EBSCO adds thousands of e-books to eBook Academic Collection - January 28, 2013
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that thousands of e-books have been added to the eBook Academic Collection, increasing the number of e-books to more than 112,000. The collection supplies full-text e-books covering a broad spectrum of academic subjects from technology, science and… Read More
Springer launches ‘Springer Book Archives’ at ALA MW - January 28, 2013
STM publisher Springer announced the launch of the Springer Book Archives (SBA) at the 2013 American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting (ALA MW), offering online access to 37,000 historic, English-language eBooks. The SBA will be completed by the end of this year, and when finished researchers, students… Read More
More than 90 international university presses now preserving e-books with Portico - January 28, 2013
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that it is now preserving e-books from more than 90 university presses in 6 countries. This includes Cambridge University Press and university press e-books hosted by JSTOR (Books at JSTOR), Project Muse (UPCC Collections), and Oxford University… Read More
Ex Libris launches self-registration service, expands support for OA - January 28, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has launched a self-registration service enabling institutions to easily add the contents of their institutional repository (IR) to the Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic materials and thus expand the breadth of IR content in the index. Institutional… Read More
AIP and IOP Publishing create new thesaurus for astronomy community - January 25, 2013
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and IOP Publishing, a non-profit scientific publisher, have jointly announced the creation of a new astronomy thesaurus called the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) for the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The UAT is expected to help improve future information discovery for… Read More
Ingram adds new content access model to MyiLibrary e-content platform - January 24, 2013
Ingram Content Group Inc., US, has added a new content access model to its MyiLibrary e-content platform to provide libraries greater flexibility in e-book lending. Access Model, MyiLibrary's latest model, enables libraries to purchase a set of access credits for an e-book and lend it… Read More
