Amazon offers Kindle Textbook Rental initiative for students - July 19, 2011
Online books retailer Amazon.com, Inc., US, has announced the launch of Kindle Textbook Rental. Students can now expect to save up to 80 percent off textbook list prices by renting from the Kindle Store. Tens of thousands of textbooks are available for the 2011 school year… Read More
EC seeks public views on access and preservation of digital scientific information - July 19, 2011
The European Commission (EC) recently launched a public consultation on access to, and preservation of, digital scientific information. This is part of an initiative of Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice President for the Digital Agenda, and Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for Research and Innovation. It is… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education unveils single sign-on institutional access service - July 19, 2011
McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a unit of McGraw-Hill Education, US, has announced the launch of McGraw-Hill Campus. The new institutional service seeks to provide faculty with single sign-on access to all of McGraw-Hill's course content, digital tools and other learning resources from any… Read More
Thieme launches customisable web-based tool for faculty to prepare dissection guides for students - July 19, 2011
STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced the launch of Thieme Dissector. Thieme Dissector claims to be a first of its kind, completely customisable, web-based tool for faculty to prepare perfect dissection guides for their students. The Thieme Dissector is organised by body region… Read More
Reference Tree announces continued expansion, includes key titles from four academic publishers - July 19, 2011
eTextbook aggregator Reference Tree, UK, has announced its continued expansion with the inclusion of key titles from four leading academic publishers - SAGE, Palgrave MacMillan, Packt Publishing and Princeton Architectural Press. Over the last 12 months, the service has grown to include… Read More
Dr. Efrat Shadmi and Prof. Leiyu Shi named co-Editors-in-Chief of International Journal for Equity in Health - July 19, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the appointment of Dr Efrat Shadmi from the University of Haifa and Professor Leiyu Shi from the Johns Hopkins University as co-Editors-in-Chief of International Journal for Equity in Health. Dr Shadmi is a Lecturer at the Cheryl… Read More
