Apple introduces iBooks 2 textbooks app for iPad - January 20, 2012
Computer and software firm Apple, Inc., US, has announced iBooks 2 for iPad, featuring iBooks textbooks, an entirely new kind of textbook. iBooks textbooks offer iPad users full-screen textbooks with interactive animations, diagrams, photos, videos and easy navigation. According to the company, iBooks textbooks can be… Read More
MathType works with Apple’s new ebook authoring app for Mac - January 20, 2012
Enterprise software vendor Design Science, Inc., US, has announced that US-based computer and software firm Apple Inc. has chosen MathType as the equation editor for its new iBooks Author application for Mac. Authors will now be able to create ebooks that include mathematical notation which can… Read More
Gale and National Geographic in deal to provide online archive of over 100 years of National Geographic magazine - January 20, 2012
Educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, and National Geographic, a non-profit scientific and educational organisation, has announced an agreement to provide an online archive of more than 100 years of National Geographic magazine. Available to libraries this spring, National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994 will… Read More
SpringerLink now offers over 50,000 eBooks - January 20, 2012
STM publisher Springer has announced that its online platform SpringerLink now offers more than 50,000 eBooks. SpringerLink provides electronic access to scientific and specialist journals, eBooks, book series and reference works. The publications cover topics from 12 subject collections such as mathematics, computer science, medicine, engineering,… Read More
AAAS not endorsing Research Works Act - January 20, 2012
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science, has reaffirmed its support for the current public access policy of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). Contrary to recent news reports, AAAS does not endorse… Read More
SPIE partners with CLOCKSS to preserve digital library content - January 20, 2012
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced a partnership with the CLOCKSS Archive to preserve the content of the SPIE Digital Library, a collection of optics and photonics literature, in the CLOCKSS dark archive. By archiving with CLOCKSS, SPIE has committed to… Read More
