Polish Academy of Sciences expands availability of research, adopts OA model for 21 journals - January 18, 2011
Committees and Departments of the Polish Academy of Science, a scholarly research institution in Poland, has announced its decision to further expand availability of research by publishing 21 of its journals in the Open Access model. Versita has been chosen the technology and publishing services provider… Read More
Bahrain signs agreement with British National Archive to access digital documents - January 18, 2011
Bahrain has reportedly signed an agreement with the British National Archives to gain access to over 80 million digital documents. The deal was signed between the King Hamad Digital Library and the British National Archives. The agreement is one of many that have been signed with King Hamad Library… Read More
Twenty North Carolina public libraries form consortium to offer members a digital library - January 18, 2011
Twenty public libraries in North Carolina have reportedly formed a consortium to offer members a digital library. With the growing number of eReader owners, the library is offering a series of free workshops to teach patrons how to download eBooks using the library's free, online… Read More
Google acquires eBook Technologies to offer better digital reading experience - January 13, 2011
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, has reportedly acquired eBook Technologies, Inc., a US-based provider of end-to-end e-book technology. According to Google, this acquisition is aimed at delivering richer reading experiences on tablets, electronic readers and other portable devices. Financial terms… Read More
Ingram Content Group in deal with University of Michigan Press and the University Press of Kentucky for e-content management - January 13, 2011
Ingram Content Group Inc., US, has announced agreements with two university presses - the University of Michigan Press and the University Press of Kentucky - for e-content management. The university presses have selected Ingram's digital asset management platform, CoreSource, to archive and distribute materials to partners… Read More
Springer announces publishing partnership with French intensive care society - January 12, 2011
STM publisher Springer is set to publish two journals for the Société de Réanimation de Langue Française (SRLF), a French intensive care society. Starting in 2011, Springer will publish Réanimation, formerly published by Elsevier, and a new open access journal in English… Read More
ProQuest adds books from Dutch library to Early European Books project - January 12, 2011
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, UK, has announced that the company will digitise more than 30,000 rare early books from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the National Library of the Netherlands, capturing every volume in high-resolution colour scans. This is the third major European national library… Read More
Springer to make journal articles available via DeepDyve’s online rental service for scholarly publications - January 11, 2011
DeepDyve, a research engine for the Deep Web, has announced that STM publisher Springer has agreed to make journal articles from more than 100 journals in key subject areas such as biomedical, public health, and business and economics available through DeepDyve's online… Read More
Access Intelligence announces acquisition of healthcare media brand OR Manager - January 11, 2011
Business intelligence and integrated marketing solutions provider Access Intelligence (AI), US, and its Dorland Health division have acquired OR Manager, a media brand and events company serving operating room executives, managers and doctors. OR Manager's suite of publications, webinars, books and an annual conference will now… Read More
OCLC and Amigos form new partnership to deliver OCLC Web-scale Management Services to libraries - January 10, 2011
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, and Amigos Library Services have entered into a new partnership to provide libraries with expanded implementation, training and education services for OCLC's new Web-scale Management Services. With over 600 members, Amigos claims to be one of the largest consortia of libraries… Read More
