American Medical Association selects DataSalon for a fully-integrated ‘single customer view’ - May 22, 2009
Data solutions provider DataSalon Ltd., UK, has announced that the American Medical Association, publisher of JAMA & Archives Journals, has adopted its web-based solution MasterVision to establish a complete 'single customer view'. Records for AMA members, journal subscribers and pay-per-view purchasers, as well as data from… Read More
Dear Subscribers - May 22, 2009
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University of Michigan and Google Inc. sign new digitisation deal - May 21, 2009
The University of Michigan has signed an agreement with internet search services provider Google Inc., US, to create digital copies of millions of University of Michigan library books and journals. The amended agreement, which strengthens library preservation efforts and increases the public's access to books, is… Read More
Springer archive moves to Central and Regional Library Berlin - May 21, 2009
The historical archive of scientific publishing house Springer will be kept by Berlin's Central and Regional Library (ZLB) in future. The move is the result of a donation agreement between Springer Science+Business Media and ZLB. The whole collection includes the correspondence archive and more than 15,000… Read More
US book publishing industry sees rise in on-demand sales, says Bowker report - May 21, 2009
Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, has released statistics on the US book publishing industry for 2008, compiled from its Books In Print database. Based on preliminary figures from domestic publishers, Bowker is projecting that US title output in 2008 decreased by 3.2 percent, with 275,232 new… Read More
Serials Solutions announces new XML federated search connection to Infobase eBooks - May 21, 2009
E-resource access and management services provider Serials Solutions, US, has announced that it is building a new XML federated search connection to Infobase eBooks, which span a wide range of core, curriculum-oriented subject areas from history, science and literature to geography, social issues, the arts, biographies,… Read More
