Reed Elsevier restructuring operations to save £100 million annually - December 18, 2007
Publisher Reed Elsevier is reportedly merging back offices across its three operating divisions to achieve annual savings of £100 million. Following the restructuring, the business units will be purely customer-facing activities, including product development, sales and marketing. The rest will be integrated. The programme, internally referred… Read More
Columbia University Libraries joins Google Book Search Library project - December 18, 2007
Internet search services provider Google, Inc. and Columbia University Libraries have signed an agreement to digitise a large number of the Libraries' books in the public domain and make them available online. The project, which is one of several collaborations between Google and major research libraries, will assess and review… Read More
Emerald to launch Emerald Backfiles at ALA Midwinter conference - December 18, 2007
Academic and professional publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced the launch of Emerald Backfiles in conjunction with the ALA Midwinter conference, to be held January 11-16, 2008 in Philadelphia. Emerald is releasing the digitisation of the full archive of its journal titles in business,… Read More
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OCLC conducting pilot project on capturing metadata from publishers - December 17, 2007
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, has announced that it is conducting a pilot project to explore the viability and efficiency of capturing metadata from publishers and vendors upstream. Further, it plans to enhance that metadata in WorldCat, an online resource for… Read More
ASME unveils digital library on hosting service Scitation - December 17, 2007
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and online sci-tech publishing and journal hosting service provider Scitation recently announced the initial rollout of the comprehensive new ASME Digital Library (http://www.asmedl.org). The ASME Digital Library consolidates the Society's numerous… Read More
