GSA working with GPO-Google partnership to offer free govt. publications online - April 8, 2011
The US General Services Administration (GSA) is working with the US Government Printing Office (GPO) and GPO's relationship with the Google Book Partner Program to make popular government publications available for free electronic download through Google. The programme is making available 100… Read More
New report investigates costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications - April 8, 2011
The Research Information Network (RIN), Research Libraries UK (RLUK), the Wellcome Trust, the Publishing Research Consortium (PRC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), have announced the publication of the report 'Heading for the open road: costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications'. This new… Read More
Legal Deposit Libraries welcome Government’s response to consultation on non-print legal deposit - April 8, 2011
The Legal Deposit Libraries have welcomed the Government's response to public consultation on the 'draft regulations and guidance for non-print legal deposit' and its commitment to deliver regulations for non-print content. The Legal Deposit Libraries comprise The British Library, The National Library of Scotland, The National… Read More
AAAS to work with HighWire Press and TEMIS to enhance search experience and linking of content - April 8, 2011
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced its decision to work with its ePublishing partner, HighWire Press, and US-based semantic content enrichment solutions provider TEMIS to offer a new, integrated, semantically fueled digital publishing… Read More
Global smartphone sales to hit 468 million in 2011, says Garner report - April 8, 2011
Technology research services firm Gartner, Inc., US, has released a report that says worldwide smartphone sales will reach 468 million units in 2011, a 57.7 percent increase from 2010. By the end of 2011, Android will move to become the most popular operating system (OS) worldwide… Read More
Ingram Content Group and O’Reilly Media announce total inventory management initiative - April 8, 2011
Ingram Content Group Inc., US, and publisher O'Reilly Media have announced an innovative total inventory management initiative. The initiative will seek to integrate O'Reilly Media's technology content with Ingram's worldwide print, distribution and inventory management solutions. Through the use of real-time… Read More
