semantic tagging… Read More
