Springer celebrates 10,000th MyCopy purchase - May 30, 2012
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, recently celebrated the 10,000th MyCopy purchase by a researcher at Auraria Library (library.auraria.edu), an academic library serving the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver and Community College of Denver. As a way to recognise this milestone, the… Read More
New print edition of the Nursing2013 Drug Handbook now available - May 29, 2012
Information and point-of-care solutions provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced the availability of the new print edition of the Nursing2013 Drug Handbook, the best-selling drug reference for nurses. First published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) in 1980, the Nursing Drug Handbook… Read More
Opening up Archives project receives additional funding - May 29, 2012
Opening up Archives, The National Archives' project to tackle skills shortages in the wider archives sector, has been allocated additional funding of over £250,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The extension grant awarded as part of HLF's Skills for the Future programme will guarantee… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health’s UpToDate featured in current issue of the Global Public Health journal - May 28, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that UpToDate, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, was featured in the current issue of the Global Public Health journal. The article, Health care workers in Africa access a broad range of topics using evidence-based… Read More
Digital media is preferred studying mode for college students, says CourseSmart survey - May 24, 2012
Digital course materials supplier CourseSmart LLC, US, has announced the results of a survey revealing college students' growing reliance on technology. The survey of more than 500 currently enrolled college students found that nearly all college students (98 percent) who own a device have used it… Read More
New ALA report examines critical issues underlying equitable access to digital content - May 24, 2012
The American Library Association (ALA) has released a new report examining critical issues underlying equitable access to digital content through the nation's libraries. In the report, titled 'E-content: The Digital Dialogue,' authors explore an unprecedented and splintered landscape in which several major publishers refuse to sell… Read More
