Ingram adds over 50,000 titles and new functionality to its MyiLibrary e-book platform - July 1, 2013
Ingram Content Group Inc., a US-based provider of physical and digital services to the book industry, has announced that it has grown its MyiLibrary platform, adding more than 50,000 titles and new functionality to meet the changing needs of today’s libraries. More than 50,000 titles… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 1, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (On the Likelihood of Academia “Taking Back” Scholarly Publishing); Joe Wikert (The content concierge: Curation and personalization, not discovery); Mike Shatzkin (Publisher margins today may be enviable, but it will be a big challenge to keep them that… Read More
ORCID using Ringgold as Registration Agency for ISNI Institutional Identifiers - June 28, 2013
ORCID, a non-profit organisation that provides an open registry of unique identifiers for researchers, has entered into an agreement with Ringgold to provide its database of institutional entities and associated unique institutional identifiers, in the form of Ringgold IDs and the forthcoming ISNI numbers. These unique… Read More
Elsevier announces inaugural issue of Health Care: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation - June 28, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the publication of the first issue of Health Care: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation. Health Care communicates cutting edge research on innovation in health care delivery, focusing specifically on payment reform, patient-centered innovation, quality and process improvement,… Read More
ProQuest celebrates 75th anniversary of Eugene Power’s landmark project to capture books indexed in British Libraries’ Short Title Catalog on microfilm - June 28, 2013
Information giant ProQuest is celebrating the 75th anniversary of Eugene Power's landmark project to capture the books indexed in the British Libraries' Short Title Catalog on microfilm. The work launched Power's company University Microfilms, Inc. (UMI), which would later become an essential business within the ProQuest… Read More
Scientific American Science in Action Award winner announced - June 28, 2013
Science magazine Scientific American has announced the winners of the second annual Scientific American Science in Action Award, powered by the Google Science Fair. Elif Bilgin from Turkey, was declared the winner of the second annual Scientific American Science in Action Award. Bilgin won for her… Read More
