Emerald acquires information management group ASLIB - April 7, 2010
Emerald Group Publishing, UK, has announced that MCB Group, its holding company, has acquired ASLIB, an association for information management. Emerald and ASLIB have been working closely together since 2001, when ASLIB’s collection of research journals, including Journal of Documentation and ASLIB Proceedings, was acquired by… Read More
Knovel redesigns user interface for AIChE members - April 7, 2010
Knovel, a web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools, has announced a re-designed user interface for members of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). AIChE members now have the ability to save and organise frequent searches, titles and content. Engineers who join… Read More
Cadmus unveils XML-to-EPUB conversion service for scholarly publishers - April 6, 2010
Content management and production services provider Cadmus Communications, US, has announced the release of an automated XML-to-EPUB conversion service. The service will provide digital content to EPUB-compliant e-book devices, such as the Apple iPad, for the scholarly publishing community. EPUB is an industry standard structure developed… Read More
Ingram to provide publishers with access to Apple’s iBookstore - April 6, 2010
Ingram Content Group Inc., US, has announced that Apple has selected Ingram as a preferred partner for helping publishers provide content to Apple's new iBookstore. Through CoreSource, Ingram's solution for the storage, management, and distribution of digital content, publishers will be able to submit eBooks to… Read More
OCLC adds new MARC Records for items in Google Books and Hathi Trust Digital collections to WorldCat - April 6, 2010
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, has announced that it is adding records to WorldCat that represent digitised books from the Google Books Library Project and the HathiTrust Digital Library to provide greater access to and increased visibility of these digitised collections.… Read More
CPM Resource Center launches web-based Clinical Practice Guidelines - April 6, 2010
The Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier firm engaged in developing clinical practice guidelines for healthcare, has launched its first web-based version of Point of Care Guidelines (http://www.cpmrc.com/). The online edition of its guidelines seeks to support new and emerging… Read More
